Integrating Reporting Services into Custom Applications - Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services - page 493

View the Customer Product List by Category report, as shown in Figure 12-4.

Figure 12-4

The URL contains the following contents:

❑ Path to the resource:

%2fProfessional+SQL+Reporting+Services%2fProduct+List+Categories

❑ Command to retrieve the resource content: rs:Command=Render

Using URLs is the easiest and most convenient way to embed Reporting Services reports in your applica-
tions. You can simply create your own links that point to the various report URLs. You are probably
saying to yourself, “That's nice! I can access a report, but how do I pass parameters and change the output
format?'' In the next section, you'll take a look at all the possible parameters you can pass through the
URL, including setting report parameters and output format.

Reporting Services URL Parameters
Now that you have seen the basics of obtaining items from your Report Server using URLs, let's take a
look at passing some parameters. The next few sections will move through how parameters are passed
to Reporting Services and what values for these parameters are available. The majority of the parameter