SSRS URL Access passing a parameter that has a dataset - ssrs-2012

I am trying to build an url to make the job of going to the SSRS page a bit faster and to eliminate all the input a user has to do (he already did it in an other program.
When I use this url:
http://localhost/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/folder/subfolder/reportname&rs:Command=Render&customerId=1000002
I can't fill out the parameter that has query where the default values of the parameters are found in the database, when i remove the query behind the parameter the textbox is filled out and the report is working as expected, i am sure the value of custimerId is in the database
How can I solve this?

I found it.
Data i got back from the database contained some trailing spaces. After removing those it worked like a charm.

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SSRS Report Parameters Interactive

I have a report that requires 3 parameters, all 3 has q query to pre populate them using a dataset for each, so the under their properties the available values is selected with the query. Default were also set to use the same query. This work fine.
My problem is when the user of the report wanted to enter the values themselves rather than going into the list populated by the query. Users know the value that they wanted to enter so it's faster for them to enter rather than select. SSRS report seems not to give you the ability to enter if you have set the available values and default values for some reason. Is their a way to go around this please?
Many thanks.
There is one straight forward way to use comma separated multi value parameter rather than list where user enters input.
Below link explains in detail, but I am quite sure you do not want to stick to below solution.
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3479/how-to-use-a-multi-valued-comma-delimited-input-parameter-for-an-ssrs-report/
Another thing you could do is keep your multi value parameter as list as it is and create a text input parameter.
Now if user want to simply choose from list fair enough you will have to handle second parameter as null because user chose from list.
Then on your dataset check and apply filter as 2nd parameter value as not null.
Same goes if user does text input then multi value parameter as not null.

JMeter - Need to submit POST data but I only wish to modify a single field

I'm running some JMeter tests for editing a field. If I use the JMeter HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder, I can get an accurate representation of the page and edits I made.
It creates a HTTP POST request with a parameter for every field, checkbox and dropdown on the page. I only really care about modifying ONE of them.
My problem is I can't just remove all the other parameters from the POST data because the page interprets this as if I removed all of them from the page (and then complains that there's missing data). So I'm left with trying to obtain the current values for the remaining editable fields and checkboxes so that I can re-submit them when I only want to modify a single field.
For an example, imagine I'm submitting some user data with fields for Name, Email and Address. I want to change the name by adding a 1 to the end of it and leave the other two fields as they are.
My thoughts for accomplishing this:
1) Use XPath to try to get the values shown on the page, store them all in variables and re-submit them in the post request. This is messy and also very difficult as the page is shown in a pop-up window, adding to the complexity of it.
2) Query the database for all the information and re-submit it. Seems like a lot of overhead, plus the data isn't freely available .. I'd rather not have to try to do this.
3) Use some other element of JMeter I'm not aware of to obtain the specific element data from the page. Maybe some listener I haven't figured out yet? If I could pull the parameters from the page and save them, that would be VERY convenient.
4) Somehow submit a POST request with only one field, specifying that I do not wish to clear out the remaining fields, I just want to leave them alone. I will freely admit that I am not super familiar with web applications so there may be a very obvious reason as to why this can't be done (or it's dependent on how its handled by the back-end of the application).
Thoughts?
From the whole post, I understand that you want to parameterise a field, where each time different value will be passed.
If my understanding is correct, the answer lies in CSV Dataset Config, where you can pass the values from a CSV file.
From your Example:
For an example, imagine I'm submitting some user data with fields for
Name, Email and Address. I want to change the name by adding a 1 to
the end of it and leave the other two fields as they are
To achieve this:
Steps to follows:
Create a csv file. fill the names as follows:
names
name1
name2
name3
name4
names is the column header and remaining are values.
Add CSV Dataset Config to your Test Plan.
Specify the file path.
replace the value in the name field in HTTP Post request as ${names}. that's it.

ORDS Using lower() to parameters after calling a plsql procedure

I'm trying to call a procedure from the URL from APEX, and I need the parameter's name to preserve the given case. For some reason I'm getting all the names in lower case and not as I wrote them.
For example:
<MyHost>/ords/!schema.procedure?PARAM1=value1&paRam2=VALUE2&Param3=Value3
But I'm getting the following:
param1=value1&param2=VALUE2&param3=Value3
As you can see, all the names have been changed to lowercase and I have not requested such change.
Is it something related to the way the ORDS is configured? Could this be re-configured?
Thanks a lot for your time an answer.

How do I set an SSRS Parameter that doesn't have a value to something else?

I have an SSRs Report with a parameter that gets information from SQL. If it hasn't found anything, at the moment it is just empty. Is there anyway to set it such that if it's empty it will return a different value, say "Please Extend Date Ranges" and disable the parameter?
If you using it to fill it using the SQL and using it for only internal purposes then there is option to make the parameter internal and it will be hidden and it will does not prompt the user.
Make a change to the stored procedure or query that populates the parameter. Include some logic so that if no results are returned by the query you are using now, it adds a row with the default label you want.
But no, you can't disable the parameter dynamically, I don't believe.

Using parameters in reports for VIsual Studio 2008

This is my first attempt to create a Visual Studio 2008 report using parameters. I have created the dataset and the report. If I run it with a hard-coded filter on a column the report runs fine. When I change the filter to '?' I keep getting this error:
No overload for method 'Fill' takes '1' argument
Obviously I am missing some way to connect the parameter on the dataset to a report parameter. I have defined a report parameter using the Report/Report Parameter screen. But how does that report parameter get tied to the dataset table parameter? Is there a special naming convention for the parameter?
I have Googled this a half dozen times and read the msdn documentation but the examples all seem to use a different approach (like creating a SQL query rather then a table based dataset) or entering the parameter name as "=Parameters!name.value" but I can't figure out where to do that. One msdn example suggestted I needed to create some C# code using a SetParameters() method to make the connection. Is that how it is done?
If anyone can recommend a good walk-through I'd appreciate it.
Edit:
After more reading it appears I don't need report parameters at all. I am simply trying to add a parameter to the database query. So I would create a text box on the form, get the user's input, then apply that parameter programmatically to the fill() argument list. The report parameter on the other hand is an ad-hoc value generally entered by a user that you want to appear on the report. But there is no relationship between report parameters and query/dataset parameters. Is that correct?
My last assumption appears to be correct. After 30 years in the industry my bias is to assume a report parameter actually filters the SQL data using the given parameter. This is not the case with .rdlc files used by Report Viewer. These report parameters have nothing to do with fetching data. Sounds like this was a design decision on Microsoft's part to completely separate the display of data from the fetching of data, hence, Report Viewer has no knowledge of how data may be fetched. Best way for me to conceptualize this dichotomy is to think of Report Parameters more as Report Labels, quite distinct from the dataset query parameters.

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