Parameters in Report Server

There is a brown bar in Report Server that holds the report parameters. This bar seems to be CLOSED by default. Is there a way to set the default so that the parameter bar is OPEN and the users can see the parameters?

Thanks.

I don't think you can set this as a default, and I don't suspect your users will be browsing the reportserver virtual directory. So assuming you are providing a link of some sorts (throu email or an application) you can control the parameters area using the rc: Prameters URL query string parameter.

The following is an excerpt from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms152835.aspx

Use this parameter To

Toolbar

Show or hide the toolbar. If the value of this parameter is false, all remaining options are ignored. If you omit this parameter, the toolbar is automatically displayed for rendering formats that support it. The default of this parameter is true.

Parameters

Show or hide the parameters area of the toolbar. If you set this parameter to true, the parameters area of the toolbar is displayed. If you set this parameter to false, the parameters area is not displayed and cannot be displayed by the user. If you set this parameter to a value of Collapsed, the parameters area will not be displayed, but can be toggled by the end user. The default value of this parameter is true.

Zoom

Set the report zoom value as an integer percentage or a string constant. Standard string values include Page Width and Whole Page. This parameter is ignored by versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer earlier than Internet Explorer 5.0 and all non-Microsoft browsers. The default value of this parameter is 100.

Section

Set which page in the report to display. Any value that is greater than the number of pages in the report displays the last page. Any value that is less than 0 displays page 1 of the report. The default value of this parameter is 1.

StartFind

Specify the first section to search. The default value of this parameter is the first page of the report.

EndFind

Set the number of the last page to use in the search. For example, a value of 5 indicates that the last page to be searched is page 5 of the report. The default value is the number of the current page. Use this parameter in conjunction with the StartFind parameter.

FallbackPage

Set the number of the page to display if a search or a document map selection fails. The default value is the number of the current page.

GetImage

Get a particular icon for the HTML Viewer user interface.

Icon

Get the icon of a particular rendering extension.

Stylesheet

Specify a style sheet to be applied to the HTML Viewer.

|||Right now I'm just pointing my browser to "reports". What troubles me is that this says Parameters is defaulted to true and in my browser it is not. I have never changed any defaults that I know of.