Adding ‘All’ to a report drop-down list

There is a problem when you configure a report parameter to ‘Accept Multiply Items’, in that it won’t work with a stored procedure (SP).

One work-around is to only Accept Single Items, but make one of them ‘All’, like this …

1) Create a separate SP to populate the parameter and add an ‘All’ option …

SELECT 'All' CustId
UNION
SELECT DISTINCT CustomerId
FROM SomeTable
ORDER BY CustId

2) Then amend the main SP by joining to SomeTable, and adding a CASE statement in the WHERE clause, like so …

WHERE SomeTable.CustomerId = CASE WHEN @CustId != 'All' THEN @CustId ELSE SomeTable.CustomerId END

Which translates as …

WHERE SomeTable.CustomerId = SomeTable.CustomerId

… when ‘All’ is selected (which will let everything through), or …

WHERE SomeTable.CustomerId = @CustId

… where ‘All’ is Not selected.

This allows the user to select All or a single value.

However, if you need to select more than one value but not all values – you will need another approach. You will need to use a split-string function.