Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, 2nd Edition

8.2. Reports Within Reports

Thus far, we have placed report items within report items and data regions within data regions. In this section, we look at putting whole reports inside one another. This is done using the subreport report item; the only item in the Toolbox that we have not yet used.

The subreport item is simply a placeholder in a report. It sits in the parent report and shows the space to be occupied by another report when the parent report is run. Nothing is special about a report placed in a subreport item. Any report can be used as a subreport.

The report placed in the subreport can even contain parameters. These parameter values can be passed from the parent report to the subreport. Any field value, parameter value, or expression ...