Is there a way to dynamically load a parameter list in Crystal Reports? The reason I ask is because I have tired to load the parameter from a comboBox, but get this automated Parameter Dialog no matter what in c#. Then, I decided to load the parameters from a file because I saw a feature in the parameter dialog that allowed this. This was good.....BUT ITS NOT DYNAMIC!! I only get the list that was loaded when I used the parameter setup dialog. What is going on here? There seems to be no good way to load dynamic data to the parameter fields without a true database. I just want the user to be able to load the selected parameter from live data....not data that was set up during development. It seems any way I turn, I am having a tough time getting data to the parameter fields from real world lists generated during use....not at development time. ANy one have any ideas? I do not want to hear about database queries, as I have a CSV file. I will try and use the ODBC style SQL commands if there is no way of doing this, but it seems very basic. I cannot believe that there is no solution for dynamic loading of these parameters that is bug free. I have tried the Examples in the WRox Crystal Reports book. But they do not work for C#.

Eric

See my reply to the "Passing Parameters to Report" thread in the forum. You can pass anything you like (as long as it has a string format that can be used in the queries). I have custom "search" dialogs to find entities on the system and then only pass in their primary key but also have used the DatePicker control and passed in it's value as a string with no problem!