I have been faced with a similar problem and by using passing &rs:Format=EXCEL it will automatically render a report to excel, i.e.

http://localhost/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?%2Reports%2fDailyReport&rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=EXCEL

If you wanted to have the fuinctionality...

There is no way to mask entries into a parameter field and additionally any parameter values get passed in clear text and are logged.

I would suggest looking at integrated...

John,

toolmans solution is really useful for putting field data in to a header and something I will be using. However you can add the 'value' form of a parameter into...

I have been working with this problem today. i wanted to let the user specify a particular record or return all of them. I was able to make this work...