You may recall that when we created our report definition’s SQL, we embedded in it (within the MetaSQL tags ‘<?’
and ‘?>
’ parameters that will accept user defined values at run time. After we open an OpenRPT report definition, we must define these parameters and set their values before generating the report. The report definition we defined contains two parameters:
sold_param
active_param
Let's look at how a parameter is defined and a value assigned.