I am enhancing a report in SSRS. This is only my third report so I still have a lot to learn and many questions. I am googling how to get parameters to run the report from a dropdownlist.

This (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...in-ssrs-report) is in answer to someone's question who wanted to populate a dropdown instead of a textbox. Sort of like what I want to do, but I am starting with nothing rather than with an existing textbox. Actually, now that I think of it I could start with a textbox, if that would be easier... I will look into that, too. But my problem is that answers to questions posed online assume a certain knowledge which I don't yet have, and below for example when he says "right click the parameter", is this in Visual Studio and if so, where exactly? And if the parameter doesn't exist yet, how do I add it? (If you know of a link that explains all this that would be a big help, so I don't have to keep posting my questions).

Right click the parameter

Select "Available Values" section

Click the "Get values from a query" option

Select the appropriate dataset and fields