date parmeter converts into drop down

I am working in SSRS 2005. I have three parameters on the reports

Parmeter 1 is Date filter which is drop down and values are MTD,QTD,YTD...

2nd and 3rd parameters are fromdate and todate which are datetime parameters.

When user select let's say MTD from parameter1 then i have Stored procedure which populate the fromdate paramter with 1st date of the month and, todate populate the todays's date. The problem i am facing is the moment these date parameters get populated it converts into drop down. i want these date parameters should be still datetime so user can select the date. The value i am passing to these parameters are datetime type( Now()) .Still the date parameters controls are showing as dropdown. I don't know how to handle it. Please help me if you have faced this kind of problem.

Thanks,

Ranjay

Dropdown appears because parameter's "available values" option is set. In this case, it is not possible to enter value. Try to set default value instead of available values.|||Lev,thanks for your reply. I know that it will work for default but i want to populate the date parameters based on some other parameters selcted in report. Default value just shows one time. it doesn't change the value next time when i change the other parameter.|||Default value can be query based.|||

That's true but problem with default value is it's not getting refreshed when my other parameter change. Default value is set only the first time when it initialize. I don't know if i was able to explain the problem properly

|||

Check this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1097549&SiteID=1