title: Pentaho Report Designer: Passing list of values as parameters to report
body: <p>Report Objective: Performance analysis of players by statistics comparison</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://i.stack.imgur.com/Clgp5.jpg" rel="nofollow">Desired Report Layout</a></p>
  
  <p>Please refer to the layout and read on. The player names need to be added from a list which could be anything like entry text box, multicheck box, dropdown etc. If I select Jake Tyler in this list, the report should refresh and show me the statistics from him. Then when I select Adam Smith, he should show up as the next entry below Jake with his respective stats.</p>
  
  <p>I know how to pass individual players as parameters in the query using Pentaho parameters and tagging them in the condition using SQL as: </p>
  
  <pre><code> 'where  PlayerName = ${playername}'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I need to know how to pass multiple player names in a similar fashion to generate this report using multivalue String parameters.</p>
  
  <p>Can you please please guide me on how to do this? I have heard things like x-actions which could work but I don't know how to use that. I am sure this will help a lot of people who are trying to achieve something similar which might seem complex to them. </p>