title: SSRS Report Content Blank
body: <p>I am having a problem running reports in Sql Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 R2. </p>
  
  <p>After setting up the site, creating a few users, and uploading a few reports, I select a report to run, enter my parameters, and wait for the report to render...but nothing happens. I see the "Loading" animation for a brief amount of time (varies between one and ten seconds irrespective of the report), but it soon disappears, leaving nothing except for the parameters at the top of the page. No report content is rendered at all.</p>
  
  <p>This occurs on every report that I deploy to the SSRS instance regardless of size, number of parameters, etc. Most of the reports have around eight parameters of similar type, and their layouts are all of a relatively tabular format: there are several "sections", each containing a table that may have grouping and/or repeating rows. On average, each table contains about six fields. The queries that support the report datasets are not terribly heavy-weight: I can run them against SQL in under a half-minute in most cases.</p>
  
  <p><strong>I have examined and implemented the solutions in the following questions, but neither of them corrected the issue.</strong></p>
  
  <p>(Related to Safari/Chrome)
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5968082/ssrs-2008-r2-reports-are-blank-in-safari-and-chrome">SSRS 2008 R2 - SSRS 2012 - ReportViewer: Reports are blank in Safari and Chrome</a></p>
  
  <p>(Related to running browser as Administrator)
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3228872/ssrs-2008-reporting-services-webpage-is-blank-except-for-headers">SSRS 2008 - Reporting Services Webpage is Blank except for headers</a></p>
  
  <p>Other options that I have considered include running the reports from the computer directly instead of through Remote Desktop, and running the reports from other computers on the network other than the server that hosts them. Neither option bears consistent success.</p>
  
  <p>What I have determined, however, is that this problem is directly related to the number of parameters passed to the report. For instance, most of my reports have upwards of six or seven multi-select parameters; each of them is populated at runtime from the database. If users perform a "Select All" or otherwise select a large number of the options in the parameter selection, the above-mentioned issue appears. However, if users are specific with their parameters and only select a few, then the report renders correctly.</p>
  
  <p>Further complicating this situation is the fact that it suffers from the "works-on-my-machine" syndrome. It occurs in some environments but not in others.</p>
  
  <p>As mentioned, I am able to run the reports by limiting the number of selected parameter values; this works in every environment. I am curious, however, as to why this happens (an internal SSRS limit, perhaps?), and what I can do to consistently avoid it in the future.</p>