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  • July 16, 2008 at 5:12 am

    #184879

    Hello I am trying to develop a report with the report builder, but it only allows me to drag and drop entities from only one table, can any one help me and explain to me how i can drag and drop from multiple tables or does it mean that i have to create a temp table with the required result set?

  • July 16, 2008 at 5:43 am

    #843697

    I don't use the report builder because this is one of the limitations, the report builder is aimed at end users to create very quick list style reports and from a single table (so the end user does not need to bother with joins).

    To overcome this (if you really want to use report builder) you probably need to create a View of the data you want available, this should then be available in the Report Builder.

    Is there a specific reason for using the Report Builder rather than creating a reporting using Visual Studio?

    Regards,

    Nigel West
    UK

  • July 16, 2008 at 5:54 am

    #843703

    Thanks Nigel, your explanation made A LOT of sense. Am creating a report model for a department to pull reports from where end users can use the report model to create their own type of reports by the use of drag and drop and filtering the dates of the report, that is to generate a report in between specified dates

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