Monday, March 12, 2012

report builder cant join views?

Hi friends
i have quick question with report builder utility .am using VS2005 and Sql 2005.
When creating report model solution ,when adding field names from a table it loads fields names as it is ,right ? so to make end users life easier i created
Views with lengthy field names.

the issue is ,i'll start with an example ,i've 2 views (ParentView and ChildView) and the tables used by these views have foreign key relation ship .when i use these 2 entities in report builder as soon as i add a column from one view (say ParentView) the other view disappears from list !! I assume Report builder looks FKey to link 2 entities and since am using views which will not have any fkeys on them it removes other entities from list.
is there any way to link these 2 views so that users can add few columns from ParentView and few more from ChildView.
Yes, If i use tables directly everything works fine .
Thanks for your help.
i finally figured out .if any one interested
when we double click on data source view (in report model project you created) it gives graphical representation of objects where we can drag & drop to create relationships just like diagrams in Enterprise Managers

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