Description Paul Rogers 2008-03-26 20:42:36 EDT

Created attachment 93728 [details]
Sample report design

Open the attached report. It shows customer sales using the Classic Models database. The report was created with an understanding that the database contains 2005 and 2006 data. Turns out, the database contains 2004 and 2005 data. No problem, I'll just adjust the fields...

Select the data item called "2005 Sales". Let's change this to "2004 Sales". Double-click it. It turns out that the binding name is read-only, it can't be changed.

OK, let's change the binding name. Select the table. Select the bindings tab. Edit the "Sales_2005" binding. Can't change the name here either.

Apparently, the only way I can fix this problem is to leave the item with an incorrect name, or to delete the aggregate and field and start over. Had I already done formatting, I'd now have to redo formatting, etc. My aggregates have expressions in two places, so I'll presumably need to copy those one by one to the new aggregates.

Expected that I should be able to recover from such simple mistakes by either:

1) Not having to mess with the bindings. (Still have not figured out what they do for me.)

2) Be able to rename the bindings.