Getting Started Q - Can Datasets be shared?

Hi,
I'm just starting with RS. Can Datasets be shared or copy/pasted between
reports. I have a number of reports that are all based on the same source
query and would like to avoid coding in several places.
THanks in advance.
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DougDoug,
You have a number of directions you can take with this.
One example would be that if the datasets are the same for two or more
reports, or even if the differ just slightly you can make a common list of
columns, not including the where clause, you could create a view on the
source SQL DB and refer to that for each report, just passing params as
required in a SELECT statement.
You could also use 'cut and paste' for each report, but this would mean
whenever the underlaying record schema changes, you would need to make the
same changes in more than one place on the RS reports.
Reports share data sources, being the location (catalogue) of the table
objects used to store the data, rather than the tables themselves.
Hope this assists,
Tony
"Doug Little" wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm just starting with RS. Can Datasets be shared or copy/pasted between
> reports. I have a number of reports that are all based on the same source
> query and would like to avoid coding in several places.
> THanks in advance.
> --
> Doug