starboss wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I simply wish to a number of report 'packages'. These packages
> contain a number of reports as sub reports. This all works great but
> I wish to place the source reports in a sub folder of the main
> package folder to make things a little easier for the user. I get an
> error as the source report cannot be found.
>
> Can anyone help with this? Are linked reports suitable for this
> purpose?
>
> TIA
>
> Peter Hails

Chris McGuigan wrote:

> starboss wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I simply wish to a number of report 'packages'. These packages
> > contain a number of reports as sub reports. This all works great
> > but I wish to place the source reports in a sub folder of the main
> > package folder to make things a little easier for the user. I get
> > an error as the source report cannot be found.
> >
> > Can anyone help with this? Are linked reports suitable for this
> > purpose?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Peter Hails
>
> Yes Linked reports are good for this. Think of Linked reports as
> Shortcuts to the original. Two benefits of linked reports rather than
> copies are; 1) If you update the original report, the links reflect
> this and 2) you can save a different set of parameters and properties
> against the linked report.
>
> As an example: We have offices in the UK, USA and Germany. I deploy a
> report to a master folder which has an "office" parameter. I create
> linked reports in a UK folder, USA folder etc. and on each link I set
> the "office" parameter to default to the relevant office. This is a
> nice way of personalising reports. Also if I change the master report,
> I don't need to worry about the linked reports because they will
> always run the new version, but their personalised settings will
> remain the same.
>
> Regards
> Chris