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Report Definition does not save Declarative Index Join
As part of the SSA Reporting exercise "Create Reports to Display Work History" I'm trying to add the generated Index_WorkList to my Report Definition rule (see screenshot). However, when I press the Save button after successfully pointing to this Declarative Index Join, the table row with the definition suddenly disappears from the Data Access tab.
Does anyone know what could go wrong here?
Thanks in advance -Edgar
After peeking at the hints it seems that you can add the column of such a declarative index directly on the query tab. This create the necessary Declarative Index Join reference. However, it uses a prefix "Index_WorkHistory" identical to the name of the rule; hardly a "prefix" in that sense, which confuses me. Is that mandatory?
Other examples shows in this course use a simpler acronym like "PO" for Purchase Order. So, I've replace the prefix with "WH". That seems to work.
Question remain: Why does PRPC clean up those Join references when not used on the Query tab in contrast to the behavior elsewhere, i.e. the Parameters tab?
Also, when taking the logical approach of "define before use" which is common in computer science, one cannot use the auto-complete feature on the Query tab. PRPC has no way of knowing the Join and its prefix, because we must not save before going to the Query tab and make the definition complete. One has to remember the page list properties. Although not impossible of course, it does defeat the purpose of having those auto-complete textboxes, doesn't it?
Some room for improvement regarding Reporting. Or does anyone know a a better solution for defining Data Access for these rules?