Problem:
Metastorm 9 only allows you to add one business object to a report at a time. What happens if you add a second business object? All the field references to your original business object get removed.
No problem, I can just delete and fix my field references and the Designer will auto cleanup and put everything back together. With that in mind, I went and deleted the 2nd business object from my data access view, made the fixes to my original fields, went to validate/deploy then....whoops!!! Somewhere my report was still referencing the 2nd business object that I had deleted.
Error:
- The deleted BO reference to List_Notes was still somewhere in the report. (image 1)
- I double clicked the error to Go To component and all I got was an empty properties window (image 2)
- Verified the business object List_Notes was not in my data viewer panel for the report (image 3)
3833201b-f2c0-4b94-9a52-449e446270f7image 1: Designer Error Message
4e7c9980-53a7-44a6-9061-ab18be3f7050image 2: List_Notes property window
6b36fe22-5657-49b4-90f4-fc6208548558image 3: Report Data Access panel
Solution:
- Close your project if you have it open
- Open the folder of your project in Windows explorer and find the report in question. It will be a ".report" file (image 1)
- Right click and open in notepad or Visual Studio
- Find and remove the xml node that references the invalid business object (image 2)
- Save and Close
06fa9dff-b3f3-4e4e-ad52-69332779f7f6image 1: Report file
6d735859-c018-4e6f-b791-5ff74e9a31c3image 2: Find the reference node
That's it. Hope that helps.
