Help!!Problems revising reports

Dartdog

As I build reports I mess up a lot so I have to incrementally rebuild. My problem is that Brit keeps remembering what I've done and deleted. So for instance I deleted a column and all entries in it and then go to add it back and Birt says the field already exists and generates a Birt exception. Further as I modify aggregations the old (unused names never go away. Eventually I just chuck the report and start over trying to learn from my previous attempts so I get it right the first time...

Is there a more explicit save/don't save rather than every move being auto saved?

What Am I missing?

Are there steps to "clean up" a report design?
I'm using
Version 2.3.1.v20080911 Build <2.3.1.v20080917-1340>

mwilliams

Hi Dartdog,

When you delete a column in a table, the binding to the table stays there. This may be your problem. To solve this, when you delete a custom column or aggregation, you can go to the binding tab for the table down in the property editor area and delete the data binding for that column or aggregation. Then, you should be able to reuse the names of columns and aggregations if you decide to add them back later.

Hope this helps.