Merge dictionary - purpose ?

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• AlexTZ

  January 2010 edited 2:10PM

  This functionality is used very rarely; it merges an existing dictionary with the new one.
• Hans

  January 2010 edited 2:10PM

  I play with it but it only Loads a Dictionary over the existing one.
  
  Should it not Add the new Dictionary to the already existing Dictionary and remove duplicate datasource columns ?
  
  When Merge works as expected you can create a lot of smaller Dictoinaries and merge the ones you need for the report.
  For example; a Customer.frd, Order.frd, OrderDetails.frd, etc.
  For report of Customer labels you need only Customer.frd.
  For a Ordertotals report you need Customer.frd and Order.frd.
  For a Orderconfirmation you all the three frd's.
  Of course you have to set the relations manually.
  

  AlexTZ wrote: »

  This functionality is used very rarely; it merges an existing dictionary with the new one.
• AlexTZ

  January 2010 edited 2:10PM

  Actually you don't need to merge dictionaries. Each report contains its own dictionary stored in a report file. All you need is to register all datasources (using report.RegisterData method) and select datasources used in a report (in the Data|Choose Report Data... menu).