[Report Studio 1.1]Error- Missing field that is not in report

[dxwallace]

Cognos is giving me an error for a missing field RSV-RND-0053, but the field is not in my report. Does anyone have any insight to this problem?

[JoeBass]

You might copy the report to clipboard and search for a reference to the field in the definition.  You can excise it there or, it should give you hints that its buried in a filter or formula.

[dxwallace]

Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what you mean "copy the report to a clipboard"

[JoeBass]

In RS, there is a menu choice under Tools called Copy Report To Clipboard.  From there, paste it into your favorite text editor. 

The Open Report From Clipboard can be used to re-load a report whose definition you've edited outside RS.  Its also the way to load sample report definitions found on this site.

[dxwallace]

That worked, thanks a bunch. 

[dxwallace]

Just as a followup, we did the Copy report to CLIPboard under the Tools menu, We deleted the references to the old fields, and then used the Copy Report from clipboard which allows you to copy XML into Report Studio.

Then when we tried to validate the report, It came up with "no errors" whereas before it was saying it couldn't find the fields.

So that's that.