Hi, It's been a few weeks.. wondering if there is any progress on a solution? I have moved to a new environment recently (different Dept) and I noticed that DataView is behaving differently here. Firstly, I am now able to save multiple DataViews (Problem #1 resolved). This means I can have a keep a clean (no formatting) copy of my datasource and add (or remove) layers or variations of context/ formatting via the multiple saved DataViews (so long as the underlying/ imported field names don't change). Unfortunately, Problems #2 (non-detachable - still can't remove a DataView once it is applied to a report... I can only change it) and #3 (de-synchonization) still do not work. One of the ways I was compensating for Problem #2 was to take a newly loaded (no context/ formatting/ DataView) datasource and apply the context formatting to it by opening up a report that already had all of this formatting embedded (either directly or through the single DataView that was permitted - problem #1 - for it's original datasource). In this way, I could change the datasource to my newly loaded datasource and (so long as imported field names had not changed), I could adopt the context/ formatting and save it as a DataView attached to my new datasource or just save the report (and it would become permanently attahced to my datasource). This did not resolve Problem #3 (de-syncronization) and I still often had problems. However, now (not sure if it is due to the new environment and how DataViews are implemented) it seems that I can't even apply the old context/ formatting from on older report to my newly loaded datasource. All that happens is, once I change the report datasource to my new datasource, ALL of the old report context/ formatting is lost. Completely. Irrespective of whether this context/ formatting had been saved w/ the report directly or in a DataView attached to that report (actually to the report's original datasource). This behaviour makes even less sense than before. I'm hoping the Product Manager for VA has received these issues since this. Unless I have totally missed the mark in how to use DataViews, I need to ask SAS to make some some quick fixes or work-arounds to the DataView functions. I update my reporting once a quarter and, since field names sometimes change, I retain older copies of the datasource. So, every quarter, I need to create new quarterly datasources but these need to be attached to existing reports. I can't have the new datasource wiping out all of the context/ formatting every quarter in my report (now problem #5). Help! Leslie
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