model report - role attributes unavailable

Hi guys!
In my report model project Im trying to use the attributes of an entity.
This entity has (a number of) subroles coupled to it, which all are available
in the ReportBuilder-app once I drag any entity ground-level attribute on to
the canvas.
Unfortunately Im not able to put out the attributes in the subroles even
though they are visible among the ReportBuilder entity-props so they are not
hidden or anything.
I can drag these role-attribs out, but the mousepointer changes to that
forbidden-sign-thingie when I drag them out. For some reaseon RB does not
want to cooperate here, and Im not able to figure out why.
Anybody recognize this and care to comment?
DavidI found the reason; the cardinality was set to optional-many in both
directions of the role.
changing it to be optional-many/optional-one resolved this.
Hope this helps someone else!
David
"David Sundström" <DavidSundstrm@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi guys!
> In my report model project Im trying to use the attributes of an entity.
> This entity has (a number of) subroles coupled to it, which all are
> available
> in the ReportBuilder-app once I drag any entity ground-level attribute on
> to
> the canvas.
> Unfortunately Im not able to put out the attributes in the subroles even
> though they are visible among the ReportBuilder entity-props so they are
> not
> hidden or anything.
> I can drag these role-attribs out, but the mousepointer changes to that
> forbidden-sign-thingie when I drag them out. For some reaseon RB does not
> want to cooperate here, and Im not able to figure out why.
> Anybody recognize this and care to comment?
> David

Model Builder Field Order and Inheritance

When I create a report model, it is easy to change the order in a given entity. Does anyone know how to order the fields in an entity when you are using inheritance or inlining? I want to have the fields in alphabetical order so that the end user doesn't have to hunt for the correct field.

The other item I need to find out is how to customize the prefixes that inlining uses. Any ideas there?

Ron

Specifying field order across entities is not supported in this release. One thing you can do to mitigate this is use field folders so the user has a "tree" to search instead of a long list that is not ordered very well. In the case of inlining, you can actually place the role in a folder by itself, and all its fields will show up there when the role is expanded.

By "prefixes" I assume you mean the contextual naming that is applied based on the Role.ContextualName and Attribute.ContextualName properties. These are the mechanism for controlling this behavior.

Hope this helps!

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That was right on the money with both of the questions. That folder trick is really helpful in cleaning up some seriously unmanageable lists of fields.

R

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