Parent child reports problems

Hi,
I have a report which I have created 3 or 4 child reports from.
If I make a change to the format of an object within the parent report
(e.g. the colour of a text box) then the change appears on the child
reports as I would expect.
The problem is that if I make a change to the properties of the report
(e.g. the margins or the page size) then the change is NOT picked up
in the child reports.
Does anybody have any solution to this annoying problem.
Regards,
JamesOn Nov 6, 4:33 am, joli...@.googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a report which I have created 3 or 4 child reports from.
> If I make a change to the format of an object within the parent report
> (e.g. the colour of a text box) then the change appears on the child
> reports as I would expect.
> The problem is that if I make a change to the properties of the report
> (e.g. the margins or the page size) then the change is NOT picked up
> in the child reports.
> Does anybody have any solution to this annoying problem.
> Regards,
> James
This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but you could use a
comparison tool to compare the RDL files side-by-side and merge the
changes pretty quickly. There's a trial version of a tool I like to
use here: http://www.araxis.com/merge/
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Enrique Martinez
Sr. Software Consultant