10.2.1  Deciding on Elements and Queries

First, examine what data needs to be presented and decide which report elements will best capture the information. Make sure that the existing queries will provide the data in a usable form, subject to the modifications available during data binding.

In some situations, queries are required for a particular report, but will not be used in other reports. These queries should be created as local queries, which are embedded and saved within the report template (.srt) file, as opposed to global queries which are stored in the query registry (query.xml) file. This avoids unnecessary clutter within the query registry. See Creating a Local Query in Data Modeling for more information.

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