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How to delete a BIRT Report Designer data source

Use the following procedure to delete any type of data source.

  1. In the data explorer, right-click the data source, and choose Delete from the context menu, as shown in Figure 2-5.
  2. Figure 2-5 Deleting a data source

    Figure 2-5 Deleting a data source
    If any data sets use that data source, BIRT Report Designer displays a list of the data sets in Reference Found, as shown in Figure 2-6.

    Figure 2-6 Checking dependencies that affect data sets

    Figure 2-6 Checking dependencies that affect data sets
  3. Choose Yes if you want to delete the BIRT data source.
  4. BIRT Report Designer removes the data source from the report design. If a data set uses the deleted data source, the data explorer prepends a symbol to the name of that data set to indicate that it is unusable. In Figure 2-7, the Sales data set is marked as unusable.

    Figure 2-7 An unusable data set

    Figure 2-7 An unusable data set

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