Copying and pasting drill links

Let's say that a crosstab report shows Sales Quantity by quarter (rows), Product line (columns), and Order method (columns). The report has several filters.

There is a drill-through report which is to be called from the report columns, that is, Product line and Order method. When called, all the filter values are to be passed.

In this recipe, we will see how to define the drill-through and parameter mapping once and then copy and paste it for other drills, thereby reducing the development time.

Getting ready

Create a crosstab report to be used as the main report in the following format:

Define all the prompts and filters on the main report.

Now create a drill report that will accept all these parameters and additional information like Product line and Order method type. This is shown as follows:

How to do it...

Here we will see how to define the drill-through and parameter mapping once and then copy and paste it for other drills by modifying the XML specifications...