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cnschulz
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Setting report "description" in desktop client

Hi, Im not sure if Im missing something obvious here... The datasources in each report have a description field that can be accesed via the API. I cant seem to find a similar thing at the *report* (catalogitem) level.

 

We currently force our users to create an "about" page listing the usage of the report as well as each datasource. This is only in a text box and is therefore not searchable. Id like to use the datasource descriptions as they can be extracted into a database and reported upon. Ive not seen anywhere that a *REPORT* (catalogitem) description can be entered.

 

The catalogitem object does have a "description" attribute but I cant see where this is set (through the desktop client)

 

Any ideas?

 

 

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