David,
Just adding the cursor to the DE doesn't open the table < s >. So, after adding it you either need to call the DE's openTables method, or open it yourself. Note that the former will cause an error if the DE has other tables in it that are already open.

HTH

>I imagined that if I added a cursor to the dataenvironment as follows...
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>I would see the available tables in the report designer. Not only can't I see ...snip