>The problem we are seeing now is that the code appears to be bombing when it tries to open the original report as a table with a "File does not exist error". This seems odd, since the report is included in the .EXE.
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I don't see how this could ever work for reports that are included in the dbc- if it is included, then it doesn't exist. Its definition is embedded in the exe. You can't modify files that are included in the exe...