Need child TABLE object to ref diff DATASET than parent LIST object.

Dang, I wish I had figured this out without having to ask.
Looked and looked for a similar thread - but no real "keyword" for
this issue.
Here's the situation; imagine you have customers and one database
table has demographic information while another database table has a
list of customer orders. Now you want a report that shows all that on
a document map-driven report.
Here's the page layout:
LIST OBJECT // DATASET(dsDemographics) GROUPBY(customer)
DOCMAP(customer)
>> TABLE OBJECT DATASET(dsDemographics) GROUPBY()
>> TABLE OBJECT DATASET(dsOrders) GROUPBY(orderdate)
>> TABLE OBJECT DATASET(dsTickets) GROUPBY(createdate)
Here's the problem: the second table containing orders will not
reference the dsOrders DATASET unless through aggregations - which is
obviously not what I am wanting to do. I want to list all the orders
for the current customer. Same problem with the third table - and
others.
Now, I see the problem is very clear. The orders DATASET does not know
how to filter itself on the current customer. That much I understand.
How do I do it?
Thanks in advance, JerrySounds like your needing to join the datasets. Easiest way would be to join
the data prior to pulling it into RS because, as you noted, RS can only join
data from one dataset to another using an aggregate. If one of your
datasets is SQL, you might use a linked server to pre-join your data.
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"Jerry Nixon" <jerrynixon@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dang, I wish I had figured this out without having to ask.
> Looked and looked for a similar thread - but no real "keyword" for
> this issue.
> Here's the situation; imagine you have customers and one database
> table has demographic information while another database table has a
> list of customer orders. Now you want a report that shows all that on
> a document map-driven report.
> Here's the page layout:
> LIST OBJECT // DATASET(dsDemographics) GROUPBY(customer)
> DOCMAP(customer)
>> TABLE OBJECT DATASET(dsDemographics) GROUPBY()
>> TABLE OBJECT DATASET(dsOrders) GROUPBY(orderdate)
>> TABLE OBJECT DATASET(dsTickets) GROUPBY(createdate)
> Here's the problem: the second table containing orders will not
> reference the dsOrders DATASET unless through aggregations - which is
> obviously not what I am wanting to do. I want to list all the orders
> for the current customer. Same problem with the third table - and
> others.
> Now, I see the problem is very clear. The orders DATASET does not know
> how to filter itself on the current customer. That much I understand.
> How do I do it?
> Thanks in advance, Jerry