Associating Saved Reports and Preferences with Data File.

[Derek Atkins]

David,

"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Well, actually, I see it a little differently. To me, it's a question of      
> having saved reports "go with" the data to which they refer. As it stands     
> right now, the reports are stored completely separately from the data, and if 
> by chance you have multiple data files (which is much more common in the user 
> base than the multi-user model to which you refer), then it is problematic to 
> have all reports (regardless of data file) stored in one file. It's also easy 
> to forget this file when backing up or transporting your file.                

I will point out that I did agree completely that reports should go with
the data file, and (I hope) nowhere did I imply otherwise.  I just don't
know *how* we can do that, but I agree it's a goal we should have.

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-derek

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