Adding new field to existing ArcGIS report

Question

I spent couple of hours creating report from scratch using report wizard adding only certain fields of feature class that I would like to see on that report. I save and close report.

A few weeks later I realized that I needed an additional field added to the existing report.

I was only able to achieve this by re-creating report from scratch and adding the missing field at the beginning. This can be really time consuming.

Is there a way to add new field to existing report?

KentBuchanan · Answer

Agreed, the report designer doesn't let you add brand-new fields to the report - ones that weren't originally chosen to be available during setup with the report wizard. As a workaround, I was able to open up the ".rlf" and add additional available fields by imitating the syntax for existing fields under the headings and :

DanPatterson_Retired · Answer

Perhaps, the help is for 10.5.. other versions can be accessed on the main help page, but I am not sure if 10.0 is even listed anymore

PetePedrazzini · Answer

I'm using ArcGIS 10.0 if that matters and no Dan, the link you suggested does not help. Because once you load existing report I can't find the way how to add new field. May be ArcGIS 10 does not support that functionality