assigning a data source

Is there any other way to a assign a data source to a report other than
through the Report Manager. The reason I ask is because when I try to
browse for data sources in Report Manager, I get "Object reference not set
to an instance of an object". Microsoft tech support seems unable to help
with this error message so I'm wondering if assigning a data source can be
done outside of the Manager.
--Will you send the Report Manager log file that contains the object reference
exception? The file name should be ReportServerWebApp_<current date>.log
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"Richard Cranium" <mgreco40@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any other way to a assign a data source to a report other than
> through the Report Manager. The reason I ask is because when I try to
> browse for data sources in Report Manager, I get "Object reference not set
> to an instance of an object". Microsoft tech support seems unable to help
> with this error message so I'm wondering if assigning a data source can be
> done outside of the Manager.
> --
>
>|||I received the strack trace from the PSS engineer you were working with. I
believe you have view state disabled on your machine. In the web.config
file in the Report Manager directory, add the attribute
enableViewState="true" to the system.web/pages tag:
<system.web>
<pages enableViewState="true" />
</system.web>
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"Richard Cranium" <mgreco40@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23lOzEIpmEHA.2096@.TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Is there any other way to a assign a data source to a report other than
> through the Report Manager. The reason I ask is because when I try to
> browse for data sources in Report Manager, I get "Object reference not set
> to an instance of an object". Microsoft tech support seems unable to help
> with this error message so I'm wondering if assigning a data source can be
> done outside of the Manager.
> --
>
>