Last month, after restoring the only ConfigMgr site and importing new reports, I saw that none of the reports I’m using have a link to another report.

To be sincere, this was a problem I didn’t know where to start troubleshooting. Thanks to guys from Microsoft’s ConfigMgr forum, who helped me identify the problem and recommended some troubleshooting steps.

So, the problem was due the fact that none of my reports had a link to another report. Don’t know how this happened… Anyway, to resolve this issue, I quickly installed a ConfigMgr site in a virtual machine and using Tom Watson’s advice, created a query that lists all reports with links to other reports. The query is something like this:
SELECT     TOP (100) PERCENT ReportID, Name, Category, DrillThroughReportID
FROM       dbo.v_Report
WHERE      (NOT (DrillThroughReportID IS NULL))
ORDER BY   ReportID
and the result looks like this:

DrillThroughReportID tells the ReportdID of the linked report. Basically, in a default configuration, I know the original ReportID and the linked ReportID.

Now, knowing these info, I’m manually creating the links in my production environment. This is a long process indeed, but I couldn’t find a way to automate this.