ODBC Drivers Connections in Planning Sheets/Reports

Does IOP Support odbc connections to Oracle databases that will fetch data into a combo box built on a planning sheet?
Right now, we are landing data in one sheet and then copying it to a data range and then on to the combo box?

But when you open the report from IOP after saving the connections in template those connection are lost in the report.
Thanks,
Hari Devarapalli
Edited by: user10109196 on Apr 27, 2011 11:56 AM

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