Question regarding remapping of fields in Crystal reports 2008

I have a report that uses 2 BW queries as data source.
I created a query that may replace the 2 queries
What specific steps should I follow so that the window for mapping of fields will appear once I changed the data source?
thanks,
Donna

Ideally if there is a change in the query then the window for mapping of fields should appear.The change in query could be of any sort like:
1.Change in the field type structure at the database end
2.Chage in the name of a field/table at the database end etc
However, if you are doubtful and want to avoid doing this directly on the existing report,you may always do it on a new report(just for testing purpose) and then do a 'Set datasource location' to point to the modified query.
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