Add a Column to a Report Model

I had the odd request to add an extra column to a SQL 2008r2 “Report Model”. I had never heard of one of those, but it turned-out to be a type of amalgamated data-source that the users created there own ad-hock reports from (via Report Builder 1).

To add the extra column I just added it to the SQL View (which was named in the amalgamated data-source definition). Then to refresh the Report Model I downloaded it and uploaded it with a new name.