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I'm trying to create a report from a template: Event Participant Report (List).  When I preview the report, there are no results.  Which is expected because I haven't made the event public yet.  I wanted to have the report ready to go for my customer before the event went public.

When there are no results, there is no "Create Report" link displayed.  As a result, I can't create a report from the template.  If I change the report to include participants from an earlier event, there is data listed and I can create the report from the template.  Unfortunately, I can't go and update the report criteria to show the participants for the actual event because previewing the search will just return no results and no ui element to update the report.

Is this a bug or does it "work as designed"?

Looked at the code more closely....I'm in drupal, so under the civicrm module:  templates/CRM/Report/Form/Fields.tpl is where they determine whether to show the "Create Report" link or not.  Line 19 includes reference to $rows:

{if ($instanceForm and $rows) OR $instanceFormError} {* settings section starts *}

So if there are no results, there won't be any rows and no Create Report link.  Removing $rows from that line of code makes the Create Report link display twice.  I haven't played around with it much or tested it.  Maybe this will help others.  Hopefully a civicrm dev will take notice and fix it.