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I have written some custom report templates using custom views in the CiviCRM database, which produce reports of Contacts, which naturally have the buttons "Print Report", "PDF", "Export to CSV", which all work just fine.  Then there is a drop-list for selecting a group and a button "Add these Contacts to Group" which does nothing, ie does not all the contacts in the report to the selected group. 

The quite helpful guide on how to write custom report templates (for contacts and cases anyway) http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC43/CiviReport+Referencedoes not seem to touch upon this.  In fact, perhaps unsurprisingly, the example given as "Case 1" in that document will not add the displayed contacts to a group.

With the supplied report templates (eg Constituent Report (Detail) ) this feature works just fine (and produces a reassuring pop-up to say so).  I have looked through the code of the report template for this report and I can see no magic code which would obviously implement this function so I am obviously missing something, so would someone please give me a few pointers for where to look for the answer to this?

Thanks
Mark   

It wasn't, it now is, but it is still not working.   

Mark

Oh, thanks Kurund!   
I was using a non-standard alias for the contact table in my report template.  I am now using 'civicrm_contact' and it works just fine!

Thanks again
Mark