# Report: is it possible to refer a data source indicator from another data source indicator?

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**Created:** [April 2, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.dimagi.com/t/report-is-it-possible-to-refer-a-data-source-indicator-from-another-data-source-indicator/6352 "2019-04-02T10:31:54Z")\
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Report: is it possible to refer a data source indicator from another data source indicator?

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It depends what you want to do. Probably the most standard option - which can impact ETL performance - is to use a [Related Doc Expression](https://commcare-hq.readthedocs.io/ucr.html#related-document-expressions) to pull in data from another data model into the data source.