Report Designer stops opening any RDL layout at all — clicking to open a layout does nothing, with no error message shown — what's worth trying?

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Reinstalling Java resolved this specific 'nothing happens when opening an RDL' symptom in practice — Report Designer's RDL editing relies on a working local Java installation, and a corrupted or otherwise broken Java install can cause it to silently fail to open any layout at all without producing a visible error.

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