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About Reports

Reports are collections of meaningful data saved in a common file format, designed according to a particular template, and delivered to the right recipients. As permitted, you can use the set of pre-defined BI Publisher reports or additional reports created by your administrator. See Pre-defined BI Publisher Reports.

Note: Data for reports is accurate up to the last time the reporting database was updated.

You can elect to run a report in one of two basic ways:

  1. On-demand: This type of report generation has many other names, including ASAP, instant, ad-hoc, and "on the fly". As these names imply, the application accepts various input criteria from you in real time and then instantly generates and delivers the selected report to an e-mail address, or prompts you to save or open the file depending on output type.
  2. Scheduled: This type of report generation requires that you first configure the options and other details necessary to generate the report, but doesn't actually generate the report output until the scheduled day and time. You can also generate previously scheduled reports on-demand.

    Note: Your ability to run and schedule reports comes from security settings managed in BI Publisher. Contact your administrator for more information.

Related Topics

Working with Reports

Scheduling Reports

Running Reports On-Demand

Exporting a List of Reports

Viewing the Report Run History


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