Reports View of the Reports Page

Overview

Use this page to manage, run, and schedule the reports available to you. The arrangement of reports, including folder names and structure, is determined in BI Publisher.

Screen Elements

Reports toolbar

See Reports View Toolbar.

Report Name field

The title for the report defined in BI Publisher.

Default Format field

The standard or proprietary file format automatically used to deliver each instance of the report. You can schedule another instance of a report where you change the actual format that is applied to another format listed in the Available Formats field. For example, the default might be XML but you can decide to format the specific report instance as PDF or Microsoft Excel.

Default Template field

The common template automatically used to apply style to the raw data in the report.

Available Formats field

The permitted file formats that can be used for file output.

The file types available for output in P6 are specified in BI Publisher. One or more of the following outputs types are available:

  • HTML (.htm): The standard hypertext markup language file format used for web pages.
  • MHTML (.mht): The variant of HTML used to combine related external files such as images or audio with markup code into a single file for ease and portability.
  • XML (.xml): Standard extensible markup language file format.
  • PDF (.pdf): The Adobe Portable Document Format.
  • RTF (.rtf): Rich text format suitable for use with common word processor applications.
  • Microsoft Excel (.xls): The spreadsheet data file format for Microsoft Excel.
  • Microsoft Excel 2000 (.xls): An older variant of the spreadsheet data file format for Microsoft Excel 2000.
  • Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt): The popular presentation or slideshow file format from Microsoft.

Available Templates field

The permitted templates that you can use to apply styles to the raw data in the report.

A report template is a set of style rules applied to a report in order to best format and present its data. You can design templates using BI Publisher and also determine which templates should be available for users to apply to their reports.

Reports view detail windows:

Description Detail Window of the Reports Page

Schedule Detail Window of the Reports Page

Getting Here

  1. Click "" Reports.
  2. On the Reports page, click View and select Reports.

    Note: If Reports is not visible on the P6 navigation bar, confirm that your administrator has granted you the Enterprise Reports option in the Module Access field.


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