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Administering Archived Reports - Administering archived reports is simple with InetSoft's reporting software, an intuitive reporting solution that is used as a stand alone or embedded solution at enterprises worldwide. Administrators can manage the reports and the trashcan through the Enterprise Manager. A report can be saved into the archive through a scheduled task or by a user through their Portal page, using the 'Save as archive' option in the 'Save As' dialog box. If a file system archive is being used, archiving a report with the same name as an existing archived report will cause the original archived report to be overwritten by the new archived report. If a 'CVS' archive is being used, saving a report to an existing report adds a new version to the archive, rather than replacing the previous version. The versions are stored until removed explicitly by the user, or according to the version archive rule. If a user has at least read permission in an archived report, the archived report shows up on the repository tree on the user's Portal page. A user can then click on the archived report name to view the report...
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Advanced Enterprise Reporting Topics - Some of the advanced features discussed in this section are available only in the Enterprise products: Style Report Enterprise and Style Intelligence. A form is a collection of fields, which can be used to collect user input. The replet architecture allows user actions to be handled by server side Java objects. Since fields are grouped into a form using the form name, they do not need to be consecutive in the element flow. In fact, text elements are frequently added next to field elements in order to add labels to each field. In the Web Viewer, form elements cannot be global across forms. This is to maintain compatibility between Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. To access the form controls (if they are not visible), click on the small rightarrow in the element toolbar on the left of the Report Designer. Each form consists of one or more fields. Fields are on-screen controls which can be used by end users to interact with the report. All field elements are float elements. This means they share the layout properties of float elements, and can be positioned using an anchor. Every field element has a ‘Form Name’ attribute. The ‘Form Name’ is used to group fields into one form. All elements sharing the same ‘Form Name’ belong to the same form. They are packaged into a RepletRequest object to be forwarded to the server...
Archive Report Options - InetSoft's reporting software comes with extensive archive report options that are simple to incorporate in a matter of minutes. The following options are available for archived report on the 'Archive' page. The archive has the option 'Delete Removed Report Permanently'. If this option is chosen, then when a report is deleted, it is not placed in the trashcan but is permanently deleted from the system. The 'Archive Indexing' option is by default set to 'true'. When this option has been enabled, a report saved in the archive will be indexed for search capabilities. When this flag is set to 'false' the archive search will be disabled. The 'Traversal Depth' option allows you to set the number of levels of reports that can be followed starting from the hyperlinks within the archived report. This option only applies to the 'Generated Report' output format. A 'Traversal Depth' of 0 indicates that the reports targeted by hyperlinks in the archived report will not themselves be archived, and the hyperlinks will therefore not be active. A 'Traversal Depth' of 1 indicates that one level of hyperlinked reports will also be archived, which then allows the user to follow hyperlinks in the original archived report down to a second level of archived reports. However, the hyperlinks (if any) in that second level of archived reports will not themselves be active, unless an even higher traversal depth is specified...
Auditing Report Asset Dependencies - InetSoft's reporting software provides multiple tools to gauge and improve performance. Users can audit report asset dependencies and allocate resources accordingly. You can produce an audit report for asset dependencies. Asset dependency information describes, for each asset, the other assets which it itself requires, and the assets which require it. The audited assets include every reporting unit, not only worksheets and Viewsheets. The schedule on which the dependency report is generated can be configured from the 'Repository' > 'Asset Dependency' node under the Server tab, which opens the 'Asset Dependency Configuration' page. A database must first be specified in the 'Configuration' > 'Database' age under the Server tab. To configure a regular asset dependency audit, follow these steps: 1. Enter a time in the 'Check asset dependencies at' field. 2. Press the 'Create Schema' button, and press 'Apply.' A schema needs to created in cases where the database has been changed from the default database (under 'Configuration' > 'Database' in the Server tab). 3. To delete the schema, click the 'Delete Schema' button, and press 'Apply.' The asset dependency audit can also be run on demand from the 'Scheduled Tasks' node under the Server tab. Select the __check assets dependency__ task from the task list, and press the 'Run Now' button...
Automated Scheduled Report Distribution - We have shown an example of writing a report from scratch, inserting a pivot table and a chart. We have seen sample reports where you can automatically refresh the data and filter the data. And lastly, wouldn’t it be great if there were a handful of reports that you simply wanted to run on a weekly basis or a daily basis and have them automatically run and either emailed to you or printed or saved? Well, you can do that, too, with automated scheduled report distribution. Within the business intelligence suite, in addition to the query and analysis tools, there’s also a report scheduling tool. So let’s say you want to create a handful of reports to run every Friday. How would you do that? You simple click on the add task button at the top. Give it a name. We’ll call it Friday reports. Come down to the right, and click the little plus, and this is where it’s going to say what format do you want to send it in? Your choices are an Excel workbook, PDF, Word doc, rtf, or PowerPoint. Other functions can be added into this list of things that need to be done. By choosing Excel workbook, it allows you to go out and pick the report you’d like to run, or reports. Hit ok, and once you’ve got this, you can then decide what you want to do. You can see a variety of tabs across the top. You can print this to your local printers. Maybe you want to print selected sheets. You can do that as well...
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