Report Activities

This document provides you a brief overview for each activity that can be performed in the Report Mode.

The following activities are available in the IFS Business Reporter ribbon.

Go to Design

Navigates from Report Mode to Design Mode. Requires design user privileges.

Run Report

Runs the current report

Load Report

Opens the Load Report from Database dialog where the design of a specific report revision can be selected for load from the database

Order Report

Opens the Order Report dialog where a specific revision of a report can be selected for execution

Manage Export Archive

Opens the Manage Archive dialog box. Use this to modify reports that are saved in the archive when exporting a Microsoft Excel report.

Export

Opens the Export to Excel Report dialog box. Use it to save and/or email the report as a pure Excel report. The dialog can also be used to save the report in the Business Reporter specific Export Archive, preparing for later importing from the exported Excel report.

Import

Opens the Import From Excel Report dialog box that is used to import data values from a previously exported pure Excel report to the target Business Reporter report.

Writeback

Performs modified write back by getting all modified cells, creating the transactions and then saving them to the database.

Writeback All Data

Gets all writeback enabled cells, creates the transactions and sends them to the database. Requires that Allow Complete Writeback has been enabled in Design mode

Review Collected Data

Selecting this option will lead to that all collected write back values will be presented in Writeback pane in Document Actions for manuall inspection and it will be up to the user to perform the write back by selecting the Save button.

Report Options

Opens the Report Options dialog that can be used to find out the report options that applies for the current report.

Access Type

Opens the Used Data Access Type dialog that shows the requested and the used data access type for each Information Source referenced by the report.

Document Actions

Will open or close the Document Actions pane

User Info/Login

Displays the current user. Clicking on the down-arrow will provide a link to the start page of the actual IFS Applications instance and it is also possible to switch user by clicking on Re-Login

Settings

Opens the Settings dialog that diasplay current settings but also provides as possibility to refresh the translation cache. For more information please refer to the Technical Documentation.

About

Opens the About IFS Business Reporter dialog that provides information about current product version, component version and build date. A link to the about description in the online documentation related to IFS Business Reporter is also available.

Help

Opens the End User help documentation in the online documentation

The following activities are available in task pane, i.e. in Document Actions

Go to Design

Navigates from Report Mode to Design Mode. Requires design user privileges.

Run

Run the current report

Parameters

Displays used parameters and their values

Writeback

Opens up the Writeback sub section.

Get Modified

Gets all modified write back enabled cells and presents the corresponding transactions. Only available in the Writeback sub-section.

Get All

Gets all write back enabled cells and presents the corresponding transactions. Only available in the Writeback sub-section.

Save

Performs Writeback, i.e. sends write back related transactions to IFS Applications for further processing. Only available in the Writeback sub-section.

Export

Writes the collected write back related transactions to a CSV file

Debug

Opens the Debug Information section where current debug settings are displayed. Information about requests and response and detailed data set information will be available depending on design mode settings. Detailed information is related to the tabs Activity Log and Data Set Info that presents time elapsed for different activities and also how data sets are built and grouped. There is also a separate button named DataSet Info that displayes collected client data sets corresponding server data sets, available if the design mode option Display Dataset Info Before Executing has been selected.