REPORTING

REPORTING

Clicking the “Create Report” from the following screen

takes the user to this screen.

Click the Save button to save the report template.

The next step is to add report items in the saved template. In the report menu click the “View Report” option.

The following screen appears

On the left hand side pane the saved report templates will be enlisted.  Click on   to view the Report Template Properties screen on the right hand side pane.

In this screen Select the facts and dimensions for the report that you want to view in the report current item portion.

Add current item by giving a Report Item name and the other selections one can save the report item for later user. “Collapse” will remove the depiction from current view.  Sometimes there is a requirement for repeating the chart for specific values of a dimension, e.g., in the previous screen-shot, we are taking a report of store-sales against sale dates. Now we might want multiple charts for with the same value and criteria, with an additional filtration on the year-of-sale. So if we select the ‘Year Of Sale’ in the ‘Repeat for Dimension’ drop-down box, then exactly that will happen. The report will contain multiple charts one for each year.

At the bottom there is a “Launch Configuration “section. Click on to the “Open Launch Configuration” section and an additional portion will be shown that will pop up the screen.

The same report can be repeated with changed dimensions in every launching instance. Additionally one can launch multiple reports with varying dimensions as chosen during the launch configuration and all such reports would be presented as separate reports and available in the same zip file with different names bearing the name of the dimension values.

Clicking “Launch” actually starts the process of report creation.

The reports after creation are downloaded and a log or that is reported in the following manner:

Reporting is an asynchronous operation. Once launched, user can carry out with other tasks. After the successful report creation a message box will be shown to the user stating that the report has been successfully created in the place stipulated One may view the log of the reports if one wishes by clicking on the “View Log” where the problems if any are reported along with some time data of launching.

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