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Managing reports with the Report form
The Report form stores report definitions for all report types, including Web
reports, AR System reports, and Crystal reports. It also stores metadata about the
report, including the following information:
The report name, report type, and description
The associated form and the report definition file
The report permission and availability settings
An optional base qualification and query override controls
Localization settings
Report permissions and visibility
When a new report is created, it is automatically available for any users who are
members of the same groups as the user who created the report, except for Public.
(If the user creating the report is a member only of Public, then the report is
available to Public.) The groups that have permission to a report are listed in the
Assignee Groups field of the Report form.
There are several settings you can change to control whether other users can see a
report:
Mark the report private—For Web reports, select the Private check box in the
Report Designer. This removes all groups from the Assignee Groups field in the
Report form when the report is saved. In this case, only the report creator can
see the report. This is the default setting when a new report is created.
Set report permissions—Add or remove groups in the Assignee Groups field in
the Report form.
Mark the report invisible—To prevent a report from appearing in the Report
Console or the ReportSelection form, but still allow workflow to run the report,
set the Visible in Console field in the Report form to No.
Set status to inactive or pending—To prevent a report from appearing in the
Report Console or ReportSelection forms, and prevent workflow from running
the report, set the Status field to Inactive or Pending. You can use the Pending
status to let reviewers know that the report is ready for review.
Controlling query overrides
When a user selects a report to run in the Report Console, the Override check box
appears. If allowed, the user can determine whether a qualification added at
runtime will override the query built into the report, or be added to the built-in
query with an AND operator. The report creator or an administrator can configure
settings in the Report form to control whether overrides are allowed.
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