Saving a Report

Name

Provide a name for your report.

Description

Provide a description for the report to assist users with understanding its purpose and content.

Category

Select a category to save the report into. You will only be able to select categories you have access to.

Sub Category

Select a Sub Category to save the report into. This Sub Category may have security and refresh settings applied to it that will effect the report.

Tags

Apply tags to your report to make searching for it easier.

Report Access

There are two access permission options available at the report level:

• Public: all users with Category access will be able to view this report.
• Private the writer may assign users access to the report. See Private Report Security for more information.

User Access List

If the Report Access is set to Private the write can define users with varying levels of access to the report here.

Personal Broadcast

Allow or prevent users from broadcasting this report to themselves.

See Broadcast for more information.

Broadcast

Allow or prevent users from setting up broadcast schedules of this report for other users.

See Broadcast for more information.

Web Services

Allow or prevent users from calling this report via web services.

Web Services Name

Provide the name of the report used to call via web services.

Email

Allow or prevent users from distributing this report via email.

See Sharing Reports for more information.

Email & Broadcast Security

This setting is used to determine whether a report can be emailed from the system to unauthorised users or not. The options include:

• Validated Users: only users that have security access to the category and the report. Prior to sending the report is validated against user permissions.
• All Users: the report can only be sent to people that are registered users of the system.
• Unsecure: the report can be sent to unregistered users.

Browse Page

Include or hide this report from display on the Browse Page. Reports are sometimes hidden from the browse page if the writer intended users to access them via Drill Through, Dashboard, or Storyboard.

Dashboard

Include or hide this report from the Dashboard Overview. Some reports may be hidden from the dashboard if they are too detailed.

Refresh Settings

Some reports do not run automatically and require you to refresh the data contained in them. If your report is not refreshed automatically the data you see when you open the report may be relatively old. The age of the data is displayed under the menu bar. There are three refresh options:

• None: there is no refresh schedule for the report and the data will be loaded fresh when the report is run.
• Manually: data in this report will be manually refreshed by the user when required.
• Periodically: data in this report will be refreshed on a scheduled basis.