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Parameterized Reports

This chapter describes creating parameterized reports in Siebel Tools and Actuate e.Report Designer Professional. The majority of steps for creating parameterized reports are the same as those for creating any other report. Therefore, both in Siebel Tools and Actuate, only the steps specific to parameterized reports are described in this chapter.

Parameterized reports allow users to pass data into a report executable at runtime and customize the output of that report. The user may narrow the query, sort specification, or grouping by a field at the report's execution time. A parameterized report can produce different reports from the same report executable. The administrator defines the parameters and the attributes of a report during design time in Siebel Tools. For more information on report parameters, please see the "Designing report parameters" section in the Developing Advanced e.Reports manual on the Siebel eBusiness Third-Party Bookshelf under Actuate.

Siebel eBusiness Applications include several parameterized reports. Most of the parameterized reports are available in the Forecasting, Opportunity, and eAuction modules. When requesting a parameterized report, the parameters window appears after selecting the report from the drop-down menu and clicking Run Now. If the report is run using the Schedule option, the parameters window appears after the parameters on the Schedule window are specified.

NOTE:  Some applications may not include parameterized reports.


 Siebel Reports Administration Guide 
 Published: 18 July 2003