New report creation involves putting together report elements from scratch in Actuate e.Report Designer Professional. It is the most commonly employed technique for satisfying the custom reporting requirements of an organization. There are also some shortcut techniques, discussed in this chapter, to speed up the creation of a new custom report. The chapter also includes information on migrating custom reports to a new Actuate version.

The chapter contains the following topics:

• Creating a New Report Compared With Subclassing a Design
• How a Simple List Report Works
• Examining an Existing List Report
• Creating a Simple List Report
• Process of Creating a Custom Report With Actuate e.Report Designer Professional
• Alternative Report Creation Strategies
• Additional Information for Developing and Deploying Siebel Reports
• Using Actuate e.Report Designer to Create Reports