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Report Business Service

This chapter describes the report business service methods. These methods can be used in scripts or workflow processes to automate reporting related business processes. For example, the administrator can define workflow processes to automate the business processes for generating a report with a specific query, or saving a report in the PDF format, or emailing a report to the customer.

Most users are familiar with report generation in the Siebel eBusiness Application views. In this mechanism, users may run a query in the view and then generate a report interactively or in the batch mode against that data. Subsequently, the report may be printed or shared with other Siebel users. Clearly this mechanism requires user interaction to accomplish reporting business needs. Using the report business service methods, customers can generate, share, and print reports automatically without user interaction. Since the report is automatically generated when certain business rules are satisfied, there is no way for the user to pass a query. Therefore, the view mode applied on the report executable is used for obtaining data.

Siebel Business Process Designer is an interactive software tool that lets you automate how your organization handles workflow processes.

For more information, please refer to Siebel Business Process Designer Administration Guide on the Siebel Bookshelf.

NOTE:  Currently, the report business service methods are supported only on the runtime events. Therefore, a user must be logged on to trigger an event that will invoke these methods.


 Siebel Reports Administration Guide, Version 7.5, Rev B 
 Published: 18 April 2003