How To Request Reports

A user may request an ad hoc report from within your product:

• A report submission page enables a user to choose the desired report and enter the parameter values for the report
• The user must be granted security access to the report
• The request is passed to the reporting tool real time. Refer to Configure The System to Invoke BI Publisher or Configure The System to Invoke Business Objects Enterprise for more information.
• The reporting tool generates the report and displays it in a new browser window

The reporting tools' scheduler creates reports (as per your schedule)

• This function is entirely within the reporting tool. No scheduling functions reside within your product.

A user can request an ad-hoc report from within the reporting tool

• Note, the user's ID must be supplied as a parameter to the report in order for the user's profile to be used to format dates and numbers