About Reports

Reports are collections of meaningful data saved in a common file format, designed according to a particular template, and delivered to the right recipients. As permitted, you can use the set of sample BI Publisher reports or additional reports created by your administrator.

Notes:

Project, enterprise, and other types of global data for reports must be automatically or manually published to ensure up-to-date information. See: Publishing P6 Data.
The P6 EPPM sample reports were designed to be run against the small data set included in the sample database. These reports are provided as an example of the product's capability only. Oracle provides no guarantee, implied or explicit, that the sample reports will run against your database or will produce meaningful data when they are run against your database. You may modify the sample reports to suit your own data set, including adding filter criteria to limit data output or changing filter criteria to suit your data.

You can elect to run a report in one of two ways:

On-demand: This type of report generation has many other names, including ASAP, instant, ad-hoc, and "on the fly". As these names imply, the application accepts various input criteria from you in real time and then generates and delivers the selected report to an email address, or prompts you to save or open the file depending on output type.
Scheduled: This type of report generation requires that you first configure the options and other details necessary to generate the report, but doesn't actually generate the report output until the scheduled day and time. You can also generate previously scheduled reports on-demand.
Notes:
- Your ability to run and schedule reports comes from security settings managed in your P6 reporting software. P6 user access settings determine what, if anything, you will see. For example, to view overhead codes in a Timesheet Report, you need module access for the Reports section of the application as well as resource access for the resources included in the report. Contact your administrator for more information.
- To see the Reports page login as a a user with module access to Enterprise Reports.

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