Working with Report Results

To see a report's results, you can preview or run it, and wait for its results to return on your desktop. Reports that involve large numbers of records may take a long time to complete. For these reports, you have the following options:

When a report's running time is lengthy, a message appears as the report is running on your desktop and you are given the option to click Alert me when ready. The report then runs in the background and you receive an email when the report is completed, with a link to its results. See Report Results Page.
You can schedule a report to be run on a particular date or on a recurring basis, See Scheduling a Report.
You cannot run more than one instance of the same report at one time. Generally, if you rerun a report that is already running, the first instance is canceled, and the second instance is run. Note that if you send duplicate requests to run the same report within a short period of time, you will receive a message telling you to wait until the first report execution is complete.
You cannot run more than two different reports at one time. If you attempt to run a third report when two reports are already running, you receive an error. You can wait until another report is finished, or cancel another report, then try again. Or, for some reports, you can save the report, then schedule it to be run and its results to be emailed to you later.
Report results that exceed system row limitations are truncated. See Row Limitations for Report Results.
Values in report results are rounded to the currency precision, as determined by the format of the company currency, or in NetSuite OneWorld, by the format of the subsidiary base currency. This rounding applies to currency values and non-currency values, including formula column values.

After you have run a report, NetSuite provides a wide variety of tools to help you view and manipulate report results so that they are most useful to your business.

Report navigation tools include expandable and collapsible sections, the ability to drill down into individual rows, a Find field, and a navigation pane with section heading markers. See Navigating a Report and Drilling Down to Records or Transactions.
Options in each report results page's footer enables you to change the data and look of an individual report without using the Report Builder. These options include a date range selector. See Setting Report Footer Options.
You can display a graph of report results. See Graphing a Report.
You can print report results. See Printing a Report.
You can email report results to yourself and others. See Emailing a Report.
You can export report results to an external application. See Exporting a Report.
After viewing most report results, you can click a Customize button on the report results page to open the Report Builder, where you can make changes to the report's definition. See Report Customization. For financial statements, you can click the Customize button to open the Financial Report Builder. See Financial Report Builder.

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When viewing a report filtered to show data for a specific date/period range, the report may show different data for users in different time zones.

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