Creating Report Components in Reporting Objects

The Report component creates a report template and saves it in a Reporting Object. Authorized users can use the report template to create a report that suits their needs and then save the new report.

To create a report template, double-click the Report component, or right-click the component and select Open. InfoAssist opens, allowing you to create a report template.

For more information on using InfoAssist, see the WebFOCUS InfoAssist User's Manual.

Note:

• To open the report source code in the text editor instead of InfoAssist, right-click the Report component and select Edit. Manual changes to the code may make the report incompatible with InfoAssist.
• Syntax and error checking is not performed on the commands that you type until the Reporting Object is run.
• If the Reporting Object contains both a report and a chart, the user is asked whether to run the object as a report or chart. The Reporting Object cannot be run simultaneously as both.
• When Amper Auto prompting is used (Prompt for Parameters is selected in the Reporting Objects properties), there are scenarios in which users are prompted to provide amper variable values in selection criteria (WHERE statements) in the Reporting Object that the user did not save with the report. This is due to the internal processing of reports created from Reporting Objects. You can avoid this issue by using the Filter component to predefine selection criteria for users to include in reports. Only the filter or filters that users select for inclusion in their reports are evaluated by the WebFOCUS Amper Auto prompting facility.