Build Report View

In the Build Report view, you can create a report, add text and rules, and schedule a report.

Workflow

This workflow shows the procedure to create and schedule a report.

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Quick View

The following figure shows the Build Report View.

To access this view

Go to Reports.

The Manage tab is displayed.
Click Reports.

The Reports view is displayed.
In the Reports toolbar, click .

The Build Report tab is displayed.

The Build Report view consists of the following panels:

Report Panel

The Report panel allows you to create a report by assigning a name to the report. The content in a report depends on the items selected from the Text and Rules panels.

When you add rules to a report, you can change the output format of these rules either to tabular, area, line or pie by clicking the button.

The following table lists the features of the Report Panel and the description.

Text Panel

The Text panel consists of a list of text elements that add to the look and feel of the report. You can use these text elements to format the report.

To add more structure to reports, you can use these headers defined in the Text panel to indent up to four levels. This allows you to identify specific sections in a report that can be included in the Table of Contents for easy navigation in the report result.
To add headers to the Report panel, drag and drop H1, H2, H3, or H4 onto the Report pane based on the desired level of indentation.

The following table lists the text elements used to format a report:

Rules Panel

The Rules panel consists of a list of rules that are defined in the Rules. From the rules list, you can drag and drop rules onto the Report panel to associate those rules with the report.

You can search for a specific rule using search text box provided in the Rules panel.