Request Reports

 

Users have the ability to view previously run reports in the Request tab. To access this view, click on the Request tab which will become visible. On the Request  reports page, the user can see details such as the report name, when the report was run, No.of rows in the report, the user who submitted the report, and submission status of the report.  Users can  have the options to resubmit,  protect, delete, and look at further details.

 

 

Status Indicator: There are three status types: Red = fail, Yellow = processing, Green = completed, blue=pending

Report Options: By clicking on the  'Options' icon found on the selected report line, a series of options will be presented to the user.

 

Click to resubmit your report. This will resubmit the end users report with live, updated data.

 

Protecting the report allows the user to prevent the report from being deleted by anyone other than that user.

 

 

Click to distribute the report to users /groups/respomsibilities.

  This deletes the process from the list.

  This shares the process from the list.

A window pops up with detailed information, as well as allowing the user to view complete Process details with respect to the report distribution and bursting. The emails, FTP and the file systems used, and the reports sent can be viewed on the Details page.        

This option provides User to re-burst a burst report.        

Process Details

 

• Whenever user clicks on completed status of a report hyperlink user will get a snap shot of that particular report eg: Report name ,Process Id, Start time of the report, End time of the report, Disrtibution details, Bursting details and View SQL.

 

                   

 

• User can check the Distribution and Bursting Details in two ways.

 

1. Requests->select the Report-> Status icon -> Distribution/Bursting Tab.

 

                    

 

2. Requests->select the Report-> Options  -> Details-> Distribution/Bursting Tab.

 

                                            

 

Additional Functionality

 

• Reload -Reload will update the processes list for any newly submitted reports.
• Terminate - Click this icon to terminate the submission of pending and processing reports.  
•  Delete - Select the check box against the report name and click delete to delete submitted processes.

 

• Search - Enter the report name in the search report field to search for a submitted process of a report.

 

• Search By  - The SplashBI Excel Connect provides user  a search option for a submitted report as Search by Responsibilitis/Process Id/Report group/ Report Name/Status /Rows Range/Dates Range.

      

• Protect-Protecting the report allows the user to prevent the report from being deleted by anyone .
• UnProtect- UnProtecting the Protected report to allow user to delete.