Report Details

Report Details

Overview

Reports are based on the Reportable tables in the Universal Controller database.

To create a report, you create a Report Details record and select a single Reportable table containing the data that you want to include in the report output. You can create a report as a list of table records or as a graphic.

To generate report output, you run the report either:

  • Manually

  • Automatically, as a Widget on any Dashboard. (If you delete a report from which a Widget was created, the Widget will no longer function.)

  • On schedule, by attaching the report to an Email Task or Email Notification action for any task type, and then defining a trigger for that task. When the task is triggered, the report is run.
     

Note

Some reports require specific roles; Reportable Tables identifies these tables.

Creating a Report

Step 1

From the Reporting navigation pane, select Reports. The Reports list displays a list of all existing reports.
 
To the right of the list, Report Details for a new Report displays. (You also can click the 

button to display Report Details for a new Report.)
 

Step 2

Enter/select Details for a new Report, using the field descriptions below as a guide.

  • Required fields display an asterisk ( * ) after the field name.

  • Default values for fields, if available, display automatically.

To display more of the Details fields on the screen, you can temporarily hide the list.
 

Note

If you view Report Details for an existing Report by clicking a Report in the list, and then want to create a new Report, you must click the New button that displays above and below the Details.

Step 3

Click a 

 button. The Report is added to the database, and all buttons and tabs in the Report Details are enabled.

Report Details

The following Report Details is for an existing Report.

Depending on the values that you enter / select for these fields, more (or less) fields may display. See the field descriptions, below, for a description of all fields that may display in the Report Details.
 

Report Details Field Descriptions

The following table describes the fields and buttons that display in the Report Details.

Field Name

Description

Field Name

Description

General

This section contains general information about the Report.

Title

Title (name) of the Report.
 
Report titles must be unique per visibility (see Visible To field, below):

  • Any Report that you make visible to Me (the logged in user) must have a unique Title among all Reports visible to Me.

  • Any Report that you make visible to Everyone (all users) must have a unique Title among all Reports visible to Everyone.

  • Any Report that you make visible to a Group must have a unique Title among all Reports visible to that Group.

Reports visible to Me, Everyone, and any Group can have the same title. For example, there can be multiple Reports titled Report #1 as long as only one is visible to Me, one is visible to Everyone, and one is visible to any specific Group.