BR Report Elements

In reporting, structured and organized presentation of data is essential for effective analysis and decision-making. A Report Book and its Report Sections play a crucial role in managing and displaying data in a well-structured format.

Report Book

A Report Book is an IFS Business Reporter defined, design control feature consisting of a collection of report sheets. Each report sheet is a complete Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Executing an IFS Business Reporter report leads to the creation of an Excel runtime report book consisting of one or more Excel sheets. The sheets either come from the individual design sheets or from design sheets using the Sheet Repeater option.

The resulting Report Book with all its sheets represents the executed IFS Business Reporter report.

Report Section

Report Sections are a part of report sheets which in turn are part of report books. Each Report Section can be designed to contain a special set of attributes applicable only to that section.

For example, a Report Book may have a section for cost account balances, another section for fixed asset accounts, and another section with a pivot chart to display liabilities. In such an instance you may not be given the rights to access the entire report book, but you are allowed to view a section of the Report Book (i.e. access rights can be defined per report section and not necessarily the whole report book). A Report Section can have zoom-in, drill-down, write back and pivot features enabled.