Operational Reporting
Operational Reporting is about outputting information on paper or electronic
documents as part of an IFS Applications business flow. It's all about
assembling, processing, formatting, archiving, and distributing
data. The operational reporting framework of IFS Applications provides support for
operations such as
- Report ordering, preview, and printing functions integrated into IFS
Enterprise Explorer
- Report and PDF Archive
- Print job management
- Creation and modification of report layouts using the IFS Report
Designer layout tool
- Integration capabilities with 3rd party report layout and processing
tools like Crystal Reports and StreamServe
- Electronic distribution and routing capabilities
The Operational Reporting framework consists of a number of components and
concepts, many of which are described in greater detail in the different sub
sections of this overview. From a high level this is how it works
- A Report Definition hold the logic on how to assemble the
data required for a certain report, as input it can optionally take a number
of report parameters.
- The assembled data is formatted using a Report Formatter -
input would be some form of layout and a number of formatting parameters
- The formatted result is archived and optionally outputted either to a
physical device like a printer or electronically distributed in an e-mail or
some other type of electronic message.
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