Report Chooser

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Report Chooser

Viewing Options

Report Search Capabilities

Editing Report Parameters

Report Permissions vs Facility Permissions Logic

Virtual Folders

 

The Report Chooser appears when the user needs to select a report. By default, widgets will display the name of the currently selected report (if applicable). To select a different report or create a new report, click the Choose a Report button or name of the report. The Report Chooser will open and display available reports.

 

To select a report, click on the row (Grid View) or tile (Tile View). This action will close the Report Chooser.

 

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System reports use the system report Ent-System_Report icon.

 

User reports use the user report Ent-User_Report-Icon icon.

 

The EIA Ent-EIA-Icon icon in the upper right corner of the tile appears for user reports with associated scheduled EQuIS Information Agent(s), or EIA(s). These reports have the "hasEIA" property set to true, and selecting the icon will open a view to select an EIA associated with the report as a data source.

 

Note: Currently, only the Data Grid widget and the EZView widget can consume EQuIS Information Agents (EIAs) as a data source.

 

For EQuIS 7.20.3 and later, only scheduled EIAs are available as data sources in the Enterprise user interface. A future release will implement New Data EIAs for use in widgets. Access New Data EIAs from the GET /api/reports/{reportId}/events/{reportEventId}/data) endpoint.

 

 

Viewing Options

 

The Report Chooser provides a variety of options to view and select reports. Select the More Options Ent-More_Options-Icon icon to open a drop-down menu with the following options:

Favorites – Lists the user's favorite reports. Select favorite reports in tile view by clicking the star on the tile. The star will change to gold, and that report will show up in the Favorites view.

Recent – Lists recently used reports, sorted in reverse chronological order (most recently used appearing first).

EIA(s) – Displays only grid reports with associated EIA(s) that have run and been stored in the ST_NOTICE_ATTACHMENT table as a Compressed Data Table (CDT) output type.

Browse – Browse all accessible reports.

Tile View – Displays the reports as large tiles. Long report names may be truncated if they exceed the size of the tile. To view the full report name, hover the mouse over the report name.

Grid View – Displays the reports in list form (default view). In addition to report name, this view displays the REPORT_ID and owner of the report. The grid view offers a filter functionality by entering text into a text box field at the top of each column. Multiple fields can be filtered simultaneously by entering filter criteria in two or more columns. In the example below, a red highlight surrounds the text boxes where filter values are entered and shows the filtered results when the term "Field" was entered in the Name column and "Form" was entered in the Code column. The current filter values are summarized in the bottom left corner, shown with a red highlight.

 

Note: Administrator users are able to configure the default view on an application-wide basis, however individual users can update the default settings for the Report Chooser in the Application Settings of the User Profile Editor. Details and examples demonstrating how to configure a Default View and View Mode (Renderer) are available in the Chooser Configuration article.

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Close Report Chooser – The Ent-Close_icon icon closes the Report Chooser without changing the selected report.

 

 

Report Search Capabilities

 

Search available reports by entering at least three (3) characters into the search box Ent-Search_Icon below the header. The Report Chooser will display reports containing the search string.

 

The search option does not automatically search sub-folders. To search all folders and subfolders, click the Search button below the search results.

 

Clicking Search hides the current folder structure. To clear the search and reinstate the folder structure view, click the Ent-Search_Reset_Icon icon at the end of the search box.

Ent-Report_Chooser-Search_Example

 

Editing Report Parameters

 

To edit report parameters, click he Edit Ent-Report_Edit-icon icon to open the Report Parameter Editor for the selected report. A user with Editor permission on that report may save updates. A user with only Viewer permission on the selected report must save any changes to the parameters as a new user report.

 

Many reports include facility as an input parameter. Use the Facility Chooser to select a facility.

 

Select other parameters from a list or a calendar as applicable. For better viewing, expand or collapse the parameter categories.

 

 

Report Permissions vs Facility Permissions Logic

 

Effective permissions for a report will respect facility permissions. The database function equis.report_facility_id determines the facility associated with a report. The database auth function (equis.auth) checks user permissions against the facility before checking against the report.

If the report is associated with a facility (as determined by equis.report_facility_id) and the user does not have permission to that facility, then they will not have permission to that report (regardless of any other GRANT permissions to the report).

If the user does have permission to the facility, then their report permissions are based on the effective permissions on the report; having permission to the facility does not automatically grant permission to the report.

 

The equis.report_facility_id function uses the following logic to determine the FACILITY_ID associated with a report. The first non-null value is used; if more than one of the following values is populated (potentially with different values), the first non-null value (based on the order below) takes precedence:

1.ST_USER_REPORT_PARAMETER.PARAM_VALUE [where PARAM_NAME = '@facility_id']

2.ST_USER_REPORT.FACILITY_ID

3.ST_REPORT_PARAMETER.DEFAULT_VALUE [where PARAM_NAME = '@facility_id']

4.ST_REPORT.FACILITY_ID

 

 

Virtual Folders

 

To help navigate reports, the Report Chooser contains three virtual folders:

By User, sorting by creator

By Facility, sorting by facility parameter or ST_REPORT.FACILITY_ID

By System Report, sorting by a user report's base report