The Report Management button displays the main page of the application.

A list of reports is available under the Personal Reports and Shared Reports tabs. If no reports have been created, this list is empty.

Click the name of the report to launch it in a new browser window.

Any reporting components that reference the ShipCountry data column will show only orders shipped to Mexico.

The figure above shows a field requesting a parameter value. Runtime parameters are defined on the Select or Modify Data Sources dialog under the Filter tab. Click on the Modify Data Source button to access the dialog. A default value is chosen during the report-creation process and can be changed by the user.

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Date values less than 01/01/1753 may not be specified.

There are two options for running the report.

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If the report contains numerous parameters, click Run and Hide Parameters to provide more screen space for the report. Run the report again to input additional parameters.

Run and Run and Hide Parameters affect the parameters for the report. Any additional settings specified in the Report Builder are left intact.

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Run and Run and Hide Parameters are only available by placing a check in the 'Ask' checkbox when defining parameters.

Cascading filter parameters produce one or more drop-down menus at runtime. The value selected from the first drop-down menu is used to filter the second drop-down menu and so on. The last parameter is selected from a list and passed to the report when the user clicks Run.

Cascading filter parameters produce multiple, dependent drop-down menus.

A drill-down report with a sortable Customer ID column.

The column header, Customer ID is displayed as a link. The heading link allows the user to sort that column. The sort option was configured in the Column Configuration panel of the Table component in the Report Builder.

Drill-down reports are created in the Grouping step of the Table wizard. The Customer ID column is the grouping column and each record in the Details column is a hyperlink. Clicking each link in the Details column reveals the sub-report.

Export options always appear at the bottom of a report.

Export options give users the ability to export reports to popular formats such as Microsoft Excel and Adobe PDF. Users can also search the report, print from the browser and add the report to the archive. Add or remove export options through the Report Builder.

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The various export options will appear if the user viewing the report has Rights to add the respective export option(s) to the report in the Report Builder.