Publish reports
When you create a report, it is unpublished. Before managers can access the report, you must publish it. When you publish a report, you add a number of display options that are used when users run reports. After you publish the report, you must add it to a Report Data Access Profile and assign it in a manager's People Information record.
You publish reports from the Report Management - Unpublished Report page. Publishing reports is usually an administrator task. You must have access to Application Setup.
To access the Report Management - Unpublished Report page:
- From the Main Menu, select Administration > Application Setup.
- From the Setup page, select Common Setup > Unpublished Reports. The Report Management - Unpublished Reports page opens.
From the Report Management - Unpublished Report page:
- Select a report and click tap Publish. .
- In the New Published Report window, provide the following information:
- Report Name — Enter the name of the report.
- Description — (Optional) Enter a description.
- Label — (Optional) Enter the name that is displayed in the user's list of published reports.
- Default Output Type — Select from:
- Category — Select the category of the published report. The category is used to organize the published reports. For example, if you are publishing a Time Detail report, it should probably be organized within the Timekeeping category.
- If necessary, you can publish the report in more than one category.
- Report Parameters — Although the parameter list cannot be modified, you can modify the parameter label and whether or not it is mandatory or displayed to the user.
- To change a parameter, select it, click tapEdit
then make the necessary changes.
By default, when you publish a report, it can be accessed by the All Reports data access profile.