Absolute Report Manager
“Reporting” is a Web-based application to create, manage and use reports on a customer’s database. The end user interface of “Reporting” consists of two major parts: Reports Manager and Report Wizard.
The Report Wizard is intended for creating and editing all aspects of a report whereas the Reports Manager provides means for managing and using these reports.
Introduction Reports are created against business layer.
There is an easy-to-use interface for mapping of business layer entities to tables in the database. Once a business layer is built no programming skills are required for creation of reports of any complexity.
Functional features
- Generating a report against any business object or combination of business objects
- Grouping, sorting by any columns
- Filtering by any column or their combination
- Calculating totals against any column
- Delivering of high-quality charts and diagrams
- Applying arbitrary look and feel or selecting any of predefined themes
- Ability to send reports by email or to subscribe to receive them regularly
- Support of aggregation functions
- Support of sub-reports
- Ability to export the generated report into PDF and Excel formats
- Support of any printing requirements (paper format, number of pages, report orientation)