Report layouts
Content Manager's reports are versatile and can be altered for different purposes.
Whether you select a pre-defined report from the Home- Layouts menu or use one of the Search - Find... commands to select items for a report, you have as much control over the report as you want.
You can determine which records and details you want included in a report or you can accept the default settings for a report.
Reports provide an overview of the information contained within the Content Manager dataset.
You can modify the reports to suit your organisational preferences by clicking Home - Layouts - Report
The report designer is by default only available to Content Manager users with user types Administrator and Records Manager.
See User permissions for information about providing user access.
A single report can be made up of multiple bands of information.
Each band contains different types of available information items.
For instance, the first band in the report may have the report title while the second band may contain record information.
Using bands to compile a report enables you to separate and format repeating information, for example, record information, from non-repeating information, for example, report titles.
You can open as many report designer windows as you need; however, the following limitations apply:
- A user in the same Content Manager session cannot open the same report more than once simultaneously
- Users in different Content Manager sessions, for example, on different computers, can open and modify the same report, but only the last one saved is retained and the administrator will receive a mail notification informing them that the document store could be corrupted
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