Reports

You can use Application Studio to import *.app_reports and *.reports files from version 11 to an application.

This topic describes changes that have been made to the platform since version 11 and how they affect migration of reports to the current version.

Application Studio no longer provides a web service and is used solely to develop content for use in applications. Dashboards is, therefore, the only user interface for viewing reports. Integration of Application Studio reports into portals must be adjusted to use the Dashboards API.

The handling of global variables has changed to enable parallel calculation and rendering of reports and charts on a dashboard, thus improving performance.

Global variables that are not used for widget communication are not synchronized across reports. If one widget changes a global variable then that change is not passed to other widgets that reference the same variable. If another widget triggers an action that uses the variable then the action must use the Globaltext property of the variable instead of the Text property.

Global variables that are used in widget communication continue to be synchronized automatically.

These features have been removed from the platform:

• Scripting
• POVs

  To achieve consistent selections and filters across reports, we recommend that you add common list objects to report style sheets.

• Native OLAP connections and client lists

  Infor EPM supports only XMLA connections to OLAP. Lists that were created on OLAP aliases must be manually migrated to server lists or slices, created on XMLA data connections.