Publishing a burstable Lawson Applications report

Use this procedure to publish a Lawson Applications report that contains bursting tags. Before you can specify bursting options, you must publish the Lawson Applications report that you want to burst.

  1. Click the Administration link. The Reporting Services Administration screen is displayed.
  2. Click Publish New Report. The Publish Report screen is displayed.
  3. In Type of Report, select Lawson Back Office.
  4. Specify this information:
    Server
    Select the server upon which the Lawson Applications report resides. The drop down box contains all of the Lawson data sources that you set up in the system.
    ProductLine
    Select the product line against which you want to run the report.
    Job User
    Select the name of the person who ran the Lawson Applications report that you are publishing. The drop-down box contains the names of all valid users for the product line that you specified.
    Note: You can adjust the number of job users for retrieval in Tools > Report Administration > Server Administration > Maintain Data Sources > Edit FTP Settings. You can specify the value in the Job User Max Record field under Deployment Properties.

    See Configuring a Lawson data source's FTP connection.

    Job Name
    Select the report job. The drop-down box contains all available jobs associated with the user you specified.
    Report
    Select the report name, print file name. The drop-down box contains all available report names associated with the job name you specified.
    Name
    Specify a user-defined name for the report. This name is displayed in the My Reports screen.
    Description
    Optionally, specify a description for the report. This description is displayed in the My Reports screen.
  5. Click Publish.