Report extension point

This applies to reports for which a design is present in Infor Reporting and reports that are personalized with Infor LN Report Designer. A report extension can also be used to redirect the data to an alternative report.

Examples:

• To add the CDFs of the Purchase Order Header to the Purchase Order report.
• To write additional rows with data from one of your own tables.
• To run an own Sales Order Acknowledgment report, that deviates completely from the standard one.

When the report is printed data is sent by the LN session to the native LN report. In case of Infor Reporting, the unformatted data of this native LN report serves as a data source. The report extension adds the fields and the rows to this data source.

In case of Infor LN Report Designer, the added fields by the report extension are available as report input fields to be used in the report layouts.

For the report extension point, these extension types exist:

• Report
• Table selection
• Dataset
• Calculated field

This diagram shows the position of the report extension:

When the Report Extension is created, you must change the report design with Infor Reporting’s Report Studio. Or you can use Infor LN Report Designer to add the new fields to the report.

See these guides:

• Infor Enterprise Server Connector for Infor Reporting Development Guide
• Infor LN Report Designer Development Guide