Report Maintenance Console

Console menu options

From the Report Maintenance console you can perform the following functions. Select the report and then click the following menu options:

• Run Report (generate output): This option creates an HTML, PDF, or CSV version of the report.

• View report: Look at report output on your screen or save it to a file one format at a time.

• New Report: Create a new report definition. When you click this option, you will go to a menu for selecting the type of report you want to create and then to the parameter screen for the report.

• Edit Report: You can edit the definition for any existing report; any edits you make will take effect immediately and overwrite the previous version. (You will also have to run the report again to generate a new output file.)

• Delete Report: Deletes the selected report, both the definition in the Logan database and the output.

• Refresh: Use this option to see if a report that you have generated has completed processing or to apply the changes that you made after editing the configuration of a particular report (More details about report status types follow).

• Close: Ends the Report Maintenance session and returns you to the Lawson Security Administrator main menu.

Report attributes

The Report Maintenance console lists reports that have been defined, whether they have been generated or not. (Reports remain on the console until an administrator deletes them.)

Following are the meanings of the columns in the console:

• Name: The name of the report that was assigned when the definition was created.

• Type: The type of report (for example, Security Class Report, Segregation of Duties Report, and so on) abbreviated to save space.

• Modified: The date the report was created or most recently modified.

• Modified by: The user ID of the current owner of the report. The user ID of the person who most recently edited a report becomes the owner.

• Status: The current status of the report. (Meanings of the various statuses are in a later section.)

Status types

A report can have any of the following statuses in the Status column in the Reports Maintenance console:

• Blank (no status): The report has not yet been generated. (To generate it, select it and then select Run Report from the menu.)

• Processing: The report is in the process of generating. Do not access it until it is completed.

• Completed: An output file(s) was successfully generated. (A successfully generated report could have no data or unexpected data. If your report output is not what you expect, edit it to review and change the parameters and then run it again.)

• Failed: The report was not able to generate. This could be the result of many things, for example, your security server was down or did not respond prior to a timeout. Check your system and then attempt to run the report again.