The Ad Hoc Editor is used to explore views which in turn can be saved as reports. Such reports can be edited in
, and can be scheduled and added to dashboards.If you have any existing Views to be generated as a report, then perform the following:
Go to the folder where you have saved the View.
Select the View.
Place the cursor on , then select
to save the view as Ad Hoc View and Ad Hoc report.Choose the folder where you want to save the report.
Specify the view name and report name, then click
.The Ad Hoc View is saved as a report, when you want to:
See data in the interactive report viewer.
Perform additional formatting of the table data.
Embed the data content into a dashboard.
To run a report, select a report.
You can view and select the reports using the following methods:
In the Home page, click
.Click
.Click
.Click
.The
panel is displayed. It provides a different view of the same set of files.Click the report name, or right-click the report name, then click
. If you are accessing the report from , select the report row, then click the button.In the Home page, click
.In the
panel, select the View that you want, then click .Place the cursor on , then click
or .Select the folder where you want to save the report.
Perform steps from Step 1 to Step 7, as mentioned in Section 2.2, Creating an Ad Hoc View, and Step 3 to Step 7, as mentioned in
Click the report name, or right-click the report name, then click
. If you are accessing the report from , select the report row, then click the button.NOTE:After creating a report from an Ad Hoc View, a user cannot add or remove objects from that report.
When you create a report from an Ad Hoc View, the report is considered “dependent” on that view.
When you update an Ad Hoc View, its dependent reports are not updated. For example, if you open an Ad Hoc View in the Editor and add a column to it, that column is not displayed in previous reports created from that view. If you want to update reports, you must save the updated view with a different file name.