What is the Report Designer?
The Report Designer enables you to view and design text column, text row, graph and diagram reports. Each module in Availability Workbench is supplied with a set of pre-defined reports. Alternatively the user may modify these reports, create their own reports based on copies of the pre-defined reports, or create entirely new reports.
The reports obtain their source data from a SQL compatible database, which is intelligently updated with the application data when a report is opened. SQL queries ranging from simple single table queries to complex union and multi-join queries can be used to interrogate the database.
In addition to displaying the actual report data, the user may display information ranging from the date, time and page numbers to complex SQL queries using report macros.