Report grouping

Hello all, I'm an IPA developer and infor admin who just had a discussion with a group of users on how to best group their BI EPM reports. They basically want to have them all run at the same time with the same parameters on-demand (not scheduled).

Can someone point me in the right direction to address this request?

I'm browsing through the wiki and documentation here to see what I can find as well of course. I see that there is a BI Application Studio, but I don't seem to have access to that in the 9box/waffle menu and I'm not having any luck setting it up as non-infor provisioned app (will open an inc for that). Is it a client only app or is it something I should be able to access through the web interface?

We're an MT deployment.

Any information or pointers are appreciated, thank you!

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Nathan Hewat

That requirement is likely best met via the use of the Report Book feature in Application Studio. Here's the documentation page for Report Books:

docs.infor.com/.../default.html

There are several possibilities to learn more on this:

Many Infor GPS consultants have a deep knowledge of how best to meet any reporting need using the Application Studio.
There are many hours of training content available (for free) here on the EPM Wiki: community.infor.com/.../application-studio.
Infor Education offer a good 2-day Application Studio course.

Best

Nathan

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Rebecca Derr

Thanks Nathan, Report Books were what I had initially found which led me to looking for Application Studio. Glad to know I'm headed the right direction. Is Application Studio client only? The video I was watching looked like the presenter was using an application installed on their computer as opposed to a web app.

Nathan Hewat

It's a Windows client application that's used to create and manage reports served up via EPM Platform's web front-end. All of the standard reports of the EPM Platform Applications are built with it.

The required installer and connection profile files for it are available from the Farm Administration | Client Access dashboard in the EPM Administration application:

Rebecca Derr

Thanks for the confirmation on that. Our org is very locked down as far as installations are concerned so I was really hoping for a web interface.

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