Friday, 24 July 2015

Type of Reports in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

Drilldown reports

Drilldown reports must retrieve all possible data that can be shown in the report. For reports that use large amounts of data, consider drillthrough reports instead.

Subreports

A subreport is a report item that you add to a report as a layout element. A subreport points to a different report and displays inside the body of a main report as an subreport instance.


Main/detail reports and drillthrough reports

A main/detail report solution includes a main report that displays summary information with hyperlinks to one or more reports that display detailed information.

Linked reports

A linked report is a report server item that contains a pointer to the report definition but has its own set of report properties and settings. These include security, parameters, location, subscriptions, and schedules.

History reports

Report history is a collection of report snapshots. You can use report history to maintain a record of a report over time.

Cached reports

A cached report is a saved copy of a compiled report and report data. Cached reports are used to improve performance by reducing the number of processing requests to the report processor and by reducing the time that is required to retrieve large report datasets.

Snapshots

A report snapshot is a report that contains layout information and query results that were retrieved at a specific point in time.

Model reports and Clickthrough reports

(i) Report model :A report model is a user-friendly description of an underlying database, with pre-established data relationships and auto-generated queries. Report models can be used as data sources for reports created in Report Designer and Report Builder.

(ii)Clickthrough report : A clickthrough report is a report that displays related data from a report model when you click the interactive data contained in the model-based report. Clickthrough reports are autogenerated.

Saved reports

A saved report is a report definition (.rdl) file. A report definition can be saved locally or uploaded to a report server.

Published reports

A published report is a report server item that you publish to a report server from a Reporting Services tool.
  

Upgraded reports

An upgraded report is a published report definition that is converted to a newer schema when a report server is upgraded from one version of Reporting Services to a later version. The original report definition is preserved. The report is upgraded in memory, compiled, and the compiled version is saved internally.

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