I'm looking through the WF 7.1 manual for MRE and I am trying to understand the user privileges that can be given to users. The manual says you can give the user the privilege to Save My Reports which appear under the My Reports tab. I understand this. However, there is this other privilege called Advanced which allows a user to create Custom Reports that will also appear under the My Reports tab.

I don't see what the difference is between these two privileges since both allow a user to save reports onto their My Reports tab.

I guess I need to know what the difference is between a normal My Report and a Custom Report?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

user-saved reports created by using a reporting object and then SAVEd MY REPORTS can't be opened to view the text, and must start with a reporting object, and will be saved only under the reporting object's own heading in the MY REPORTS area.
Custom Reports (an advanced user feature)does not fall within any given reporting object's own heading, doesn't start with a reporting object,and is totally do-it-yourself, and all the code can be read in the text editor.
What's missing here is the middle ground...
whats missing is a way for the user to move a report FROM the reporting objects area (where you can't edit the code..for good reason) to the Custom Reports area, where the user could edit the code, at least view it, never open it in report assistant again..which is fine...
but this would allow users to begin to LEARN how to code in focus...to actually see whats going on. In Custom, if a user picks report assist, they start with a list of EVERY master that is on the edapath...just as if they were an admin in Domain Builder....So, Custom Reports i use to build special things for special smart users..that they can then edit themselves. But its only available on THEIR my reports..and not to others.

Great! Thanks for the enlightenment. I will have to give this a test drive to see how it does.

FYI, It looks like you can share the Custom Reports as well, just like sharing a normal My Report.

yes indeed, that would be the user's choice...In your test driving, see if you can figure out a way for a user to build a fex from a reporting object, and then somehow move it to the custom area and be able to crack it open...
That would be the greatest thing... and a reason for upgrading ...

Susannah,

You mentioned, "In Custom, if a user picks report assist, they start with a list of EVERY master that is on the edapath...just as if they were an admin in Domain Builder...."

I created a new user and can create new reports under Domain Builder using report assist, the list of masters appear from which the user can select. However, when the user goes into custom and creates a new report using report assist, the list of master files is blank. The user can't choose anything. Is there something I missed?

my site is:711 win2k,self-serve,mre (not yet live)

depends on the path, dballest.
whatever is the default path, either for your entire site, or for that domain.
If you're showing nothing at all available to the Custom Report user, then i'm a bit puzzled how your Reporting Objects are showing up to your RA user. At least the same Reporting Object Masters should be showing up. Sounds like you could benefit from having TechSupport sign in with you and have a look at your path setup, they'll be able to give you the right answer right away.

Thanks, it is strange. Let me give the TechSupport people a call.

Mickey, susannah,
The "Advanced" privilege allows the user to create their own reports from scratch, including joins using Report Assist. They are not restricted to the Reporting Objects, which is why they are defined as Custom.

Users that have the "Save Reports" privilege can also save their reports, but they are restricted to Reporting Objects.

Hope that helps clarify!

We found out what's causing the list of masters not appearing in under the Domains tab vs Domain builder tab using Report assist in MRE.

The problem was traced to the remarks portion on the master description being enclosed in double quotes. We replaced them with single quotes and the masters appear. Only 1 master having this scenario will cause the whole list of masters not to show up under that domain.

Dan