A Guided Report is a highly parameterized report that allows you to select fields and options that participate in a report at run time.

Fields and options that have been added to the Guided Report are displayed in controls and are available for selection. Selecting fields from controls and running the report will display the data that correlates to the field values.

The advantage of using a Guided Report is that you can create one streamlined, highly parameterized report, and from that one report you can generate thousands of different report outputs at run time. It requires no knowledge of code to customize the final report with the data you want displayed.

A page with controls for the Guided Report parameters appears so you can customize and run different versions of the report dynamically, as shown in the following image.

For more information on Guided Reports, see the Creating Reports With Report Painter manual.