About ReportCaster

In this section:

With ReportCaster, you can

Note: Only ReportCaster administrators can create ReportCaster users and groups, access the Library Management interface, and access the ReportCaster Configuration settings.

The Managed Reporting Analytical User can create a schedule for Standard Reports or their own My Reports using the ReportCaster Scheduling tool, which you can access from the Business Intelligence Dashboard and Managed Reporting Domains environments. Once you have created the schedule, you can access the ReportCaster HTML User Interface to edit the properties of the schedule, delete the schedule, or run a log report to obtain information about the schedule. Additionally, you can purge log records to conserve space in the log file, check the status of scheduled jobs that are in the ReportCaster Distribution Server queue, and create, update, and delete an Execution ID, which is a valid user ID that is used to run a schedule on a specified server.

Report Library. The Report Library enables you to store and manage content distributed by ReportCaster for rapid retrieval and future use. For more information about the Report Library, see the ReportCaster Development and Library Content manual.

ReportCaster API. There is a full ReportCaster API that employs both Java technology and Web Services. The ReportCaster API provides complete ReportCaster functionality for self‑service users. The ReportCaster API is fully upward compatible with the ReportCaster Bean, Servlet, and Subroutine APIs, and is partially backward compatible. For more information about the ReportCaster API, see the ReportCaster API Developer's Reference manual.


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Accessing ReportCaster

ReportCaster provides a Development Interface, an Administration Interface, and the Report Library. You can access these from the WebFOCUS Welcome Page, under the ReportCaster section, as shown in the following image.

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You can also access the ReportCaster Development Interface and the Report Library from the Business Intelligence Dashboard through the Tools menu.


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ReportCaster User Interface and Scheduling Tool Types

As a ReportCaster administrator, you can control the type of ReportCaster user interface and Scheduling tool (the standard version or a custom version of the new HTML Scheduling tool) made available to all ReportCaster users. These options are available in the WebFOCUS Administration Console, under the ReportCaster settings. For details on these settings, see the WebFOCUS Security and Administration manual. For details on creating a custom Scheduling tool template, see the ReportCaster Configuration section of the WebFOCUS and ReportCaster Installation and Configuration manual for your platform.


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