Admins and Account Owners can now edit, clone, save and share report definitions for reports that are built in the reporting engine. 

How do I save and share reports?  

In order to save a report to your favorites, you will follow the same process in the reporting engine to Select Report-> Select Fields -> Filter -> Preview and Export.  On the final Export step, the Schedule Export tab will now include the options to:  

• Build and Save the report which will save the report to your favorites. You can find your favorite reports on the reports dashboard 
• Share the report in edit or view only mode with other users 

Where can the saved views be accessed? 

The saved reports can be accessed via the Reports page -> Manage Reports (My Saved/ Favorite Reports) widget.  The widget will display the 5 most recently added reports, but by clicking on the button to “Show all scheduled reports” you can access and manage all the saved report definitions.  

Both the widget and the new page  have tabs to view the reports that are either created by the account owner/admin logged in "Created by me" or  that have been shared with the account owner/admin "Shared with me".

 

 The widget will display the 5 most recently added reports, but by clicking on the button to “Show all scheduled reports” you can access and manage all the saved report definitions.  

The following Report types exist in this widget and on the page: 

1. Reporting Engine - User will have the ability to edit, clone, delete the report based on the permission
2. Quick Reports - User can continue to view the report or delete the scheduled report from the widget or the new page
3. Legacy Reports -  User can continue to view the report or delete the scheduled report from the widget or the new page

 

How can I edit an existing report?

 To edit an existing report, click on the pencil icon as indicated below.

 

How can I clone an existing report?

 To clone an existing report, click on the clone icon as indicated below.

This creates a copy of the existing report and renames it to the Original Report Name (2).  The cloned report will copy all the fields, filters, scheduling options of the original report but will NOT copy the share settings or the email to setting. The cloned version "Email to" will only include the email of the person who created the report. 

 

How can I share an existing report?

Reports can only be shared with Account Owners and Admins.  This essentially allows the other Account owners and admins to view or edit the report in the report builder.  To share a report, you will follow the same process in the reporting engine to Select Report-> Select Fields -> Filter -> Preview and Export.  On the final Export step, the Schedule Export tab will now include the option "Share Report".  The default permission selected is read only for all users that the report is shared with unless this is intentionally changed.

Edit Access

If a report is shared in edit mode, the person with whom the report is shared with has the ability to:

1. Edit the report fields, filters, schedule, email recipients. Changes made by one user will take effect for all users with whom the report is shared with.
2. Download the report
3. Clone the report
4. Delete the report

Read-only Access 
If a report is shared in read only mode, the person with whom the report is shared with has the ability to

1. View the report definition and filters but cannot change anything
2. Download the report
3. Clone the report 

 

The person with whom the report has been shared will see the following options to view or clone the report: 

 

 

How can I delete an existing report?

To delete an existing saved report, simply click on the delete icon as shown below. Please note, if you delete the report, you will delete this for all the people that the report has been shared with as well. 

What logging is available for the reports and where can this be accessed?

Once you access the Manage Reports page you can view the "Recent Activity" on the right of the page. This will show the 5 most recent entries and includes a link to access the complete listing of the logs. 

Logs will exist for the following activities:

1. Report Schedule Created by User X
2. Report Schedule Updated by User X
3. Report Schedule Deleted by User X

Clicking on the link to the activity log will take the account owner/admin to the logging page and default the filter to settings. Here you can view all logs pertaining to settings including the updates and deletions for the Learning paths, teams, courses, modules, reports etc. 

 

 

FAQ

What happens to the existing reports that are scheduled prior to this new feature? So you do not lose sight of those pre-existing reports you have already scheduled and receive, you can view a listing of all the existing saved views that you currently receive via email.  However, you can only perform a delete action on these existing views to ensure you are not receiving multiple emails for the same reporting view. 

How does this affect the scheduled reports for the Team Leads/Team Admins? The team leads/admins will continue to see the Legacy and Quick reports in the Manage Reports widget. Nothing changes for the team leads/admins.

 

When I edit an existing saved report and click on download now without saving on the schedule report tab? Clicking on the download now on an existing saved report will retain/save the changes and will be reflected in the download.