Introduction

A common goal of report design is providing a single report that can service very specific reporting requirements and also accommodate a large audience of business users. Parameter fields enable you to satisfy this requirement and provide three primary benefits:

  • An additional level of interactivity for business users when viewing reports. A sales report can prompt a business user for her specific district or territory.

  • Ability to segment reports in many different ways to reduce the number of reports necessary to service the demands of the business users. A sales report can be segmented by district to service the needs of all district-level business users with one report.

  • Greater control over the report query for administrators by ...

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