[IFS/BA Designer Help Guide]

Bulk Save and Republish BA Reports

Explanation

This activity is used to resave or republish BA reports that were previously saved or published. This is usually done in order to save any corrections of errors that are identified after the previously saved/published BA reports were validated.

Prerequisites

In order to perform this activity, a previously saved/published BA report should be saved in your hard drive.

System Effects

As a result of this activity, selected BA reports will be resaved/republished with any changes you have made. The status of the report will change as follows.

Report Successfully Saved/Republished? Status
Yes The status of the report will be indicated in green.
No An error message will be displayed and the status of the report will be indicated in red.

Related Process Models

Manage Publicized Reports

Related Activity

Report Manager

Procedure

To bulk save/republish BA reports:

  1. Open the Report Manager dialog box and click on the Bulk Save and Republish Reports tab.
  2. Click Browse to enter the file path to the location where you have saved the BA reports to be resaved/republished. All the BA reports saved in that location will be displayed.
  3. Select the reports you want to resave/republish. You can save/republish all the reports displayed in the tab by selecting the check box in the header of the File Path column. If you want to republish all the published reports, select the Select All Published Reports option. If you want to resave all the saved reports, select the Select All Saved Reports option. You can also manually select one or more individual reports.
  4. Click Save/Republish.