Working with Actuate e.Report Designer Professional

A report developer uses Actuate e.Report Designer Professional to design, build, and distribute structured content. The content can be a richly formatted report, a library of reusable report components, or a template for building reports. You can use specialized report components, such as charts and cross tabs, to display data in the format of your choice. You can use page-level security to ensure that data is available only to those individuals authorized to view or work with the data. After you create and preview a report design, you can use e.Report Designer Professional to generate the output and publish the executable file to Actuate iServer.

You can create a report using a wizard or you can start with a basic report and add components in the design environment.

This chapter introduces the tasks involved in creating a report using a wizard. You learn how to:

n	Configure a data source.

n	Access a configuration file to make report components available to your report.

n	Set up the report environment.

n	Design a report that uses data from a single table.

n	Design a report that groups data from three tables.

n	Enhance the appearance of the report.

n	Run the report.

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