Customization Options for Standard IFS Cloud Operational Report Definitions

Hi ​@Mahendra Remata 

It’s not possible to customize the standard reports directly, but what you can do is, make the same folder structure in Cust layer and copy the standard .report, .xsd and .rdf files in same structure and do your changes.
For the layout you can edit the standard layout or you can go with your custom layout.

Thanks & Regards,
Asanka.

​@Mahendra Remata 

If you have access to the report definition files and the IFS developer studio, you technically can modify the IFS operational reports. If you are hosting your IFS cloud instance, you can deploy the modified report definitions directly from the developer studio, or by creating a delivery through the build place and installing the delivery.

Regardless if you do modify any reports, ensure you check them into your customer solution repository so that whenever you do service updates or release updates you can see that your changes are being overwritten. 

Otherwise you can just copy all the report files to create your custom version, and then you don’t have to worry it being overwritten.

There are also other options depending on the extent of changes you require in your report. For example many reports allow you to add custom fields if the report contains the entity containing the field and it is built to expose custom fields. Theres a flag in the entity configuration attribute creation that will say you want the field visible on reports. (The field still needs to manually be added to the report layout). This is the least invasive way to add things to the report, so if you can get away with custom fields thats a good option.

But if you need more complex logic changes to the report doing it via the dev studio is the way to go. I recommend the IFS academy course on IFS reports if you have not taken it discussing the different report files, their roles, and how to maintain them.

Thanks, 

LEDWARDS
 

Do you have any specific idea of the changes you’d like to make? Maybe with more detail the community can recommend a targeted approach that would be best for you