Insights (Business Reporter and Analysis Models, EOI)

Is there a way to restrict a report only to print the 1st page ?

Hello everyone, Looking for some insight on the title. Customer requires BR to generate in CSV format: Report is as follows: They required all approved expense sheet details grouping by Payroll ID and Rate. We had the ability to create an IAL for this data including the grouping as well. The Start and End dates are taken from the same field, Expense Date in IFS where Start Date shows the date for the oldest expense sheet and end date shows the newest expense sheet. However, where we hit a wall was the search parameters were based on the ‘Approve date’ which can carry many different dates so the grouping in the SQL did not work. We decided to create an IAL bearing all the data in the table plus the approve date and decided to perform all the other functions using Excel and it was a success. The report however now contained multiple worksheets and hidden cells of course due to the functions.The current solution we provided was to move all visible cells into a new workbook and save it as

We have a customer on 22R2, hosted in IFS cloud, looking to use Power BI.We’ve read the instructions here https://docs.ifs.com/techdocs/22r2/050_reporting/400_power_bi_int/010_setup_pbi_int/but not sure what customer would do and what would need to be done by IFS managed cloud team.Has anyone done this?Thanks.

Supplier Payment screen (Screen shot below) is missing from Cloud verison.I have below doubts -Although, the related business transaction can be done through mixed payment but what is the reason to discountinue the process.  How previous transaction can be seen in upgraded environment.  Note: Similarly, corresponding screen for customer, names - Customer paymeny is also discontinued.

Hello everyone,  We’re managing permissions for IFS Business Reporter and we’re starting to build more and more reports within the tool. As we’re training up more report designers, we’re running into a bottleneck around permissions management since each report (and each report unpublish / publish event) has to be managed separately.  Thinking about how to solve this, if the report structure within Business Reporter could be an object to manage permissions, this would permit folders to be assigned to a permission set and the report projections underneath them would be inherited by the “folder” level security object.  It seems to be inline with the direction laid out in the technical documentation where a practice recommended is to build a permission set for a given department and assign permissions. The folder structure we’ve built out has naturally fallen along organizational lines and it would simplify the management of report permissions.  It could also remove the tedium of restoring

I am trying to run a report out of Business Reporter, using the GL Transaction info source. If possible, I would like to use the Light Item - Entry Date as a repeater, but only by the day. The system is currently repeating each time stamp. Example, I would like everything by “8/30/24 and 8/31/24” and not “8/30/24 1:23:01PM, 8/30/24 1:23:14PM, 8/30/24 1:25:57PM”. 

I want to add a new field named zip_code in the IFS Report Designer. To do this, I have already added a function and XML in the RPI file. I tested the function and its parameters in SQL, and the zip_code result was returned correctly. However, after saving the RPI file, the zip_code field still does not appear in the IFS Report Designer.I have saved the changes, and there were no error indications. At this stage, I also downloaded the schema in IFS CRP and tried to add it in the IFS Report Designer, but there is no layout available to display the zip_code.Did I miss a step that is causing the zip_code field not to appear when I try to add it? 

Does anyone know how to build IFS Cloud specific user related RLS into the Tabular models?

I'm testing a  Business Reporter , and I've encountered an issue. they receive an empty one.I would be grateful for your assistance

hello,We have a business reporter with 2 parameters: year and period. We will use the scheduled reports option to schedule this report and enter context variables (e.g. #year#, #last month#).using function parameters, we need to figure the year period (yyyymm) which will be used to filter on various report columns (e.g. last period, last year current period etc.). The issue is that if we enter year:2024 and period:7, how can we get business reporter to convert these 2 parameters to year-period value 202407 instead of 20247. Any suggestions? This is in Apps 10 (version 5.0.27).  

I have noticed, when trying solve a users acccess issue for a BR report, that while in IFS Explorer, users can only see and run BR reports that their IFS access allows them to.However, if someone logs in with  the standalone Business Reporter client on their PC, they can access and run all the BR reports in the system, regardless of their IFS user security settings, so the security settings are bypassed altogether.Is this a bug, or is there something that needs configuring in the system to ensure they can only see and run  the same reports in the BR client that they have access to in the IFS Explorer client?IFS Explorer client version: apps 10 update 14, in house installation.Business Reporter client: Apps 10, version 5.0.24Thanks

Hi All, One of our customers would like to connect an existing SQL server data warehouse to their IFS Cloud.  What would be the best approach to do this?We are looking into solutions like, using the APIs, information sources or using IFSINFO user combined with IALs  but haven’t figured out a recommendation from IFS to do this. Thank you all for your input.   

Hello experts According to the IFS Business Reporter designer’s guide we have a helpful functionality called “Highlight” in the Business Reporter. It should highlight the design rows, column and cell criteria with the press of a button and therefore assist during the report creation.  Before:​​​​After: Problem:When I try to use the highlight functionality it doesn’t work. I am in the Design Mode and click on the Highlight button, but nothing happens:  Does anyone have an idea what the issue could be? It happens to me on Apps 10 as well as on IFS Cloud.  Many thanks in advance! Best regards,Lukas

Hello,  We have a report we developed but has a strange column pulling no data, but cannot figure out how to eliminate the unnecessary column  

Hi,A custom filed is used as a business report parameter. LOV of the custom filed is visible when running the report in Business Reporter. However, once the report is published in IFS Cloud, LOV of the parameter is not appearing.Any idea on this issue? Thank you

Hello All,I am modifying quick reports trying to get the enumeration/reference lists to appear in the parameter list.  I have gotten the list to appear, but I have one custom field that doesn’t show the prompt.  It has a prompt in the custom enumeration and on the custom field, so it isn’t simply missing.  All I get is the semi-colon “ : ”.  See below:Either overriding it or getting the correct prompt to show up would fix this problem.I have another report where the entry parameters are to be excluded from the report, so the normal prompt will not work.  In this case I would like to override the normal prompt for only that report.  So it would be something “Exclude These Group ID’s” where the normal prompt is “Group ID”. Thanks,RonV 

Hi BR experts,Could you please advise me on the following issue?When the customer orders the BR report, they get an empty report.But when I order the same report I get the report with data.To investigate the problem, I removed filters from the report one by one, until only the company filter remained. The filter looks like this: DIM_COMPANY.CODE IN &CompanyI defined it with a parameter Company with the default value: 8031,8111,8114,8115. The report appears empty, but when I change the filter to:DIM_COMPANY.CODE IN '8031','8111','8114','8115'with hardcoded values, the report shows data. Have you encountered such an issue? Do you know any solution or workaround on how to define a filter with a multi value parameter so that the report displays data?I would be grateful for any suggestions.Best regards,Adam

Morning!We would like to know any functional enhancements in Business Reporter between Apps 10 (Upd18) and IFS Cloud 23R2?Please can you provide direction to where we can find this summary.Thanks

Hello,1)   How could i add the 3 IFS fields into the information source “QFACT_CUSTOMER_ORDER_INVOICE_LINE”  please. ​​​​​​​ Is there a solution to use them in my BR with my information source “QFACT_CUSTOMER_ORDER_INVOICE_LINE” please  Thank you ! 

Designed Repeater in Rows 7-8​​​Repeater informationMy company has been in IFS for a year now, and we have learned a lot about IFS and Business Reporter. I’ve been recently tasked to start making some of our reports more presentable. In the screenshot above, we have a row repeater over Rows 7-8. We no longer need columns A-D, or current rows 3-6. When I delete any amount of rows above, the repeater stays in row 7-8, but the fields [Structure Node] and [Account] move up, meaning the row design has broken. Deleted the above rows 3-6 After deleting the above rows 3-6 I thought maybe running the report would help the program to reset itself, but it does not. I have found once a file has this issue, it will always have this issue (to my knowledge). I have also seen it in Column Repeaters. We are still relatively new but are having a hard time with editing current reports at times. Is this a bug, or should we be deleting/adding rows/columns differently? I CAN manually edit the start/stops in

Issue Reports created using "GL BALANCE" information source are unable to use "Zoom In" and/or "Drill down" feature. When IFS create a new report using "GL Balance" information source, it works fine on customer's end but when customer creates a new report using the same information source it doesn't work when trying to use "Zoom In" and/or "Drill down" feature.Only difference between the reports created by customer and IFS is the "Project" in the Document Actions is missing.    In the "Dimensions" page, "DIM_PROJECT_CODE" is missing in the customer's environment.   Environment RWGE-CLD-CFGProduct Version: 22.2.10 Cause Further investigations found that the reason for this error is Project component is not activated in customer's environment. Resolution IFS Fixed Version: 22.2.20 - 22R2 SU20, 23.1.13 - 23R1 SU13, 23.2.6 - 23R2 SU6, 24.1.0 - 24R1 GA, 24.2E.0 - 24R2 EAhttps://ifsdev.atlassian.net/browse/EIZBR-2731

Hello,We are using IFS v10 and I want to add media or documents to the pdf report. When we want to print a report on the Work Order screen, it gives us the option to add the added media or document, but even though I add the document, I cannot see the added media in the pdf report it creates.Can you help me 

Hi everyone, I’m a new user on IFS cloud and I can’t connect on Business Reporter. On my test environment everything is OK however on the production environment it’s impossible. I have this message “Oops! Something went wrong - Invalid parameter : redirect_uri”. Do you have an idea in order to help me. 

Hello,I am running a tabular model deployment for one of our customers and i get below error,  i think the issue is due to the fact that they have multiple instances in their SQL Server and the Environment Parameters are set up like below,SQL_SERVER_NAME          12.1.2.12\IFSPRODBIand it finds the backslash as an escape character. Is there a workaround for this? Does IFS support multiple SQL Instances setup like above? 

Hello,I get below error when trying to run a refresh category,Error while refreshing Data Mart Source (BUSINESS_ACT_REF_MVT) - IsMvUtil.MSSCOLINFO: Column info is missing for entity "FACT_BUSINESS_ACT_REF" and source table "BUSINESS_ACTIVITY_TAB"Any idea what could be the reason?