List of Reports generated in the Background

eG Enterprise allows users to generate desired reports for a specific time period. In large environments, while generating reports for long time periods, say a few weeks to months, report generation was found to slow down, owing to the large volume of data being processed. If users needed to generate many such reports quickly, the slowdown compelled them to generate these reports one after another, thus affecting the speed of their operations, and consequently, their productivity. eG Enterprise now includes a background processing feature that will enable users to process multiple reports, spanning long time periods in the background, while allowing them the bandwidth to generate short-term reports in the foreground. This way, users can generate multiple reports with little-to-no loss of time.

Whenever a user chooses to generate a report in the background, then, clicking on the Run Report button in that report page will invoke a message indicating that the report is being generated in the background. Clicking on the Click Here hyperlink in that message will lead you to this page, wherein, by default, you can view the status of the background processing of that report alone.

This page also appears when the Saved Reports option is chosen from the Options menu. In this case however, this page will display all the reports that have been / are being processed in the background.

Alongside a report name in this page, you can view when background processing of the report started (Creation Time), the report Timeline, the Date Range for which the report was generated, and the Status of the background processing of the report. Once processing completes, the report is saved as a PDF file.

If the Status column corresponding to a report displays Completed, then, you can view the report as a PDF by clicking on the icon against that report. If for some reason background processing fails, then the Status column will display Failed instead. In this case, you can either regenerate the report in the background, or, delete the report. To regenerate the report, click on the icon, and to delete the report, click on the DELETE button.

If this page lists too many reports, then, you can apply one/more filter criteria on the list, so that you can quickly view information related to only those background reports that are of specific interest to you. For instance, to view the background reports of a particular type alone, select a Report Type from this page. To view details pertaining to all background reports, pick the All Report Types option from the Report Type list.

Similarly, you can view the status of a particular report, by doing the following:

• Pick Report Name from the Filter by list.
• Specify the whole/part of the report name in the Search text box and click the right-arrow button next to it.
• The page will then display the details of only that background report, which has the name provided in the Search text box.

In the same way, you can even search for reports by status. For this, do the following:

• Pick Status from the Filter by list.
• Specify the status to search for in the Search text box and click the right-arrow button next to it.
• The page will then display the details of only those background reports which are in the state provided in the Search text box.

To delete any of the listed reports, click on the check box alongside the report, and then click on the DELETE button in this page. To delete all the listed reports, first, click on the check box adjacent to the column heading, Report Type; this will mark all the reports displayed in this page for deletion. Then, click on the DELETE button.