About Reports
A report is the output of a predefined query that is run at a particular time against a set of business information, often using parameters that are entered at the time the report is run. You can use reports for many purposes, including identifying trends, summarizing information about particular objects, identifying objects in certain states, and so on. Reports can be output in multiple output formats, such as PDF, XML, HTML, and CSV.
Within your Windchill solution, you may encounter reports in a number of locations including the following:
• The
Reports table, available in all application contexts, as well as
Organizations ,
Site ,
Changes , and
Home . For more information, see
Reports Table.
• The
Change Monitor page under
Products and
Libraries . (
Windchill PDMLink only) For more information, see
About Change System Reports.
• The
Project Monitor page under
Projects and
Programs . (
Windchill ProjectLink only) For more information, see
Project Monitoring.
• The
Report Management utility, available from the
Utilities page of any application context, provides the ability to create custom reports within
Windchill, using the
Query Builder report generation utility. The
Query Builder utility is designed to be used by those who have a working knowledge of the
Windchill data object model. For more information, see
Managing Report Templates. (Context administrators only)
• The
Auditing Administration utilities, available from > and > , offer logs and reports that provide information on system auditing activities, such as license usage, records of which user made what changes to a particular object, and other events. For more information, see
About Auditing Administration. (Site and organization administrators only)
If your site has enabled the
Windchill Business Reporting functionality, additional reporting capabilities are available to you, including scheduling reports, reports using charts and graphs, and various delivery options, such as printing and email.
Windchill Business Reporting uses a powerful third-party reporting application that works with your
Windchill data to provide rich and flexible report options. For more information, see
Windchill Business Reporting. (
Arbortext Content Manager,
Windchill PDMLink, or
Windchill ProjectLink only)