Introduction

The Report Tool is the user interface for creating and maintaining Reports about items and their configurations. The intent of the Report Tool is to offer a very simple user interface for designing Reports.

In technical terms, the Reports are the result of an XSLT transformation of an AML item configuration, which is the result of a query. The Report Tool allows direct editing of the XSLT style sheet.

Reports are relationships on ItemTypes. The Report item has properties that define how to query data for the Report and format it for display. Reports tend to fall into the following types:

• A report about an item and its relationships. For example, a BOM report. These are Item type Reports.
• A static query report about items by ItemType. For example, an Open ECO report. These are ItemType type Reports.
• A dynamic query report about items by ItemType. The user interactively enters query criteria for the report. These are Generic type Reports.