can end users create their own reports

[tkilshaw]

We intend to develop a CRM kind of application and I am examining Aware IM for suitability. A lot of it looks remarkable good. Our application will be deployed to hundreds, perhaps thousands of dealerships. Each dealership would run its own Aware IM server, and there would be a set of predefined reports already available. But that set of reports will not be enough for every dealer.

How can users of an Aware IM application create their own reports?

Do they need access to Configuration mode and need learn all about that, including the new release process to accomplish this? Or is there another way, and I just haven't read enough of the manuals?

thanks,

Terry

[aware_support2]

Terry,

if your clients only need to find data and are not concerned with how the results are presented they can use queries rather than reports. Aware IM offers several features that let users run dynamic queries, i.e. queries that they define at run time, rather than at the configuration time. These features include the dynamic query builder and also the form-based search where users specify search criteria in object forms. The search results can be easily printed out or exported into a file.

If, however, your clients need to build dynamic reports that have to be presented in a particular way, at the moment they can only do it in the Configuration Tool (which implies creating and publishing a new business space version).

We do plan to add the ability to create documents and reports dynamically without having to change the configuration. This new feature is in our development plan for this year.

[tkilshaw]

Thanks for your reply.

This year is a long time. Care to say which quarter you will have this reporting functionality in?

thanks,

Terry

[aware_support2]

We are planning it around mid-year.

Best Regards

[aware_support]

This has been implemented in version 1.5 (starting from build 760)