Report Owners are used to specify the owner of the reports
being documented by Extract. They are used exclusively in the Access
database, and are used to join reports together based on their
owner. This allows users to run reports off of the Access
database, and group their documented reports by report owners.
An example of how Report Owners are useful is in the following
situation:
You are a Crystal Reports consultant and you develop reports
for multiple clients. For documentation compliance, you set
the "Report Owner" in Extract, and then use Extract
to generate documentation on your reports to show the customers
the information contained in the report as well as how the
report will display the report data.
You would then like to take an inventory of all reports created
for each client. You could simply open the Report Miner Suite,
click on "Reports" in the top menu, then select
"Reports by Owner". This will open up a predefined
Crystal Report which will display all reports created grouped
by the Report Owners. Alternatively, you could simply query
the Access database directlry to view all reports grouped
by their owner.
The Report Owners Settings screen used to manage Report Owners
is shown below. To set the Report Owner for reports to be
processed by Extract, you would use the "Settings"
screen:
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