Publishing query on web

[Former Member]

Hello,

I have published about 3 queries on web....gave the link to the users....all the reports have similar selections but different structures inside them.......the link does not tell anything about what report they are running....as soon as they click on the link they login and they see the selection screen...the selection screen also does not tell them what report they are giving the selections for until they execute it...is there a way to give in a title or something to make it more obvious that they are entering the selections for a balance sheet report or a P&L report or whatever report it is ?

would appreciate your suggestions...

Kamal

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

The technical name of the web template should be at the end of the link. Couldn't that be used to identify the reports?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Yes the technical name is there on the link....but is there a way to put the name of the report on the page where you have the selection screen ???

Like a description instead of a technical name

Message was edited by: Kamal K

[Former Member]

Well, I tested here and the title of the variable selection screen says something along the lines of "Variable entry for <Template Name>".

So I guess changing the name (description) of the template could help.

[Former Member]

Hello Gilberto,

My report is a P & L report...

the title says 'variables for Ad-Hoc report'

any instructions on how to change this to display as

'variable for P&L report' ??

Thanks

[Former Member]

Perhaps I misunderstood: is it an adhoc query? If it is, then I don't think you can change the title (I'm not sure, though).

On the other hand, if it is a "normal" query (created on Query Designer), then do the following (if you haven't already): go to Web Application Designer, add the table web item, and associate it to your query. Then, when saving the Web Template, what you write in the "Description" field is what appears on the variable entry box.

To get the link to the template you created, choose menu Publish, then "Copy URL to clipboard".

[Former Member]

hello gilberto...

i tried to follow your instructions...

when i give in the description and the technical name...and try to save it...it says

Object name check was not successful

The object cannot be processed due to a transport problem

[Former Member]

I tried to search for notes with those phrases and found nothing... I'm not sure what that error means; perhaps some of the gurus here can help. Are you creating the web template on the dev system or in production?

[Former Member]

test system