Creation of a Link to a Report

It is possible to create one report and several links to this report in different folders. That might be useful in the case if you have several departments, each department has its own folder, and the administrator does not want to create the same report multiple times in every folder:

The edit form of the link looks like this:

in this form we have to fill in the following fields:

• Name: set up either a new report name, or use the name of the report;
• Folder: choose the folder where the link will be located;
• Report: select the report to which the link will point;
• Status: if you select “use report status”, then the status of the report will be applied. Otherwise, the link will have its own status;
• Notes: the principle is the same as for status.

The last thing to do will be setting access rights for users and administrators for this report.

If you set up access rights for administrators using the button , then the access rights will be set on the report itself (but not on the link).

Let us show it on example. Let us create a link on a report for some group of top managers. First let us create a folder where the links will be:

Then we will set up access rights on this folder for concrete managers or some role where the managers are included. The next step is the creation of the report link:

In the edit window let us select the folder for the link:

Then we select the report itself:

The rest parameters will be like that:

Then the software will offer you to set up access rights on reports, and after that we’ll get a link in the folder:

We can see a notification below which tells us that if we have several links to one report and if we edit a report version at one location (under any of the links), we will get changes in the report itself, but not in the link.

If you delete a report or a folder with a report which has links to it, BAT will warn you that it will also delete all links which point to this report.