Surfacing Reports to End-Users

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We shouldn’t be expecting end-users to navigate the Reports & Analytics catalogue to find reports, especially now the ability to hide folders that are irrelevant to HCM / ERP Cloud has been removed.

The easiest option is to create a simple dashboard (or set of dashboards) containing the reports instead. You can embed the actual report output, however that takes a bit more planning, so a quick solution is to just have links to the reports in sections.

Something as basic as this is a good start, and gives end-users single-click access to reports without having to hunt through the catalog.

If you want to get a little more sophisticated, each section can have its own set of permissions so end-users only see the sections within the dashboard that are appropriate for them.

Creating the page and tile for the dashboard in the application takes a few minutes, and the dashboard itself can be added to incrementally as your report suite grows without needing to re-personalise the page.

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