Reportive Studio
Production
Reportive Studio offers several components dedicated to the production and distribution of data and reports:
- Generators generate the different "pages" of the Excel, Word and Powerpoint reports you have designed.
- Assembly elements put together the various pages according to data axes (e.g. generating an Excel workbook with a tab per product, that contains sales results for this product).
- Converters convert the format of the source document. These elements are used to convert Office documents to PDF, HTML or any other format.
- A file tree prepares the structure of the output directories (e.g. a directory per country/region/county and a file per market or sales rep).
- Distribution elements send the output. Distribution modes include: copying files, sending emails, printing... The open architecture makes it possible to quickly integrate any specific distribution modes at a reduced cost.
- Recipients lists can be static (e.g. firstname.lastname @ company.com) or dynamic, taken from any dataset or from Reportive Studio transformations. Distributing elements by email uses recipients lists as a data source. You can create reports by Country/Region/County and distribute the results to the county managers - and copy their own managers into the emails.
- Collections: these elements make distribution easy as they gather all stages of document distribution within a wizard.
The production of data/documents can be done in several ways:
Running a collection
- Using Reportive Studio: opening the workspace, and manually running the project's final node (collection, exporter, distribution element...).
- Using Microsoft Windows' task scheduler. Reportive Studio can generate the command line you need to execute any node in the project. You can then create a batch file (.BAT or .CMD) containing the list of nodes that you want to run and control the return code to determine if the execution worked properly.
- Using Production Center, when the number of productions is becoming large or if the trigger conditions are complex.
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