Eclipse Reports uses your company's real-time data to provide you accurate information about your business in a format that you choose. Use Eclipse Reports to collect and format that data to answer your business questions by building a report that exactly fits your needs. You can begin creating reports without any setup in the system. You do not need to know control maintenance records, system file structures, or dictionary items to build a report. In addition, you do not need to understand how to select data from the Eclipse database.
Important: Your company must be running Solar Eclipse to use Eclipse Reports.
As you create your report, the web-based system uses live data from your database to show you a sample report. This sample view helps you decide what data you want to include on the report. For example, you may need to run a product sales report, but want to eliminate one of the cost columns. You can apply post-filters to reports to make smaller reports. For example, you run a sales report, but then can filter the report for each salesperson.
In addition, by creating templates, Eclipse Reports provides a way to repeat or rerun a report without having to define parameters each time. Also, you can organize your reports by those that you run most often. You can change how your reports are handled by making them exclusive to a specific set of users, or you can make a report public so that everyone can has access to the report that you build.
You can also restrict access to who can pull certain types of data. Use any usual authorization keys to make sure that only authorized individuals can add restricted information, such as costing, to reports.
The system defaults to a home page that displays what reports are running or are scheduled to run, a list of reports that you have marked as favorites, a list of all reports available to you, and any report templates that you have made.
You can use a current report to create smaller reports based on the data that you have already collected and because the system refreshes the report information with data from your own business, the reports are always up to date. For example, you can create a report pulling all open purchase orders. Then you can use that report to create smaller reports by writer or inside salesperson. This functionality lets you filter the data precisely.
Important: We recommend opening Eclipse Reports through the Solar application. If you do not, the system uses a separate license to run Eclipse Reports.
Eclipse Reports does not replace Report Writer. If you have reports created using Report Writer and you want to transition them to Eclipse Reports, you need to recreate them in Eclipse Reports. Although you can leave all your reports currently scheduled through Report Writer, we recommend moving any reports that you run frequently to Eclipse Reports. You can use Report Writer and Eclipse Reports on the same system at the same time, if necessary. With the advanced features of Eclipse Reports, we recommend using the application for any new reports you design.