Configuring Reports — Combined Reports

The Combined Reports page of the New/Edit Report Configuration dialog box defines how to combine reports. This type of report can be used to merge multiple reports into a single file or send multiple files in the same email.

Combined reports are used to connect other reports in one of two ways:

• Deliver the output of multiple reports to the same location (such as an email)
• Merge multiple reports into a single file (Excel or PDF)

Combined reports

If you create a combined report using the Deliver reports as separate files and you configure the report to deliver to a file system, a sub-folder will be created at the specified location using the name of your combined report. So, if you have a combined report called "My Combo Report" and you tell it to write to "C:\Reports" all outputted report files will be delivered to C:\Reports\My Combo Report.

If you configured your combined report to email, all files will be attached to a single email.

By default, individual reports of a combined report are executed in parallel to increase performance. Complex SQL reports can take up a lot of CPU, so running them as a combined report can be problematic. You can choose to run combined reports in series. This will take a little longer to run, but will allow large combined reports to run without issue.Specify the names of the reports you want to combine and indicate if you want reports to Build in series.

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