Exposing Report creation to non-designer users?

denhan

I want to expose the functionality of creating new reports to my end-users.

So far, I've managed to build flows that copy a template report inside a designer folder, and use the "Open Designer" flow-step to open the designer interface and in this way "exposing" the designer interface to the non-designer user.

However, there's a few issues with this approach.

• The Studio.css file is not loaded when a non-designer user login to Decisions, which makes this designer interface quite difficult to navigate (although possible).
• The user does not have "Can Use" permissions to the "Local Connection" folder, which makes them unable to add filters and choose new data sources.

We can, of course just include the Studio.css file in the project CSS, but this creates a cumbersome maintenance, when changes are made in newer versions of Decisions.

I guess we could also dynamically give the user permissions to the "Local Connection" folder, but I find this approach to be a "hacky" way of solving the problem.

Perhaps, I am missing an obvious way to achieve this?

What would be the recommended way to expose the report designer to non-designer users?

Thanks!

Manisha_Decisions

Hey,

There’s no built-in or supported way to fully expose the Report Designer to non-designer users. The recommended approach is to use the Report Viewer control for end-users — it supports filtering, exporting, and even inline editing.

For full report creation, Designer permissions are required. Steps like "Open Designer" are intended for designer users, not for end-users.

Refs:

• Report Viewer: https://documentation.decisions.com/docs/report-viewer-control
• Inline Editing: https://documentation.decisions.com/docs/allowing-inline-editing-on-a-report

Manisha_Decisions

Hello,

Just wanted to update here that we've reviewed your requirement on the support ticket and the following setup is recommended:

You can set up a page with a Report Viewer that supports dynamic report selection, along with a Run Flow Part to display a form containing a dropdown for selecting the desired report. Use preconfigured template reports with Dynamic Columns. When end-users define new columns, they can use the "Save Report Definition" feature to save a copy.This will create a new report based on the template in the folder where the page is located.

Thanks.