Management Reporter User Guide Microsoft Corporation

Published: March 2013

Management Reporter for Microsoft Dynamics ERP

Management Reporter User Guide

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Management Reporter User Guide

Contents

Introduction to the Management Reporter User Guide ................................................................................ 1

Management Reporter overview ................................................................................................................... 3

Components of Management Reporter ..................................................................................................... 4

Account systems ........................................................................................................................................ 5

Fully qualified account system ................................................................................................................ 5

Dimension-based account system .......................................................................................................... 5

Migrating from Microsoft FRx to Management Reporter .......................................................................... 8

Management Reporter administration .......................................................................................................... 9

Security, user roles, and permissions ....................................................................................................... 10

Users in Management Reporter ............................................................................................................ 11

Manage users .................................................................................................................................... 14

Manage user groups ......................................................................................................................... 15

Report library security ........................................................................................................................... 16

Change report library permissions .................................................................................................... 18

Reset password for company access .................................................................................................... 19

Lock a building block ............................................................................................................................ 19

Maintaining company information (data provider) .................................................................................. 21

Select a default company ..................................................................................................................... 23

Manage access to a company ............................................................................................................... 23

View log files ............................................................................................................................................ 25

Building blocks and reports ......................................................................................................................... 27

Building blocks of a report ....................................................................................................................... 28

Building block groups .............................................................................................................................. 29

Create and assign a building block group ............................................................................................ 29

Maintain building block groups ............................................................................................................ 30

Row definitions ............................................................................................................................................ 32

Contents of a row definition ..................................................................................................................... 33

Row definition cells .................................................................................................................................. 34

Specify a row code in row definition .................................................................................................... 34

Description cell in row definition .......................................................................................................... 35

Add a format code ................................................................................................................................ 36

Related formulas/rows/units ................................................................................................................. 38

Use a row total in a row definition .................................................................................................... 39

Relate a format row to an amount row ............................................................................................. 40

Select the base row for a column calculation .................................................................................... 41

Select a sorting code for a row definition ......................................................................................... 43

Select Format Override cell in row definition ........................................................................................ 46

Change Normal Balance cell in row definition ...................................................................................... 48

Row modifier in row definitions ............................................................................................................ 49

Use row modifier to override row information .................................................................................. 50

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Link to Financial Dimensions cell in a row definition ............................................................................ 51

Display zero balance accounts in a row definition ............................................................................ 52

Wildcards and ranges in row definitions ........................................................................................... 52

Add or subtract from other accounts in a row definition .................................................................. 54

Add dimension sets in a row definition ............................................................................................. 55

Column definitions ...................................................................................................................................... 58

Contents of a column definition ............................................................................................................... 59

Specify a column type in a column definition .......................................................................................... 62

Financial Dimensions column ............................................................................................................... 64

Apply an attribute filter in a column definition ................................................................................. 66

Apply a dimension filter in a column definition ................................................................................ 67

Format a multiple currency report in a column definition ................................................................. 68

Calculation column in a column definition ........................................................................................... 70

Specify report cells in a column calculation ............................