Webreports are used to obtain a set of statistics about a collection of
business objects or connections. The administrative definition of a webreport
includes:
- Search criteria which specifies the full set of objects to be
examined.
- One or more groupby criteria which specify how to organize the
objects into groups.
- One or more data expressions to be calculated on each group. These
are expressions suitable for evaluating against a collection of business
objects - such as count, average, maximum, minimum, and so on.
Once a webreport is created, it can be evaluated to produce a webreport
result, which consists of both the organized set of data values and objects for
the subgroups. It can be saved to the database (with or without the
corresponding business objects), if desired. Webreport results can also be
archived and a webreport can store any number of archived results as well as a
single result referred to as "the result".