Example: Create an Operational Expenses Report
This example illustrates how to create a report that displays operational expenses for a given time period and level.
You want to view your operational expenses for the current month and the year to date, focused on your Engineering level. You want your report viewers to be able to adjust which Engineering level data they view. You create a matrix report with operational expenses as the rows and current month and year-to-date as columns.
Security:
- Access Reportspermission.
- Create Personal Reportspermission.
- Create Shared Reportspermission.
- SelectReportsfrom the main menu.
- Click .
- From theElementstab, expand and add these elements:
- Operational Expenses account to the rows.
- Period to Date and the current month time periods to the columns.
- Engineering level into theFilterssection.
- Right-click the Year to Date element and selectProperties. Set theYear to date as ofto the current month so year to date is consistent with current month. ClickApply.
- Drag and drop Level from theFilterssection to theParameterssection.
- ClickRun reportto display the data in the report viewer.
- Save the report.