Specifications

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QuickViews are shortcuts to the form created by the DataBlock Designer, so there isn’t
much more you can do other than create it. If you click Edit Report you can edit the report.
The Design button is grayed out and you don’t have access to it. There are a few tabs: the
Refresh, API, and Saved States.
Figure 12 – Editing the details of the QuickView Report
Refresh Tab
The Refresh tab allows you to refresh the variables within the DataBlock. This is mostly
only useful for Dashboards.
API Tab
The API tab is part of the optional Advanced Reporting module. API stands for Application
Programming Interface which allows a report to be called from a web page or portal, or
even a third party application. Only Administrators can configure and access the API tab.
Making a report API accessible is a very useful feature when you want people to have
access to a report created by Argos, but you don’t want to give them Argos access. All the
different types of reports, QuickView, CSV, Banded, Extract can be called using the API.
Making a report API accessible does have significant security implications, which is why it
can only be done by an Administrator.
In-
Product Help has a complete
description of the API