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Generating Larger Reports
The more records you include in your report, the longer the report will take to gen-
erate. During report generation, you can use other AMS applications; however,
you can generate only one report at a time in the Reports application. If you define
a report that will take more than 30 minutes to generate based on the records
included, the software will present the following message:
In the example, AMS detected that the defined report contains over 30,000 re-
cords and will take more than 30 minutes to generate. If this is acceptable, simply
select Yes and the report will be generated. Select No if this is an inconvenient
time to generate the report, or review your report definitions to see if you can fur-
ther filter the report and still get the information you need. When you select Yes,
the report begins to generate and AMS displays the Elapsed Time as the report
runs.
Printing and Exporting Reports
Once you are satisfied with your report, you can print to a local or networked
printer, or export the report in several formats. Your results will be determined
by the options you select and how you wish to use the data. For example if you
export to a Microsoft Excel file, you may get a different formatting result than if
you export to an Adobe Acrobat file or print directly from AMS. However, you may
wish to export to an Excel file and use the data in another format. The following
example was printed from an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file exported from Reports. It
retains all the formatting as displayed in Reports.