The Reporting Agent is a tool used to schedule reporting functions in the background.

The following functions are available:

• Evaluating exceptions
• Printing queries
• Pre-calculating Web templates
• Pre-calculating characteristic variables of type pre-calculated value sets.
• Pre-calculation of queries for Crystal reports
• Managing bookmarks

2. You assign the individual settings to scheduling packages for background processing.

3. You schedule scheduling packages as a job or within a process chain.

The Reporting Agent interfaces are made up of two tree structures in the functional areas Exceptions, Print, Web Templates, and Value Sets.

• The left-hand tree gives you an overview of the available objects as well as the settings that have already been made. To give you a better overview, you can filter according to queries with settings in the Exceptions and Print functions.

• The right-hand tree gives you an overview of the scheduling package and manages the background processing.

The following graphic gives an overview of the different functional areas for the Report Agent and its integration: