Applications

You can specify default settings for viewing and printing pages of a report at the Content Manager OnDemand application level. For example, if you select a default printer for the application, when a user prints a document that is associated with the application, Content Manager OnDemand sends the document to the printer that you specified. Typically you define an application for each different report that you plan to load into the system.

When you create an application, you specify properties of the input data (such as whether the data contains carriage control characters, and the record format of the input data). Content Manager OnDemand uses the information that you specify to properly interpret the data for viewing.

The Content Manager OnDemand application is where you specify information to the indexing and data loading programs, such as the technique that Content Manager OnDemand uses to compress the report file, the parameters used to index the data, and information that Content Manager OnDemand uses to process index data before loading index records into the database. Content Manager OnDemand uses the indexing parameters, options, and data values that you specify to locate index data in and extract index data from the report.

You can set up one or more logical views of a report. A logical view determines how Content Manager OnDemand displays line data reports and governs other viewing characteristics. For example, you can set up a logical view so that when a user selects a document for viewing, the Content Manager OnDemand client program automatically locks the heading of the report in place when the user scrolls up or down on a page.