ER Parameters

The Electronic reporting framework is not getting any Preview features in 10.0.45. Two new features are available for you to Enable in Feature management, while at the same time several features are now On by default. Three features are now Mandatory. Additionally, there was one bug fix related to the ER. New features In-app PDF conversion for configurable business documents (CBD) This feature has been long in the making. Starting from 10.0.29 where the feature Utilize application resources to perform CBD documents conversion from Word to PDF format enabled users to to convert generated Word documents to PDF locally by using application server resources. This feature lacked one important thing: it didn’t provide local conversion of Excel documents to PDF. You could still use the conversion outside of the current Finance instance. In this scenario, the document would be sent outside of the instance to the conversion service, which would then return the converted document. This approach had several limitations, one was that the PDF conversion was available for cloud deployments while on-premise environments required online connections, the other was that there was a number of pages limit for a generated PDF document set to 300. ...

Either a business user or a Functional consultant needs to configure basic Electronic Reporting (ER) framework parameters before using the framework’s functionality. In this article, I will go through the basic ER parameters that need to be set, along with a couple of words about Configuration providers. Finally, I will briefly go through the process of importing the standard ER format configuration. Let’s start with the parameters. Configure ER parameters Basic functionalities of the ER framework are controlled by the values from the parameters, ranging from the Main to the Runtime parameters. Before I continue with endless repetition of the word “parameters,” let’s dive in and see what each parameter means. ...