Using Subscriptions › Favorites, Subscriptions and Roles - Overview

Favorites, Subscriptions and Roles - Overview

A Favorite is a bookmark to a report or filter that you want to have quick access to online. Subscriptions can consist of any of the following favorite types:

• Report
• Report index
• Report index-value report section
• Cross-Report index-value report section
• Filter
  • Frequently used report filters
  • Cross-Report search filters
  • Cross-Report index-value filters

Most of the viewable or usable entities that you select can be added as a favorite. Note that all these types of data are frequently referred to as reports. For more information about favorite types, see Different Types of Favorites Table.

A Subscription is a group of favorites that has been given a name and description. The Subscription name can now be used by Administrators and Advanced Users to assign this bundle of reports to one or more Roles. Only Advanced Users and Administrators can create Subscriptions, and only Administrators can assign the Subscriptions to other Roles.

With a Subscription, you can provide access to reports to Basic User-type users who no longer have to keep track of which repositories contain which reports. These users do not have to search a repository, or even know the report's name to view their reports online.

Subscriptions you create are displayed in your report’s tab. With a Subscription, you can access reports without having to keep track of which repositories contain which reports. You do not have to search a repository every time you want to find the report.