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How is a company's logo pulled into a report built in Report Studio, the way an older report reference variable did in Report Designer?
The Report Studio design interface doesn't appear for a user even though the relevant report-designer permission set has been granted.
A Report Rule using the Send Email action type doesn't offer a way to override which mail sender/connector instance is used, unlike an equivalent event action.
Is it possible to send a Report Rule's email through a custom mail sender instead of the default one?
A custom report layout prints correctly in portrait when previewed first, but comes out in landscape when printed directly without previewing.
Is there a way to make the "show all printers" checkbox default to checked every time a report print dialog opens?
A newly published Quick Report is accessible through the default (Main) OData application type but returns a resource-not-found error through a Compatibility Application Type (like the one used for Power BI/Int integrations).
Scheduling a Quick Report through an Application Server Task fails with "Insufficient privileges to export the quick report to Excel," even when scheduled under an admin-level user.
Is it possible to print directly to a physical network printer from IFS Cloud without going through a Print Agent?
In Report Studio, is there a way to dynamically change which signature image gets printed based on data on the record (like who printed or authorized it), rather than a single fixed image?
Printing an Instant Invoice (or a similar report) fails with a generic "Error occurred while running the Report" message, without a clear indication of what's wrong.
Reports containing barcodes or QR codes fail to render with an error referencing an external barcode-encoding method that "must be public" and can't be found.
Can the default report layout used when printing something (like a customer invoice work copy) be set per user, rather than being one fixed layout for everyone?
A Report Rule expression using a SQL function like `UPPER()` directly around a field placeholder (e.g. `UPPER([@SOME_FIELD])`) doesn't work, even though the equivalent works fine in plain PL/SQL.
Opening the print-options dialog for a specific report (like an order confirmation) is consistently much slower in one environment (like PROD) than in another (like TEST) with otherwise similar data volumes, even after ruling out report rules and custom configurations.
A Crystal Report Quick Report with a parameter, triggered from a custom menu (or the Quick Report's own View option) that maps the parameter correctly, doesn't show any data — even though running the same report directly in Crystal Reports Designer with the same parameter value works fine.
A Business Reporter pivot table sheet shows only the raw field placeholder text (like `[Site]`) instead of the actual parameter value, while the equivalent flat-table sheet in the same workbook shows the value correctly.
Is there a workaround for mapping a Crystal Report Quick Report's parameters in Page Designer, since IFS documentation explicitly says this isn't supported?
Custom fields added to a Report Designer layout show correctly on the underlying IFS page and populate data there, but don't appear in the generated PDF even after saving the layout changes.
Is there a way to stop the current user's email address from automatically populating the print dialog's recipient/email field for every report?
A SQL-based Quick Report's user-prompt parameter (like `&DATE_FROM`) shows its raw underscore-separated name as the on-screen label ("DATE_FROM") instead of a friendly label like "Date From" — replacing the underscore with a space directly in the database-side bind variable name fails when run through the client.
A Quick Report's column chooser shows a red line dividing fields into two groups, and fields below that line never actually display in the report results no matter how they're selected.
Is there a way to make a Report Rule send an email to a supplier's own email address when one is available, falling back to the current user's email otherwise?
A Crystal Report built on an IAL displays data correctly without a WHERE clause, but comes back completely blank as soon as a WHERE clause is added to the underlying Quick Report — even though the same WHERE clause works fine on an equivalent plain-SQL Quick Report.
A Report Designer layout uses only a Repeat Page (First Page disabled), and a header element needs to show on just the very first printed page and then disappear on every page after that — but page-number-based visibility conditions on it stop the report from printing at all.
Where can the example Power BI (.pbix) report files referenced in release "what's new" material for Financials (like Income Statement and Balance Sheet reports) actually be downloaded from, since they aren't in the component git repositories?
Entering a non-numeric value into a Number-type parameter for an Operational Report doesn't raise an error and lets the report execute anyway, unlike the equivalent parameter validation in the older on-premise product.
A Crystal-Report-type Quick Report fails to save with a "Stream was not readable" error, even though the permission sets look correctly configured.
Printing a report (like an invoice) intermittently shows a print-preview timeout message before the PDF has finished generating — can this timeout be increased?
I can see a report's output in Report Archive and view its XML, but I can't find its data in the report's result table (…_REP) to build a custom extract. Why?
Report Designer's font size field seems capped at 24 in the picker — can I actually use a larger font?
How do I get a custom field I created in IFS Cloud to show up as a usable field in IFS Business Reporter?
Can the sort order of rows on a standard operational report (e.g. a packing list) be changed through configuration, or does it require modifying the report's underlying package?
Business Reporter returns zero values for finance report information sources that clearly have balances in IFS Cloud, and ticking the ALL checkbox on Design Row Options is the only way to get any data back at all — is something misconfigured?
Can a Quick Report parameter be shown as a calendar date picker (instead of a plain text substitution field) for an ad-hoc date-range query?
The company logo doesn't appear on printed invoices/reports — it keeps defaulting to the standard IFS logo placeholder image, even after uploading the company's own logo.
Is it possible to configure a report so an extra copy automatically prints to a second, different printer (e.g. always send a duplicate of an invoice to another printer)?
In a Crystal Report Rule condition/formula, is there a way to run a small SQL lookup and use its result (e.g. checking whether the current user belongs to a specific department) as part of the rule's TRUE/FALSE logic?
How do you actually reference a custom field you added to a standard entity (e.g. Customer Order) inside a custom SQL-based Quick Report?
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