Depending on whether your organization already has Mercury, you’ll experience one of the following situations.
If your company is not yet using Mercury (or has not authorized your Windows login), then you’ll be using a demonstration set of reports. (You are free to add, modify, or delete reports as you wish.)
The example reports in this document are taken from demonstration
If your company is using Mercury and has authorized your Windows login, then:
If your company is using Mercury but has not yet authorized access for your Windows login, then you’ll be in situation #1 above – using the demos and samples. Please ask your Mercury admin-user to add your login to the list of authorized users.
When you’re using the demonstration set of Mercury reports, you’ll see a form similar to the following.
You’ll see a choice of your company’s Mercury installations; click the one that you need. Or you can choose to use the Local Demo instead (via RUN LOCAL DEMO in the upper right of the window), and switch back to your company Mercury database(s) later.
– Your report is now organized first by Category, and then by Name.
All reports can have associated Favorites. A Favorite is simply a report layout that has been “saved” after it was run and modified. This does not mean saving the *data* – it means saving the layout and/or parameters and re-using them when you run the report again.
A favorite saves everything you did: rearrangements, calculated fields, sorting and grouping, conditional formatting, and more.
If a report has favorites, a fly-out window appears when you click on the report in the main list. You can click the favorite’s Run icon to execute a favorite immediately, or you can single-click the favorite if you want to change parameter values before running it.
For more information on Favorites, see Favorites.