Report Header Configuration and Security

To protect reports, you should set the Type field to Protected or System. Reports of this type are visible to users with access profiles set to User Admin or Developer, but they can only be edited by users who have their access profile set to System. This provides an additional layer of protection, especially useful for system functionality like outbound interfaces.

The Time Limit defines the maximum run time in minutes for the report. If a report exceeds this limit, the Blitz Report Monitor concurrent program automatically cancels it. This prevents excessive server load caused by reports running too long, often due to insufficient parameter restrictions.

The time limit set in the Run window options takes the highest precedence. The full hierarchy is: 1) Run window options time limit, 2) Profile option on user level, 3) Time limit on report level, 4) Profile option on responsibility level, and 5) Profile option on site level.

When importing a BI Publisher report, the original data definition XML is stored in the BIP Code field. When this field is populated, Blitz Report automatically executes the `dataTrigger` section, such as `beforeReportTrigger`, of the associated XML template before it executes the primary report SQL, supporting reports based on preprocessed data in global temporary tables.