Use the Retained Process Reports dialog
to review and manage retained process reports for a process. Select Redisplay
Results on the File menu in a request
editor to display the Current and All commands. Select Current to
redisplay the report from the previously run process. Select All to
display the Retained Process Reports dialog.
Note: Redisplay Results is unavailable
if a process has not been run and no reports are retained. The Current command
is unavailable until a process is run. The All command
is unavailable if no reports are retained.

The Retained Process Reports dialog
includes the following details:
- Request Name
- The fully qualified name of the process request
for which the report was generated.
- Locked
- The check box indicates whether the report is locked.
(A locked report cannot be deleted.)
Note: To lock or unlock a report,
right-click a grid row and select from the shortcut menu.
- Start Time
- The date and time processing began. Start
Time is useful for distinguishing reports generated for
a single process request.
- Errors
- The number of errors that occurred during processing.
- Warnings
- The number of warnings that occurred during processing.
- Description
- Text from the Description on
the request editor. You can modify this description to provide more
detail on the contents of the retained process report. Modifying the
description here does not change the description on the request editor.
You can display any report by double-clicking
the grid row.
Note: The availability of the
Retained
Process Reports dialog and the maximum number of reports
you can retain for an action are determined by the
Report
Retention settings in Personal Options. See
Actions Tab in
Personal Options for further information.
Shortcut Menu Commands
You can use shortcut menu commands on the Retained
Process Reports dialog to lock, unlock, delete, or display
retained reports. Right-click a grid row to select from the following
shortcut menu commands:
- Lock
- Lock the selected report. A locked report is not
deleted when a new report is saved or when you select Remove
All from the shortcut menu.
Note: A warning message is
displayed if the number of locked reports equals or exceeds the Report
Levels setting in Personal Options. You can increase that
value or unlock one or more reports. Optim retains
all locked reports and one additional report (for the previously run
process), until the conflict is resolved.
- Unlock
- Unlock the selected report.
- Unlock All
- Unlock all reports.
- Remove
- Delete the selected report.
- Remove All
- Delete all unlocked reports.
- Display Results...
- Display
the selected report.