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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Queries and Reports</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>Queries and Reports</Level1>
		</Keyword>
	</Header>
	<AimSection><Paragraph>The Queries and Reports module generates timely and essential information, which provides strategic advantage to an organization. Reports help present information in a structured format.</Paragraph>
	</AimSection>
	<GeneralSection><List><ListIntro>The Queries and Reports module provides the following features:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem>Define and execute queries for all ODM objects.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Define, implement, track, store, and display the query conditions for ODM objects.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Store the query result sets and re-run the queries on the stored data</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Enabling the filtering of the session data, based on the query result set, for both base and linked queries.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Enable setting the role assignments based on queries.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Access reports generated from Change Management, Document Management, and Folder Management modules</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Create, view, or print reports based on objects.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>Display query results in various formats</ListItem>
		</List>
		<Paragraph>The main objective of queries is to provide a framework to facilitate query based object search mechanism. The Report functionality enables you to view the results of a query in the form of a report in various formats.</Paragraph>
	</GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>
