CORA PPM REPORTS
Understanding and Using the Reports Screen
Purpose: A working guide to the report catalog every Cora PPM user lands on — what it is, why it matters, how different delivery organizations use it, and how to run and manage reports effectively.
Quick Navigation
What It Is
A Single Front Door to Every Report in the System
The Reports screen (Reports in the main navigation) is Cora PPM's central report catalog — not a report itself, but the launcher that fans out to all of them.
Reports are grouped into categories, each rendered as a collapsible panel you can expand, collapse, or search across. Categories can include Portfolio Management, Project Management, Financial Management, Resource Management, System Administration, and Billable Reports.
Report Route | What Happens |
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Parameterized Report | You are shown a filter screen first, such as project, programme, date range, status, skills, or risk level. The report renders once you run it. |
Report Builder Page | You choose the data area, filters, and output columns, then save that combination for reuse. |
Direct Report | The report opens directly into results with its own built-in filtering. |
Which categories and reports you see depends on role, permissions, license, and administrator configuration. Two users may see different catalogs.
Example Catalog Layout
Category | Example Reports |
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Portfolio Management |
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Project Management |
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Financial Management |
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Why Teams Use It
One Place to Answer “How Are We Actually Doing?”
Portfolio, project, financial, and resource data all live inside Cora PPM. The Reports screen turns that data into something stakeholders can act on without manually exporting spreadsheets.
Use Case | How Teams Use It |
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Governance and Decision Support | PMO leads and sponsors use portfolio- and project-level reports to make stage-gate and go/no-go decisions without chasing status updates manually. |
Financial Control | Finance and project controllers use cost, phase breakdown, and budget-variance reports to track spend against plan and flag overruns early. |
Resource and Capacity Planning | Resource managers use availability and skill-matching reports to identify over-allocation, free capacity, and thin skills across the pipeline. |
Accountability and Audit | Audit Trail and system-administration reports provide a defensible record of who changed what. |
Client and Contract Billing | Billable and time-analysis reports turn logged effort into invoicing and utilization figures. |
Self-Service Without IT | Report Builder lets users assemble filtered, column-picked views and save them for reuse. |
Industry Playbook
The Same Catalog, Read Differently by Sector
Cora PPM reports are not sector-specific products. The same report families exist for every customer, but each delivery model leans on different reports based on its operating risks.
Project Type | Focus | Reports to Prioritize |
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? Manufacture-to-Order | Job-shop capacity and margin. Each order is a distinct project competing for the same skilled labor and equipment. |
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? Pharma and Life Sciences | Traceability and stage-gate discipline. Reporting supports regulated change-control and documented delivery. |
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?️ Capital Projects | Capex discipline over long horizons. Multi-year builds rely on tracking committed vs. actual spend phase by phase. |
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?️ Government Contracting | Cost accountability under contract. Public-sector and defense contracts require demonstrable control and auditability. |
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Earned Value Management (EVM) is common in capital and government contracting work. In Cora PPM, it exists as a separate project-dashboard capability configured by an administrator, distinct from this Reports catalog.
Acronyms Used on This Screen and Guide
Plain-Language Definitions
Term | Meaning |
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PPM | Project and Portfolio Management — planning, tracking, and governing projects as a portfolio, not just individually. |
SAP | An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system many customers integrate with. The Project SAP Transactions Report surfaces SAP-sourced financial transactions against a project. |
EVM | Earned Value Management — a cost and schedule performance technique comparing planned, earned, and actual value. |
KPI | Key Performance Indicator — a defined metric tracked against a target. |
GovCon | Government Contracting — delivering projects under a government or public-sector contract. |
MTO | Manufacture-to-Order — a production model where each customer order triggers its own project rather than building to stock. |
How to Use It
Running a Report, Start to Finish
The exact filter options vary by report, but the flow below applies to almost every report in the catalog.
Open Reports: From the main navigation, select Reports.
Find the Report You Need: Scan category panels, collapse ones you do not need, or use the search box.
Click the Report Name: The report may open a parameter screen, direct results, or a Report Builder page.
Set Your Filters: Choose project, programme, date range, financial period, skill, status, project type, risk level, or other available criteria.
Run It: Select Run or the equivalent view/generate control.
Export if Needed: Send the report to Excel, Word, PDF, or HTML where available.
Save Your Configuration: For Report Builder, save your selected filters and columns for reuse.
Repeat: Return to the Reports catalog for the next report.
Tip: Search usually matches report names only. It does not search report contents or descriptions.
Admin Setup
Configuring What Appears in the Catalog
Nothing in the Reports catalog is hardcoded. Categories and report links are managed from Admin → Configuration → Reports.
Tab | What It Manages |
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Report Groups | The categories themselves, including create, edit, delete, reorder, and visibility settings. |
Reports | URL-based report definitions. Adding new entries is disabled in the shipped UI. |
Telerik Reports | Upload and manage Telerik report definition files, where licensed. |
Export / Import | Back up or move the category structure as an XML file. |
Templates | PowerPoint-style report templates used by slide or deck-generation reports. |
Admin Workflow
Create the Category: On Report Groups, add a group, description, tooltip, and display setting.
Register the Report: On Telerik Reports, upload the definition file, give it a report name, add an optional tooltip, and save.
Link the Report Into the Category: Edit sub-items on the group and add the relevant report type.
Control Visibility: Use
Based on Formulawhere report access depends on fields, roles, or constants.Edit, Delete, or Reorder Later: Use edit icons, up/down arrows, or drag-and-drop in the Organise Report Group popup.
Back Up or Move the Structure: Export the XML structure and import it into another environment when needed.
Manage Templates Separately: Use the Templates tab for deck layouts, not catalog entries.
Important: Export/Import moves group names and report links only. The underlying Telerik files, direct-URL reports, and Custom Register reports must already exist in the target environment.
Formula Reference
Prefix | Resolves To |
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PV / LV / SV | A project variable, by ID. |
ID / FD / SD | A project custom-detail field, by ID. |
UD | A user field, by ID, including role and administrator flags. |
SC | A system constant, by ID. |
R | A Custom Register field, by ID. |
TODAY | The current date. |
Illustrative formula shape: IIF([UD12] = 'Administrator', true, [ID4] = 'Active').
Direct-URL reports cannot be added from this UI. In practice, new catalog entries come from a Telerik report upload or a Custom Register report. A brand-new direct-URL report page is a development change.
FAQ
Questions That Come Up in Practice
Question | Answer |
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Why Do I Not See Every Category or Report Other Colleagues Have? | Visibility is controlled by role, permissions, license, and administrator configuration. |
What Is the Difference Between a Regular Report and Report Builder? | A standard report has a fixed layout. Report Builder lets you choose the data area, filters, columns, and saved configuration. |
Can I Save a Report so I Do Not Have to Re-Set Filters? | Yes, for Report Builder-style reports. Shared administrator defaults are marked “system” and are read-only for regular users. |
Can Reports Be Scheduled or Emailed Automatically? | Not as a built-in feature of this catalog. Check with your Cora administrator or account team for options outside the standard Reports screen. |
What Formats Can I Export To? | Most reports offer Excel, Word, PDF, and HTML. Exact formats vary by report. |
Where Is Earned Value Management Reporting? | EVM lives outside this catalog as a separate project-dashboard capability configured by an administrator. |
Does the Search Box Search Inside Reports? | No. It filters visible report names on the catalog screen only. |
Who Decides Which Reports Exist in Our Catalog? | Administrators manage the catalog, including categories, reports, ordering, and visibility rules. |
Cora PPM — internal reference guide. Report names and categories reflect a representative configuration; your organization's catalog may vary.
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