Publishing Report Groups will allow you to create a bundle of FinancialsLIVE Reports, for example Month End or Year End Reports, and keep them at a particular location using Civica's Bundle software. Creating a bundle of Reports is further detailed in the Creating Publisher Report Group section.
These can be viewed and/or amended on the GL Publisher Report Group form. In addition new Publisher Report Groups can be created from existing Groups.
This form can be accessed by selecting the Financials option on the Financials Web Main Menu:

Then the General Ledger menu option:

Then the GL Maintenance menu option:

Then the GL Publisher menu option:

Then the GL Publisher Report Group menu option:

The GL Publisher Report Groups form will then open:

Add the code for the required GL Publisher Report Group to the Reference field and click on the
button.
Alternatively clicking on the Find Year End Report Group button located to the right of this field,
, will open the Find GL Publishing Report Group form allowing you to search for and select the required Publisher Report Group. This form is further detailed in the Find Publisher Report Group section.
The GL Publisher Report Group form will be loaded with the details of the Publisher Report Group:

The fields on the form are as follows (mandatory items are notated with a red asterisk *):
- Reference: This is the reference for the Publisher Report Group and cannot be changed.
- Description: A description for the Publisher Report Group will be included in this field and can be changed, if required.
- Hide Parameters: Where this field is selected the following fields will be displayed:

Any Report from any FinancialsLIVE module can be run directly from the Publishing facility. The parameters added in these fields will be used instead of the parameters within these Reports when they are run in the Publishing facility. This means that Monthly or Year End Reports can be run via Publishing without having to change the parameters in the individual Reports.
- Tenant Reference: A Publisher Tenant will be included in this field and can be changed by selecting a different option from this drop-down list. Publisher Tenants are further detailed in the Publishing Tenants section.
- Status: This field will be set to
where no bundle has yet been created for the Report Group. Where it set to
a bundle has been created for the Report Group and the items will be included in a Grid at the bottom of the form.
The Consolidated Options section of the form has the following options:
- Load to New Bundle: Where the status of the Report Group is set to
and this option is selected, a Bundle will have been created for the Publisher Report Group.
Where the status of the Report Group is set to
, a new Bundle has not yet been created for the Publisher Report Group. When the
button, which is detailed below, is clicked on and this option is selected, a new Bundle will be created and will include items that have been added to the Report Group.
Where selected the following fields displayed:

These fields are:
- Description: This field may include a description and can be amended or removed if required. Where the field is blank, a description can be added, if required.
- Comments: Details may be included in this field to further describe the new Bundle and can be amended or removed if required. Where the field is blank, details can be added, if required.
- Load to Existing Bundle: Where the status of the Report Group is set to
and this option is selected, items included in the Report Group will have been added to an existing Bundle.
Where the status of the Report Group is set to
, and this option is selected, the items on the Report Group have not yet been added to an existing Bundle. When the
button, which is further detailed below, is clicked on the items added to the Report Group will be added to a Bundle that has already been created.
Where this option is selected the following field will be displayed:

The buttons available on the form are:
: Click on this button to save any changes made to the form, including changes to the fields and items added to the Report Group.
: Clicking on this button will clear all the fields, remove any items added to the Report Group and return you to the initial version of the GL Publisher Group Report form allowing you to create a new Report Group or view an existing one.
: Clicking on this button will delete the Publisher Report Group - a message will be displayed asking for confirmation that it is to be deleted. Please note: once a Bundle has been created from the Report Group, the Bundle should firstly be deleted in the Civica Bundle software.
: Clicking on this button will open the Audit Info screen, providing audit information on the Publisher Report Group and is further detailed in the Audit Info section.
: Clicking on this button will allow you to add a note to the Publishing Report Group. Where there is an existing note the button will be displayed as
. Notes are further detailed in the Notes section.
: This button will only be enabled where the status of the Publisher Report Group is set to
. Click on this button and a Select Report Styles form will open allowing you to search for and add Reports Styles to the Report Group. This form is further detailed in the Selecting Report Styles section.
Once the Report Styles have been selected, they will appear in a Reports Grid at the bottom of the GL Publisher Report Groups form:

Further Report Styles can be added to the Grid by re-clicking on the
button.
Report Styles can be removed from the Grid by clicking on the
button for new Lines just added or the
button for existing Lines - these are located to the far left of the relevant Line.
In the Order column on the Grid, add the order that the items in the Grid are to be included in the Bundle:

Click on the
button to ensure that these changes are saved.
: This button will only be enabled where the status of the Publisher Report Group is set to
. Clicking on this button will open the Select Non-Report Files form, allowing you to add a non-Report file, such as a header or a footer for the Bundle, to the Report Group.
This form will allow you to create non-Report files from your network and add them to Publisher and is further detailed in the Creating Non-Report Files section.
This form will also allow you to add any non-Report file that has been added to Publisher to the Report Group and is further detailed in the Adding Non-Report Files section.
Once the non-Report files have been selected, they will appear in the Reports Grid at the bottom of the GL Publisher Report Groups form:

Further non-Report files can be added to the Grid by re-clicking on the
button.
Non-Report files can be removed from the Grid by clicking on the
button for new Lines just added or the
button for existing Lines - these are located to the far left of the relevant Line.
In the Order column in the Grid, add the order that the items in the Grid are to be included in the Bundle:

Click on the
button to ensure that these changes are saved.
: This button will only be enabled where the status of the Publisher Report Group is set to
. Once the required Reports Styles have been added to the Grid at the bottom of the GL Publisher Report Group, the job to generate the Reports can be run directly from this form by clicking on this button, which will open the GL Submit Publisher Reports form. This form is further detailed in the Submitting Group Reports section.
Once submitted the Job No column and the Job Status columns on the Reports Grid at the bottom of the form will be updated.

Clicking on the link in the Job No column will open the job details in the Report Viewer for the relevant module. The Report Viewer is further detailed in the Reporting How to Guide section.
: Click on this button to refresh the Job Status. The job will be completed when the Job Status is set to complete.
Where the job is set to Complete, the Report can be opened by clicking on the View link on the relevant Line on the Grid:

The other links on the Grid are as follows:

These are:
- View: Clicking on this link on a Line that contains a non-Report file, will open that file.
- Job History: Clicking on this link will open the GL Find Publisher Report Job History screen, providing details of the job. This form is further detailed on the Report Group Job History section.
- Notes: Clicking on this link will allow you add a note to the Line. Notes are further detailed in the Notes section.
: This button will only be enabled where the status of the Publisher Report Group is set to
. Click on this button to create the Bundle of the items displayed in the Grid. You will be directed to the Civica Bundle software, which is further detailed in the Civica Bundle section.
The Status field will change to
and the
,
,
and
buttons will be disabled.
: This button will only be available when the status of the Publisher Report Group field is set
. Clicking on this button will reset the Status field back to
and the
,
,
and
buttons will be enabled.
: Clicking on this button will open the GL Publisher Report Group Copy form allowing you to create a copy of the Publisher Report Group, including any Report Styles, non-Report files and notes that have been added to the Report Group. This form is further detailed in the Copying Report Groups section.
: This button will be enabled once the Status of the Publishing Report Group is set to
. Clicking on this button will open the latest Bundle created by this Publishing Report Group on the Civica Bundle software, which is further detailed in the Civica Bundle section.
: This button will be enabled once the Status of the Publishing Report Group is set to
and more than one Bundle has been created via this Publisher Report Group. Clicking on this button will open the GL Publisher Bundles form allowing you to search for and view the relevant Bundle for the Publisher Report Group on the Civica Bundle software. This form is further detailed on the Publisher Report Group Bundles section.