Introduction to e~Print
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Welcome to e~Print Reports! You've been given access to a report distribution system that uses your Internet browser to quickly and easily retrieve and print the legacy system reports you are authorized to see. This page provides a brief introduction to the system.

The diagram below represents the data flow, in simplified form. After reports are run on your report-generating application, the print files are transferred via ftp to the e~Print server, where the data is compressed and prepared for further processing.

Using a web browser, the user selects a report. The appropriate report pages are then retrieved and assembled as a PDF (Adobe® Portable Document Format) file which can be viewed in the user's browser via Adobe® Reader. (As you may already know, Adobe® Reader is a popular application that you can download for free from the Internet.)

A Note About Security
System security in e~Print is provided at three levels: Authentication, Report Authorization and Page Authorization.
	Authentication:
	Authentication is the first level of security applied to an e~Print user. In order to access e~Print you must by authenticated as a valid user to a repository. This process will validate your identity against your host application.
	Report Authorization:
	Report Authorization determines which report(s) a user may access. Based on your valid User ID, e~Print will present a list of reports which you have been give access to view. This access will be determined based in entries in Banner or security information loaded in e~Print.
	Page Authorization (VBS):
	Page Authorization security determines which pages of a report a user may access. Page Authorization or Value-based security means that access to the system's data is linked to certain attributes or types of information. If your report-generating application system uses value-based security, then those security rules will be defined to e~Print and will apply to the display of pages of e~Print reports, as well.
	In colleges and universities, for example, users may be restricted to report data for certain campuses, divisions, schools or departments. Even if users are authorized access to a report by virtue of their user group, that report may only include the data to which they have security access.
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