How to avoid the additional helper window when creating a report?

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Hi, 
 this is not really an urgent topic, but it&acute;s something I wanted to ask for an eternity. 
 When we create a new Report (e.g. Multilevel BOM Report), we will always get an additional empty tab that works as helper window. User have to close the window to work with Innovator again. But espcially new users often forget to close it and than are confused why they cannot use their Innovator any more. 
 Is it somehow possible to avoid the helper window? Or automatically close it after the report was generated? 
 Thanks! 
 Angela

Christopher Gillis · Accepted Answer

Thanks for clarifying. :) I haven't played around with SSRS too much, but it might be possible to add some code wherever this tab is opened to programmatically close it once the report is downloaded. After some digging with the chrome dev tools, it looks like this tab is opened with aras.targetReport which can be found in your codetree under ./Innovator/Client/javascript/aras_object.js . If closing the tab proves to be too troublesome, you can also try deleting the two bolded lines below from this file (these were found near line 2029 in my 11.0 SP12 codetree): if (report_location !== 'service') { win . document . write ( results ) ; win . document . write ( '
' ) ; win . document . body . style . background = ' #fff ' ; } Removing this if statement should cause the new tab to be drawn with a completely white background. Users will still need to close the tab manually, but it should help confusion as the tab won't look like the main grid. Chris

How to avoid the additional helper window when creating a report?

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