Presto has a report system designed to fit a web-based backend administration interface.  Presto comes with a number of reports that fit within this environment, and custom ones can be added on at any time by Presto programmers.  Two reports are often used by content managers, namely the "Draft Items" report, and the "On Hold Items" report.  We have also mentioned previously that the Folder module has a report component.  Below is a standard list of reports that come with Presto.

When you click on a report's name in the Site Explorer, that report will appear in a Presto Reports browser window.  Subsequent clicks on Explore tab report links all get channeled to the same window, and separate tabs on this window are used to access the loaded reports. In other words, the Presto Reports window can have multiple reports loaded at a time, and it is up to you to drop them, as desired, from the window, or to close the window when you are finished with them.

If your site has been configured with custom reporting for web applications, or for data collected from visitors, these reports can be listed under the Reports page, or they can be positioned in other locations.

The pop-up window has a somewhat modified version of the Page Tools tab on the left and it has the report itself displayed on the right.

• date filter controls may be available below the report title in the Report Data area if the data can be filtered by a date field.
  
• A button is highlighted if the user can create a new item of the same type as items that appear in the report.  Clicking this button takes the user focus back to the main Presto window, where a new item form is presented in the Content tab.
• the save button does not appear (or is not active)
  
• the delete button is present and is highlighted when suitable icon links exist in the report.
  
• there is a "refresh" button that users can click to apply a new date range or other report variable.
  
• the report can be shown to show all records by default or some default date range.
  
• The Report interface supports the management of long lists of data (10, 20 or 50 thousand items) with a small number of fields - for example lookup lists or library indexes.
• The data table may have column labels.  If it does, chances are a click on a column header will trigger the sorting of the data by that column, ascending or descending. Sorting behaviour is controlled by Presto report programming.

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