You can use bursting options when you need your reports to be delivered to different destinations in different formats.
Here are some examples of circumstances in which using bursting would be a good choice:
Generate invoices, delivery based on customer-specific layouts, and delivery preference
Financial reporting, that is, generating a master report of all cost centers and bursting out individual cost center reports to the appropriate manager
Generate pay slips for all the employees based on one extract and deliver via e-mail
The possible output types are:
For a bursting definition, as you can see in the preceding screenshot, you must provide:
Name: Enter a description of your choice
Type: The only type available for a bursting definition is SQL Query
Data Source: The data source containing delivery information
Split By: An element from the data; data set must be ordered or sorted by this element
Deliver...