System and method for report to report generation

1. A method comprising:

receiving from a sender report, using a processor of a machine, a selection of some or all information from the sender report, the sender report generated from a first data table and displayed on a display device of the machine;

creating, based on the selection, a selection criteria that identifies at least one additional data table where information related to the selection resides;

sending the selection criteria to a receiver report adapted to receive selection criteria and adapted to select information from a data table; and

selecting information from the at least one additional data table based on the selection criteria.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one additional data table resides in a database separate from the first data table.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the selection comprises a plurality of information contained in rows and/or columns of the sender report and wherein the creating operation produces information to identify the information contained in the rows and/or columns of the sender report.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising creating database operations to join multiple additional data tables before selecting information based on the selection criteria.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the multiple additional data tables reside in a database separate from the first data table.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein the selection criteria comprises multiple selection criteria.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein creating the selection criteria comprises:

identifying data fields, data values, or combinations thereof contained in rows, or columns, or combinations thereof, of the selection from the sender report; and

placing the identified data fields, data values, or combinations thereof in a format for sending to the receiver report.

8. A system comprising:

memory;

a computer processor coupled to the memory;

instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the instructions comprising:

a sender report to display report results produced in accordance with the sender report and to receive a selection of some or all of the displayed report results;

a sender adaptor to receive the selection from the sender report, and to extract a report-to-report selection criteria from the selection;

a receiver adaptor to obtain the report-to-report selection criteria, to identify a target data table where information resides relating to the report-to-report selection criteria, and to create a selection criteria for the target data table from the report-to-report selection criteria; and

a receiver report to receive the selection criteria for the target data table and to execute the selection criteria for the target data table.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the instructions further comprise a report-to-report adaptor to receive the report-to-report selection criteria and to provide the report-to-report selection criteria to the receiver adaptor.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the report-to-report adaptor is further configured to store the report-to-report selection criteria.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the receiver adaptor is further configured:

to identify multiple target data tables where information relating to the report-to-report selection criteria resides; and

to create database operations to join the multiple target data tables.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the selection criteria operates on joined multiple target data tables.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein the sender report is further configured to extract displayed information from a sender data table and wherein the sender data table and the target data table reside in different databases.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the selection comprises multiple displayed information and wherein the report-to-report selection criteria includes criteria for the multiple displayed information.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a machine, perform operations comprising:

receive a selection of information from a report generated from a first data table and displayed on a display device of the machine;

create a selection criteria based on the selection;

send the selection criteria to a generic report, the generic report adapted to select information from any data table where data relevant to the selection criteria reside; and

select information based on the selection criteria.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the data relevant to the selection criteria reside in data table in a database separate from a database where the first data table resides.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the selection comprises a plurality of information and wherein the selection criteria selects data from multiple additional data tables.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the multiple additional data tables reside in a database separate from the first data table.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the instructions further configure the machine to create database operations to join the multiple additional data tables before selecting information based on the selection criteria.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 19 , wherein the instructions further configure the machine to modify the selection criteria to extract information from the joined multiple additional data tables.