# Generating, Attaching and Viewing reports with 1 click without needlessly regenerating
**URL:** https://community.nextw.com/t/generating-attaching-and-viewing-reports-with-1-click-without-needlessly-regenerating/1973
**Category:** Nextworld Platform
**Created:** [April 20, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/generating-attaching-and-viewing-reports-with-1-click-without-needlessly-regenerating/1973 "2026-04-20T19:19:15Z")
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### Author:  [@ian.p](https://community.nextw.com/u/ian.p)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/generating-attaching-and-viewing-reports-with-1-click-without-needlessly-regenerating/1973/1 "2026-04-20T19:19:15Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Accessing PDF created by reporting framework](https://community.nextw.com/t/accessing-pdf-created-by-reporting-framework/1888):
@jeremy.keller is there a way to save a report to a record, and view it in a single action? If I understand correctly,
- `Queue Report` action is the one that must be used to attach a report to a record.
- To view and generate a report, you can create an app link to a report application with target type of Container, but you can’t save the generated report to a record.
- To view a previously created report, you can create an app link to a report application with target type of Container and pass it a record and it will show you the attachment.
But I’m not sure how to bring these together to. Via a single action, I want this to happen so the user doesn’t have to think about it:
```auto
IF NOT previously generated
THEN generate, attach and view report
ELSE view previously generated and previously attached report
```
Can anyone think of a way to do this?
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### Author:  [@jeremy.keller](https://community.nextw.com/u/jeremy.keller)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2026, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/generating-attaching-and-viewing-reports-with-1-click-without-needlessly-regenerating/1973/2 "2026-04-21T15:21:13Z")
I can think of 2 potential solutions:
1. Utilize the inline attachment viewer - this would potentially work if the report can be attached to the record the user is viewing
2. There is a way to attach a report to a record outside of the queue report action - there just needs to be a few fields set in the report params, like which record to attach to and what to name the attachment. This has been used previously in Nextworld built solutions.
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### Author:  [@ian.p](https://community.nextw.com/u/ian.p)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2026, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.nextw.com/t/generating-attaching-and-viewing-reports-with-1-click-without-needlessly-regenerating/1973/4 "2026-04-21T19:24:19Z")
These 5 fields will need to be on the Report Version app/table and likely data mapped when the report version app is called to make this work:
```auto
ReportAttachmentTable
ReportAttachmentRecordId
ReportAttachmentName
ReportDisplay
ReportAttachmentRegenerate
```