So, um, what is bursting?
Bursting is when a single report is generated but has sections that are grouped and intended for specific individuals. For example, an overtime report has a section for employees in each department. Bursting “by department to manager” would send each manager just the overtime report for people in that managers department. The term ‘burst’ comes from the olden days (yesterday for certain ERP vendors) when printer paper had holes and perforations and green all over them. The paper was six hundred miles long and the pages needed to be manually separated. This act of this manual separation was called ‘bursting’ meaning ‘to tear apart’ and was usually accomplished by flicking the middle finger at the perforation and pulling the pages apart.
