Chapter 3. Working Inside the Report

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Understanding the structure of the Report layer
  • Understanding the concept of the microcube
  • Working with the Left Pane panels
  • Working with the report toolbars
  • Navigating between the view modes
  • The File and Properties tabs

Introduction

Building reports is what Web Intelligence is all about. While building a query lays out the data results into a table or a chart, there is another major phase involved in creating the report, and that is formatting and analyzing the results in the Report layer.

Data is formatted by interacting with several main toolbars and left-pane panel reports. The Report layer offers enhanced and rich capabilities such as filtering, sorting, calculating, ...

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