Working with report parts

As we mentioned in the introduction, there are mainly two types of workspaces. In this section, we will demonstrate how to create a report data workspace.

Along with the option to connect to a report, we can actually create a view to a specific report part: a table or a chart that is displayed in one of the report tabs.

This feature is very flexible as we can focus on just the report part we are interested in instead of using the entire report, and on the other hand, we don't need to create another report that will fit exactly to our workspace requirements either.

Getting ready

We will create a workspace that will display two different charts from different reports and data sources, centralizing and unifying them in one workspace. ...

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