Summary

With the newly designed Web Intelligence web viewer, the reading and design modes are more tightly integrated, allowing report consumers’ full access to all the features of the report designer to analyze information in a report at the click of a mouse. Ideally, much of the formatting, sorting, breaks, and calculations have been defined for you in a shared report. However, you can fine-tune these options to suit your own analysis needs. You can change the block style from a tabular report to a chart to discover trends visually. You can re-sort the data, filter it, or insert subtotals to hone in on particular patterns or problem areas.

Use the drill functionality to explore data by additional levels of detail and different dimensions. Use ...

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