7 Editing Columnar Reports

This chapter describes the modifications you can make to columnar reports in Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (Oracle BAM) Active Studio, including how to add images, and how to format text and change text alignment.

This chapter includes the following topics:

Additional information about Columnar Reports is available in Section 3.3, "Creating Columnar Reports."

7.1 About Columnar Reports

Columnar reports have different characteristics than tiled reports. A tiled report contains one or more views of data on a single page. A columnar report creates a multiple-paged, continuous formatted report. When you select the Columnar Report template, the Columnar view is also automatically selected. You can also select a tiled report template and the Columnar view although multiple pages are not provided for printing.

The data and properties formatting options in the Columnar Report are identical to those in the Columnar view available in tiled reports. See Section 4.3, "Creating and Using the Columnar View" for information about using the View Editor with the Columnar view.

Note:

Columnar reports and views support active data updates only, and only under the following conditions: the updates do not change the grouping of a record, and the report does not span multiple pages or frames.

7.2 Using Formatting Toolbars

When you edit a Columnar Report, additional toolbars are provided for formatting text and alignment. You can also insert text and images.

Figure 7-1 Font Formatting Toolbar

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Description of "Figure 7-1 Font Formatting Toolbar"

To use the font formatting toolbar:

  1. Click a column or header containing text.

  2. Do any of the following:

    • Select a font and size from the lists.

    • Click the Font Color button to select a font color from the palette.

    • Click Bold, Italic, or Underline to apply styles to the font.

Figure 7-2 Text Alignment Toolbar

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Description of "Figure 7-2 Text Alignment Toolbar"

To use the text alignment toolbar:

  1. Click a column or header containing text.

  2. Click a button to apply left, center, right text alignment, or apply the best fit to the column.

Figure 7-3 Item Alignment Toolbar

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Description of "Figure 7-3 Item Alignment Toolbar"

To use the item alignment toolbar:

  1. Click a column or header containing multiple items, for example, two text fields.

  2. Click a button to apply left, center, or right horizontal alignment to the items.

  3. Click a button to apply top, middle, or bottom vertical alignment to the items.

7.3 Inserting Images

You can insert images into Columnar reports. The image file types, JPG and GIF, are supported. For best performance, insert images with smaller file sizes.

To insert an image into a columnar report:

  1. Click a text area in the report, such as the report header or a group header.

  2. Click the Insert Picture button in the toolbar.

    Figure 7-4 Insert Picture Button

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    Description of "Figure 7-4 Insert Picture Button"

    The File Upload dialog box opens.

  3. Click Browse, select an image file, and click Open.

    The path to the file is inserted.

  4. Click Upload.

  5. After the file is uploaded, click OK.

    The image is displayed in the report. The image is copied to the server.

To delete images:

  1. Click the image in the report.

  2. Click the Delete Object button in the toolbar.

    Figure 7-5 Delete Object Button

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    Description of "Figure 7-5 Delete Object Button"

    The image is deleted.

7.4 Inserting Text

You can insert text into Columnar reports.

To insert text into a columnar report:

  1. Click a text area in the report, such as the report header or a group header.

  2. Click the Insert Text button in the toolbar.

    Figure 7-6 Insert Text Button

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    Description of "Figure 7-6 Insert Text Button"

    The text field opens.

  3. Highlight the text and replace it.

To delete inserted text:

  1. Click the text box in the report.

  2. Click the Delete Object button in the toolbar.

    The text is deleted.