The Drill and Slice component creates a marker column called … (an ellipsis) in every results or table section. The column is empty and hidden from view. It acts as a placeholder for the column values selected in the drill operation. A marker column must be added to each chart or pivot section to be drilled. If charts and pivots are to be drilled and sliced, they must be displayed using the frame prototypes available with this component. These prototypes contain placeholders for the drill path, and the buttons (
and 
).
If a dashboard does not contain a marker column, no marker column is available. A marker column is created when the Drill and Slice Properties configuration frame is activated.
Optional: Use the Drill and Slice Properties configuration frame to rename the marker column.
To rename the marker column:
Use the Interactive Reporting Studio document from the Configuring Drill and Slice Buttons procedure, and navigate to Drill and Slice Properties.
To access the configuration frame, use Sections or the Configuration drop-down list found in Dashboard Studio.
In Rename Marker Column, enter a name.
Click Rename.
Marker Column Name is refreshed to display the replacement name.
If, for example, the display name is entered by pressing the spacebar. The marker column name is >| |<, bounded by >| and |<. In cases of escapable characters, the escaped form of the name is also displayed; for example, >|%20|<.