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Changing the Appearance of Reports in Analytics
When setting up or updating reports, you can change the visual appearance of reports, known as cosmetic formatting. You can apply cosmetic formatting, copy and paste cosmetic formatting attributes, and save a formatted report to use as a style template.
Depending on the item you are formatting, the dialog box displays different options, such as font, cell, and border controls, background color, additional formatting options such as cell padding, and custom CSS style options for HTML.
You can change the appearance of:
- Columns and sections, such as background color and borders
- Columns in tables
- Size of titles
You can copy the range of cosmetic formatting attributes that you apply to an item, such as a column in a table, and paste them to an item of the same type, such as another column in the table or a column in a different table. You can also restore the default appearance. To do this, use the icons at the top right of the dialog boxes.
Views that support copying and pasting include the table, pivot table, and chart views.
About Saving Reports as Style Templates
After you have customized the cosmetic appearance of a report and saved it, you can use it as a template. This allows you to apply the formatting from the saved report to new or existing reports.
Views that support the use of a saved report as a template include the table, pivot table, and chart views.
This topic contains information about performing the following tasks:
- Formatting the visual appearance of a report
- Copying and pasting a formatting attribute
- Restoring the default appearance of an attribute
- Using a saved report as a template
To format the visual appearance of a report
- In Oracle CRM On Demand, click the Analytics tab.
- On the Home page, click Catalog and locate an analysis.
- Open the analysis.
- Select the report that you want to work with, then click OK.
- In the Build and View Analyses page, open the cosmetic format dialog box by doing one of the following:
- In Step 1, click the Column Properties button, and then click the Style tab in the Column Properties dialog box.
- In Step 2, open the Edit Format dialog box by doing one of the following:
- For Title or Table, click the Format View button.
- In the pivot table view, click the Pivot Table View Properties button and then the Set alternate format button.
NOTE: In the table view, you can also click the format column button and use the Value Format tab. In the pivot table view, you can also click the section properties button and use the Section Properties tab.
The cosmetic format dialog box appears.
- In het gebied 'Lettertype' kunt u allerlei opmaakopties selecteren en toepassen, zoals de lettertypefamilie, grootte, kleur, stijl (bijvoorbeeld vet) en andere effecten, zoals onderstrepen.
OPMERKING: deze optie is bij sommige items niet beschikbaar.
- Stel in het gebied 'Cel' de uitlijning en de achtergrondkleur in.
OPMERKING: over het algemeen worden gegevens bij horizontaal uitlijnen links uitgelijnd en worden getallen rechts uitgelijnd.
Verticale uitlijning heeft geen effect, tenzij de kolom meerdere rijen van andere kolommen omspant.
- Selecteer in het gebied 'Rand' de gewenste opties voor de positie, kleur en stijl van de celrand.
TIP: u kunt aangepaste randen selecteren of deselecteren door bij de vervolgkeuzelijst 'Positie' op de bovenste, onderste, linkse of rechtse rand te klikken.
- U stelt de afstand in cellen in door te klikken op 'Aanvullende opmaakopties' en waarden voor de breedte en hoogte van de celinhoud en de afstand boven, onder, links en rechts van de celinhoud op te geven.
Waarden worden opgegeven in pixels.
- U kunt de stijl- en klassenelementen die zijn opgegeven in de stijlpagina's van Oracle CRM On Demand overschrijven met de opties die u in het gebied 'Aangepaste opties voor CSS-stijlen' selecteert:
- Klik op de gewenste instellingen.
- Geef de locatie van de klasse, stijl of het stijlmodel op.
OPMERKING: de geavanceerde opmaakopties zijn bedoeld voor gebruikers die ervaring hebben met overlappende stijlmodellen.
- Klik op 'OK'.
To copy and paste a formatting attribute
- In the Build and View Analysis page, go to the item whose formatting you want to copy, such as a row, column, or table cell.
- Open the Cosmetic Formatting dialog box, click the Copy Formatting button, then click Cancel to close the Cosmetic Formatting dialog box.
- Go to the item to which you want to paste the formatting.
- Open the cosmetic formatting dialog box, click the paste formatting button, then click OK to apply your changes.
To restore the default appearance
- Open the Cosmetic Formatting dialog box for the item, and then click the Clear Formatting button.
For some types of views, when you add the view, you can use a saved report as a template, as described in the following procedure.
To use a saved report as a template
- In the Build and View Analysis page, go to Step 2 Create Layout.
- Click Add View, and select the view that you want.
- Click the Import View Formatting From Another Analysis button, which is near the top of the workspace:

Note: You can import formatting from reports that have formats from Step 2 (Creating Layouts). Formatting from Step 1 (Defining Criteria) cannot be imported.
- In the Import Saved Format dialog box, navigate to the saved report, and click OK.
- Click either the Saved Results link or the Preview Analyses button.
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