Report Components

The following table describes the components that you can use while designing reports in Reporting Studio. Report components include report objects, such as grids and charts, headers and footers, and rows, columns, and cells of grids.

Component

Description

Header

An area where you can display text on the top of each page of a report. You can add other report objects to a header.

Text Box

A report object that can contain text, or functions that retrieve data such as report settings, data values, point of view (POV) values, or dimension members

Grid

A report object in which you retrieve data in the rows, columns, and page axes

Chart

A report object that displays data from a specified grid. Charts are graphical representations of the data in a grid

Image

A report object that contains a graphic or an image file, which can be included in the following formats: Graphics Interchange Format (.gif), Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg), icon (.ico and cur), and Windows bitmap (.bmp). You can add images to the body of the report and to a header or footer.

Note:

Bitmap (.bmp) images greatly increases the size of your report and may affect performance.

Footer

An area where you can display text on the bottom of each printed page of a report. You can also add images to a footer.

Row

A horizontal display of information in a grid. A row can contain text, data, or derived data from a calculation. You can format individual rows in grids.

Column

A vertical display of information in a grid. A column can contain text, data, or derived data from a calculation. You can format individual columns in grids.

Page

The third intersecting reference on a grid report object. A page repeats the data on the row and column over multiple members of additional dimensions. You can define members on a page to show different views of data without rerunning the report.

Cell

An intersection of a row, column, page, and POV for a grid

Note:

You can format individual cells in a grid