Understanding Report Definition Previews

After you set up a statement definition, you can preview the information that the system will pass to the BI Publisher Layout Editor. The preview enables you to review all of the sections in the statement definition and the data items in those sections that you will have available for your layout. The preview includes the additional data items that the system makes available to you when you use certain grouping elements in your row definitions.

See Grouping Elements that Return Additional Elements

When you use the preview feature, the system displays a panel on the right side of the Revise Statement Definitions form that lists each section and the grouping elements, if any, in the sections; and the column definitions, if any, associated with each section in the statement definition. The preview uses the value in the Section Description field of the statement definition as the first level in the preview pane. Underneath the section description, the panel lists the elements and the column definitions that the system will pass to the BI Publisher Layout Editor.