Report Components

Design Reports by using report components, report objects, and grid components.

Report Components

• Header—An area where you can display text on the top of each page of a report. You can also add images to a header.

• Report Body—The main area of the report where you can insert and display grids, charts, images and text boxes.

• 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.

Report Objects

• Grid—A report object in which you retrieve data in the rows and columns.

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

• 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.

• Image—A report object that contains a graphic or an image file. You can add images to the body of the report and to a header or footer.

• Notes- For Narrative Reporting deployments, you can insert a Note Template into a report for structured POV-based commentary entry.

• Shared – For Narrative Reporting deployments, shared objects (grids, charts, text boxes and image objects), which reside in a shared report, can be inserted in multiple reports, providing a single point of maintenance for the shared report objects.

Grid Components

• 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.

• Cell—An intersection of a row, column, page, and Point of View (POV) for a grid. You can format individual cells in a grid.