Visual Report Explorer
When you open a Visual Report, the Visual Report Explorer
opens in the Explorer Bar. The Visual Report Explorer is a dockable
tool window that displays in a tree structure the visual report
that is active in the Design Pane. The tree includes two main branches:
- Data Source branch displays information about the data source
for the report
- Report branch displays information about the active visual report
in the design pane.
Data Source branch
This branch of the tree displays information about the
data source that is used for the visual report. It identifies
the name and location of each data item that will be used in the
report. There are three nodes in the Data Source branch:
- The Columns node which displays the column names of the data
that will be used. These are the columns names from the query results.
- The Variables node displays information identifying the variables
that will be used in the report.
- The Linked Pictures node displays information identifying the
graphics (pictures) that will be used in the report.
Report branch
This branch of the tree displays information about the
active visual report that is in the Design pane. There are three
nodes in the Report branch:
- The Embedded Pictures node displays the names of the
graphic files (pictures) that have been inserted in the report.
- The Groups node displays any grouping and aggregation
that has been specified and will be applied to the columns of the
report.
- The Sections node displays information about each section
of the report as it is being designed in the design window. There
are four Sections nodes:
- The Page Heading node lists each element that has been inserted
for the page heading.
- The Detail node lists each element that has been inserted for
the report page. There are multiple detail nodes. One for each page
of the report.
- The Report Footing node lists the elements that have been inserted
for the report footings.
- The Page Footing node lists the elements that have been inserted
for each page footing for the report.
