Previous Topic  Next Topic

Convert to Crosstab Dialog Box Properties

This topic describes how you can use the Convert to Crosstab dialog box to convert a table or chart to a crosstab. Server displays the dialog box when you focus on a table or a chart and then select on the visualization toolbar but the data fields in the table or chart are not enough for a crosstab.

Crosstab Title

Specifies a title for the crosstab.

Specifies the font properties of the crosstab title. After you select the button, Server displays the following dialog box for you to edit the font properties:

• Font
  Select the font face of the title.
• Font Style
  Select the font style of the title: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic.
• Size
  Specify the font size of the title.
• Align
  Specify the position of the title to be left, right, center, or justify.
• Font Color
  Specify the font color of the title.

  To change the color, select the color indicator. Server displays the color palette. Select a color, or select More Colors to access the Color Picker dialog box in which you can specify a color within a wider range. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value to specify a color, for example, #9933ff.

• Background Color
  Specify the background color of the title.
• OK
  Select to apply any changes you made here and exit the dialog box.
• Cancel
  Select to close the dialog box without saving any changes.

Data Source

Specifies a business view on which the crosstab will be built from the Data Source drop-down list.

Filter

Opens the Query Filter dialog box to specify the filter which you want to apply to the selected business view.

Resources

Displays the elements in the selected business view.

Show All Fields/Show Used Fields

Specifies to show all the business view elements or only the ones used in the current data component in the Resources box. Not available when you select another business view to convert to crosstab with.

Sorts the view elements in the specified order from the drop-down list. Once a user changes the order, it will be applied to all the resource trees where business view elements are listed for this user.

• Predefined Order
  Select if you want to sort the resources in the order as in the Business View Editor of Designer.
• Resource Types
  Select if you want to sort the resources by the resource type. Namely, category objects come first, then group objects, then aggregation objects, and at last detail objects.
• Alphabetical Order
  Select if you want to sort the resources in alphabetical order. Logi Report sorts the resources that are not in any category first, and then the categories. It also sorts the resources in each category alphabetically.

Launches the search bar to search for view elements.

See the following properties in the search bar:

• Text box
  Type the text you want to search in the text box. Server lists the values that contain the matched text.
• Close button
  Select to close the search bar.
• More Options button
  Select the button and Server displays more search options.
  • Highlight All
    Select if you want to highlight all matched text.
  • Match Case
    Select if you want to search for text that meets the case of the typed text.
  • Match Whole Word
    Select if you want to search for text that looks the same as the typed text.
• Previous button
  Select to go to the previous matched text when you have selected Highlight All.
• Next button
  Select to go to the next matched text when you have selected Highlight All.

Adds the selected group object to be displayed in the columns of the crosstab.

Adds the selected group object to be displayed in the rows of the crosstab.

Adds the selected aggregation object or detail object to be the summary field of the crosstab.

Columns/Rows

• Field
  Lists the group objects that will be displayed in the columns/rows of the crosstab.
• Label
  Specifies the text of the labels for the column/row headers. You can select a text box to edit the label, or select the Auto Map Field Name checkbox beside the text box to automatically map the label to the dynamic display name of the object.
• Sort
  Specifies the sort order of the group objects.

Summaries

• Field
  Lists the objects that you select to create summaries.
• Label
  Specifies the text of the labels for the summaries. You can select a text box to edit the label, or select the Auto Map Field Name checkbox beside the text box to automatically map the label to the dynamic display name of the object.
• Aggregate
  Specifies the functions used to summarize data of the selected detail objects.
• Distinct On
  Available and should be set when DistinctSum is selected as the aggregate function. It specifies the detail objects according to whose unique values to calculate DistinctSum. Select the ellipsis button in the text box to select the detail objects in the Select Fields dialog box.
• Comparison Function
  Opens the Comparison Function dialog box to add a comparison function as an aggregate for the crosstab.

Move Up button

Select to move the selected item higher in the list.

Move Down button

Select to move the selected item lower in the list.

Removes the selected resource.

OK

Converts to the specified crosstab and closes the dialog box.

Cancel

Cancels the conversion and closes the dialog box.

Displays the help document about this feature.

Ignores the setting and closes this dialog box.

Back to top

Previous Topic  Next Topic