Chapter 1. Report Authoring Basic Concepts
In this chapter, we will cover the following:
- Summary filters and detail filters
- Sorting grouped values
- Aggregation and rollup aggregation
- Implementing if-then-else in filters
- Formatting data – dates, numbers, and percentages
- Creating sections
- Hiding columns in crosstabs
- Prompts – display value versus use value
Introduction
In this chapter, we will cover some fundamental techniques that will be used in your day-to-day life as a Report Studio author. In each recipe, we will take a real-life example and see how it can be accomplished. At the end of the chapter, you will learn several concepts and ideas which you can mix-and-match to build complex reports. Though this chapter is called Report Authoring Basic Concepts ...
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