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Create Crosstab Dialog (Business View Based)

The Create Crosstab dialog that is based on business view appears when you select Insert > Crosstab, or drag the Crosstab button from the Components panel into a report that is created using business views. It helps you to create a crosstab in the report, and consists of the following screens:

• Data
• Display
• Filter
• Layout
• Style

Back

Goes back to the previous screen.

Next

Goes to the next screen.

Finish

Finishes creating the crosstab and closes this dialog.

Cancel

Does not retain changes and closes this dialog.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.

Data

Specifies the data source that you want to use to create the crosstab. See the screen.

Resources

Lists all the business views in the current catalog. Specify the one you want to use.

Display

Specifies the fields that you want to display in the crosstab. See the screen.

Title

Specifies the title of the crosstab.

Resources

Lists all the available data resources. You can also create dynamic formulas and aggregations to use in the crosstab.

Adds the selected field to be displayed on the columns of the crosstab.

Adds the selected field to be displayed on the rows of the crosstab.

Adds the selected field on which to create summaries.

Columns/Rows

• Field
  Lists the fields that will be displayed on the columns/rows of the crosstab.
• Label
  Specifies the display names for the selected fields. By default these are blank and no names will be created for the fields to label the columns/rows. You can double-click the cells to edit them if required.
• Color
  Specifies the background color of the selected fields.

Summaries

• Field
  Lists the fields that you select to create summaries.
• Aggregate
  Specifies the functions used to summarize data of the selected fields. For details about each function, see Math functions.
• Label
  Specifies the display names for the selected fields. By default these are blank and no names will be created for the fields to label the summaries. You can double-click the cells to edit them if required.
• Comparison Function
  Opens the Comparison Function dialog to add a comparison function as an aggregate for the crosstab.

Specifies in which manner to sort the field values.

Moves the specified field one step up.

Moves the specified field one step down.

Removes the specified field that is not required from the crosstab.

Filter

Specifies to filter data displayed in the crosstab. See the screen.

The options in the screen are the same as those in the Edit Filter dialog.

Layout

Specifies the layout of the crosstab. See the screen.

For details about options in the screen, refer to Customizing Crosstab Layout.

Style

Specifies the style of the crosstab. See the screen.

Style

Specifies the style of the crosstab.

Preview

Shows a sketch of the selected style.

Inherit Style

Specifies whether to make the crosstab take the style of its parent. This options is available only when the crosstab is inserted in a banded object in a page report.

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