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Create Ad Hoc Reports
There are two types of ad hoc reports in Logi Report, Web Report and Page Report. Both are created from a business view in a catalog. Business views have the capability of providing multiple hierarchies allowing for automatic drill down and drill up for detailed analysis and slicing and dicing data which is especially powerful using a crosstab component.
To create ad hoc reports, you should have logged onto the Logi Report Server console, and disabled the Pop-up Blocker on your web browser. Then:
To create a web report:
- In the Logi Report Server Start Page, select Web Report in the Create category.
Web Report Studio is then displayed in a new tab, prompting you to select data for the new report.
- In the Select Catalog dialog, select the catalog published to the server resource tree, which contains the data you want to use for the report. select OK.
- In the Select Data Source dialog, select the required data source in the specified catalog from the Data Source drop-down list, the business view in the selected data source in the Resources box, then in the right box select the data fields you want to display in the report.
- Select OK. A table report is generated.
To create a page report:
- In the Logi Report Server Start Page, select Page Report in the Create category.
- In the displayed page, select the folder that contains the catalog you want to use to create the page report and then the catalog. select OK.
- The New Page Report dialog appears for you to create a page report with the first report tab in it.
- Specify the title of the report tab in the Report Title text box.
- In the Choose Report Layout box, select the required layout with which you want to create the report tab.
- Select OK to create the report.
- If Blank Report is selected as the layout, a report which is blank is created. You can then use the Toolbox and the Resource View panels to add objects and view elements to the report.
- If you select the layout as Banded, Table, Chart, or Crosstab, the corresponding report wizard is then displayed. Specify the data to display according to your requirements.