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Applying Web Controls

Web controls are report components designed to be similar to the kinds of controls found on web pages. In Page Report Studio, these four types of web controls can be applied: parameter control, parameter form control, filter control, and navigation control. However for page report created in Logi JReport Designer, you can add web controls to them only when the corresponding catalog contains business views.

A Logi JReport Live license for Logi JReport Server is required in order to use this feature. If you do not have the license, contact your Jinfonet Software account manager to obtain it.

Below is a list of the sections covered in this topic:

• Using Parameter Control to Specify a Parameter to a Report
• Using Parameter Form Control to Run Reports
• Using Filter Control to Filter Report Data
• Using Navigation Control to Undo/Redo Value Selection in Filter Controls

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Using Parameter Control to Specify a Parameter to a Report

A parameter control is a web control that is bound with a parameter used by the current report. By specifying values to the parameter in a parameter control, you can pass the parameter values to Logi JReport and run the report with the specified values.

Cascading parameters cannot be used in parameter controls. If you want to do this, use parameter form controls instead.

To insert a parameter control and use it to specify a parameter to a report:

1. Do either of the following:
   • Select Menu > Insert > Parameter Control, then point to the destination where you want to add the parameter control and select the mouse button.
   • Drag Parameter Control from the Toolbox panel to the destination in the report.

   The Insert Parameter Control dialog appears.

   

2. Select the parameter you would like to add to the parameter control, then select OK.
3. A parameter control will be added into the report. Specify the value for the parameter. You may specify the value in one of these ways.
4. Once the value in the parameter control changes, the report will re-run with the new parameter value.

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Using Parameter Form Control to Run Reports

A parameter form control is a web control that is bound with the parameters used by the current report or other reports. By specifying values to the parameters in a parameter form control, you can make the reports run with the specified parameter values.

To insert a parameter form control and use it to run report:

1. Do either of the following:
   • Select Menu > Insert > Parameter Form Control, then point to the destination where you want to add the parameter form control and select the mouse button.
   • Drag Parameter Form Control from the Toolbox panel to the destination in the report.

   The Insert Parameter Form Control dialog appears.

   

2. Specify the target reports to run using the parameter form control.
   • To run the current report, select Current Report, then specify the parameters used to run the report from the Select Parameters box.
   • To run other reports, select Others, then select the reports you want to run. If all the selected reports contain no parameters, you cannot finish the dialog.
3. Specify whether to include the Submit button in the parameter form control. If Submit is included, it is used to submit the parameter values you specified in the parameter form control. If Submit is not included, once you change the values of a parameter in the parameter form control, the new values will be applied automatically.
4. Select OK in the dialog to save the changes.

   The parameter form control is now inserted in the report. It lists the selected parameters for the current report or lists all parameters used by the specified reports.

5. In the parameter form control, specify values of the listed parameters. You may specify the values in these ways.
6. Select the Submit button to run the current report or the specified reports if the button is available. If there is no Submit button, the change of values in the parameter form control will trigger report re-running.

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Using Filter Control to Filter Report Data

A filter control is used to filter one or more data components in a report, which refer to tables, banded objects, charts, and crosstabs. For how a filter control works, see Filtering Scenarios.

The filters created via filter controls are also referred to as on-screen filters.

To insert a filter control and use it to filter report data:

1. Do either of the following:
   • Drag Filter Control from the Toolbox panel to the destination in the report.
   • Select Menu > Insert > Filter Control, then point to the destination where you want to add the filter control and select the mouse button.

   The Insert Filter Control dialog appears.

   

2. From the Select Fields drop-down list, select the fields of the same data type to bind to the filter control, and then select outside of the drop-down list to close it. The name of the first displayed field you select in the list will be displayed as the name of the filter control.

   To filter components created from the same data source, select a field in the data source.

   To filter components created from different data sources, find a common field these data sources contain, then select the field in each of the data sources.

   

3. All values of the selected fields are used in the filter control by default. If you want to customize the value list, check Customize Initial Values and then select Fetch Data to select the desired values in the Fetch Data dialog. You can also type in the values manually in the text box below.

   To enter a value, input it in one row, and then press the Enter key to start a new row. General text editing operations including copy, paste, cut, backspace, delete and so on are supported. You need to make sure of the accuracy of the formats and values.

   

4. If you do not want the filter control to be affected by other filter controls, unselect Link to Other Filters.
5. The Apply To drop-down list provides the components involving the selected fields. Select the components which you want to filter.
6. When done, select OK.

   The filter control is inserted in the report. Select one or more values to apply.

After inserting filter controls in the report, you can also insert a navigation control for undoing/redoing the value selection in the filter controls.

Managing a Filter Control

When you right-click on the title bar of a filter control, these options are available for managing the filter control.

• Properties
  Opens the Filter Control Properties dialog for modifying the properties of the filter control. The dialog provides an entry to editing the filter control. To do this, in the General tab, select beside the Filter On text box. Then in the Edit Filter Control dialog, change the settings of the filter control.
• Search
  Displays the quick search toolbar which enables you to search values in the filter control. You can also select the button on the title bar of the filter control to launch the quick search toolbar.

  

  The following are details about the usage of the quick search toolbar:

  • Text field
    Type in the text you want to search for in the text field and the matched text will be highlighted among the field values.
  • X
    Closes the quick search toolbar. You can also select outside of the quick search toolbar to achieve this.
  • 
    Lists the advanced options.
    • Highlight All
      Specifies whether to highlight all matched text.
    • Match Case
      Specifies whether to search for text that meets the case of the typed text.
    • Match Whole Word
      Specifies whether to search for text that matches a whole word and ignore partial word matches.
  • 
    When Highlight All is selected, you can use this button to go to the previous matched text.
  • 
    When Highlight All is selected, you can use this button to go to the next matched text.
• Clear
  Cancels the selection of values in the filter control. You can also use the button on the title bar to cancel the selection. This operation can be undone/redone.
• Sort
  Sorts the values in the filter control in the ascending or descending order.
• Delete
  Removes the filter control from the report and the filter you created with the filter control will be removed from the report too. You can also use the close button on the title bar to remove the filter control.
• Hide
  Hides the filter control.

Saving and Using Default Values in Filter Controls

When the Use Default On-screen Filter Values feature is enabled for page reports, each end user can save the values specified to the filter controls in a page report as the default values for the report and for him. Next time when the user runs the report, the saved values will be applied to the filter controls by default. The default values in filter controls work on a user-report basis.

• To save values specified to the filter controls in a report as the default values, on the Menu drop-down list, go to Report > On-screen Filter Values and then select Save as Default.
• To clear the default values that have been saved to the filter controls in a report, on the Menu drop-down list, go to Report > On-screen Filter Values and then select Clear Default.
• To replace the values specified in the filter controls in a report with the saved default values, on the Menu drop-down list, go to Report > On-screen Filter Values and then select Restore to Default.

Link Relationship Between Filter Controls

By default, all the filter controls applied to the same data components in a report are interlinked. The link relationship is reflected on the filter values dynamically: selecting a value in one on-screen filter will result in that values which do not belong to the selected value, contain the selected value or relate to the selected value are grayed in all the other linked filter controls for distinguishing. For example, there is a filter control based on the field Country and another on City and they both are applied to the same table. When you select USA in the Country filter control, the values in the City filter control will change as follows if the control has scrollbar: the cities belong to USA are displayed in the upper area of the filter control, and the other cities are put in the lower area and grayed out. If the City filter control has no scrollbar, all the values remain their positions and the values not belonging to USA are grayed out. In both cases all the values are still selectable.

When using a filter control, you can determine whether or not to make the filter control apply the link relationship via the Link to Other Filters option.

Below is an example showing the logic of other linked filters:

When

• Filter1 is applied to DC1, DC2, and DC3.
• Filter2 is applied to DC1.
• Filter3 is applied To DC2.
• Filter4 is applied to DC2 and DC3.

The result:

• For Filter1, other linked filters are Filter2, Filter3, and Filter4.
• For Filter2, other linked filter is Filter1.
• For Filter3, other linked filters are Filter1 and Filter4.
• For Filter4, other linked filters are Filter1 and Filter3

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Using Navigation Control to Undo/Redo Value Selection in Filter Controls

A navigation control can be considered as an accessorial control for filter controls and is used to deal with the value selection operations in all the filter controls in the same report.

To insert a navigation control into a report, do either of the following:

• Select Menu > Insert > Navigation Control, then point to the destination where you want to add the navigation control and select the mouse button.
• Drag Navigation Control from the Toolbox panel to the destination in the report.

A navigation control is a combination of three buttons:

• Back
  Goes back to the previous value selection status and refreshes the report data accordingly.
• Clear
  Removes all the value selection histories and all the filter conditions based on the selections, and refreshes the report data accordingly.
• Forward
  Goes forward to the next value selection status and refreshes the report data accordingly.

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