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Crosstab Wizard

The Crosstab Wizard guides you through the process of creating a crosstab. It contains the following screens: Data, Display, Query Filter and Style.

Back

Returns to the previous tab.

Next

Goes to the next tab.

Finish

Creates the crosstab and closes the wizard.

Cancel

Closes the wizard without creating a crosstab.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.

Data

Specifies the business view to use to create the crosstab. This screen is hidden when there is only one business view in the current catalog.

Available Data Resources

Lists all the available business views in the current catalog, with which you can create the crosstab.

Display

Specifies the fields to be displayed in the crosstab.

Resources

Displays the view elements in the selected business view. Select one non-folder resource each time and then select a proper arrow button to add it into the corresponding box.

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

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

Adds the selected aggregation object to be the aggregate field of the crosstab.

Columns/Rows

• Field
  Lists the group objects that will be displayed on the column/row headers of the crosstab.
• Display Name
  Specifies the text of the labels for the column/row headers. You can select the text boxes to edit the label text, or check the Auto Map Field Name checkboxes beside the text boxes to automatically map the label text to the dynamic display names of the objects.
• Sort
  Specifies the sort order of the group objects.

• 
  Adds a column/row compound group.

Summaries

• Field
  Lists the aggregation objects that will be the aggregate fields of the crosstab.
• Display Name
  Specifies the text of the labels for the aggregations. You can select the text boxes to edit the label text, or check the Auto Map Field Name checkboxes beside the text boxes to automatically map the label text to the dynamic display names of the objects.

Moves the selected field or compound group one step up. For fields in a compound group, their order can be changed within the current group only.

Moves the selected field or compound group one step down. For fields in a compound group, their order can be changed within the current group only.

Removes the selected field or compound group that is not required from the crosstab.

Query Filter

Specifies the filter which you want to apply to the selected business view.

In this screen, all the predefined filters of the business view are listed in the Query Filter drop-down list. You can choose one of them to apply. If you prefer to define a filter on your own, select User-Defined from the drop-down list, and then define it according to your requirements.

If the selected business view contains parameters, you would be prompted with the Enter Parameter Values dialog to specify values to the parameters before the Query Filter screen is displayed.

For details about options in the screen, refer to Query Filter dialog.

Style

Specifies the style of the crosstab. This screen is hidden when there is only one style available to be applied to the crosstab.

Style

Lists all the available styles for you to select from.

Inherit Style

Specifies to take the style of the parent component. The option is available only when you specify to insert the crosstab into a banded object.

Preview

Shows a preview of the selected style.

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