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Convert to Table Dialog Box Properties

This topic describes how you can use the Convert to Table dialog box to convert a table to another table. Server displays the dialog box when you focus on a table and then select the table icon on the visualization toolbar.

Table Title

Specify a title for the table.

Select the button, and Server displays the following dialog box for you to edit the font properties of the table title:

• Font
  Select the font face of the title.
• Font Style
  Select the font style of the title: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic.
• Size
  Specify the font size of the title.
• Align
  Specify the position of the title to be left, right, center, or justify.
• Font Color
  Specify the font color of the title.

  To change the color, select the color indicator. Server displays the color palette. Select a color, or select More Colors to access the Color Picker dialog box in which you can specify a color within a wider range. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value to specify a color, for example, #9933ff.

• Background Color
  Specify the background color of the title.
• OK
  Select to apply any changes you made here and exit the dialog box.
• Cancel
  Select to close the dialog box without saving any changes.

Data Source

Select a business view on which you want to build the table.

Filter

Select to open the Query Filter dialog box to specify the filter you want to apply to the selected business view.

Table type drop-down menu

Specify the type of the table. The tabs available in the dialog box differ according to the selected table type. When you select a group table type, you can define the table in the Details, Group, and Summary tabs respectively; when you select the summary table type, only the Columns tab is available.

• Group Above
  Select to create a table with group information above the detail row.
• Group Left
  Select to create a table with group information left to the detail row.
• Group Left Above
  Select to create a table with group information left above the detail row.
• Summary Table
  Select to create a table with only group and summary information.

Show All Fields/Show Used Fields

Select to show all the business view elements or only the ones that the current data component uses, in the Resources box. This pair of properties are not available when you select another business view to convert to table with.

OK

Select to convert to the specified table and close the dialog box.

Cancel

Select to close the dialog box without conversion.

Help button

Select to view information about the dialog box.

Close button

Select to close the dialog box without conversion.

The tabs in the dialog box are different according to the following table types:

• For Group Left, Group Above, and Group Left Above
• For Summary Table

For Group Left, Group Above, and Group Left Above

The dialog box consists of the following tabs: Details, Group, and Summary.

Details

Specify the detail fields that you want to display in the table.

Resources

Server displays all the group and detail objects in the selected business view.

Select an order for sorting the resources in the business view. The order applies to all the resource trees where you see the business view.

The order can be one of the following:

• Predefined Order
  Select if you want to sort the resources in the order as in the Business View Editor of Designer.
• Resource Types
  Select if you want to sort the resources by the resource type. Namely, category objects come first, then group objects, then aggregation objects, and at last detail objects.
• Alphabetical Order
  Select if you want to sort the resources in alphabetical order. Logi Report sorts the resources that are not in any category first, and then the categories. It also sorts the resources in each category alphabetically.

Search button

Select to launch the search bar to search for view elements.

See the following properties in the search bar:

• Text box
  Type the text you want to search in the text box. Server lists the values that contain the matched text.
• Close button
  Select to close the search bar.
• More Options button
  Select the button and Server displays more search options.
  • Highlight All
    Select if you want to highlight all matched text.
  • Match Case
    Select if you want to search for text that meets the case of the typed text.
  • Match Whole Word
    Select if you want to search for text that looks the same as the typed text.
• Previous button
  Select to go to the previous matched text when you have selected Highlight All.
• Next button
  Select to go to the next matched text when you have selected Highlight All.

Add button

Select to add the selected object to display in the table.

Remove button

Select to remove the selected object you added.

Field

Server lists the objects that you have added to the table as the detail fields.

Label

Specify the text for the labels of the detail columns, which by default are the display names of the added objects. You can select a text box to edit the label, or select the Auto Map Field Name checkbox beside the text box to automatically map the label to the dynamic display name of the object.

Select to move the selected item higher in the list.

Move Down button

Select to move the selected item lower in the list.

Sort Field By

Select to open the Custom Sort dialog box to specify how to sort data in the table.

Group

Specify the fields to group the data.

Resources

Server displays all the available group objects you can use to group the data in the table.

Sort button

Select an order for sorting the group objects.

Search button

Select to launch the search bar to search for view elements.

Add button

Select to add the selected group object as a group field.

Remove button

Select to remove the selected group object.

Field

Server lists all the group objects that you have added as the group fields.

Sort

Specify the sort order for groups at the specific group level.

• Ascend
  Select to sort groups in an ascending order (A, B, C).
• Descend
  Select to sort groups in a descending order (C, B, A).
• No Sort
  Select to sort groups in the original order as in the catalog.
• Custom Sort
  Select to open the Custom Sort dialog box to set how to sort groups.

Select to move the selected item higher in the list.

Move Down button

Select to move the selected item lower in the list.

Summary

Specify the fields on which you want to create summaries.

Resources

Server displays all the available aggregation objects you can use to create summaries in the table.

Sort button

Select an order for sorting the aggregation objects.

Search button

Select to launch the search bar to search for view elements.

Add button

Select to add the selected aggregation object as the summary field.

Remove button

Select to remove the selected aggregation object.

Field

Server lists the groups that you have added in the table and the aggregation objects you added to summarize data in each group.

Row

Specify to put the summary field in the header or footer row. If you want to calculate the summary on a group-by field, put it in the group header or footer of the corresponding group; To calculate the summary on the table, put it in the table header or footer. The Row column is available only when the table is Group Left type.

Column

Specify to put the summary field in the specified detail column. If you select no column, Server will display the summary field in a separate summary column. The Column column is available only when the table is Group Left type.

Select to move the selected item higher in the list.

Move Down button

Select to move the selected item lower in the list.

For Summary Table

The dialog box consists of the following tabs: Columns and Summary.

Columns

Specify the fields to be the columns of the table.

Resources

Server displays all the available group and aggregation objects.

Sort button

Select an order for sorting the view elements.

Search button

Select to launch the search bar to search for view elements.

Add button

Select to add the selected object to display in the table.

Remove button

Select to remove the selected object you added.

Column

Server lists the objects that you have added to the table.

Sort

Specify the sort order for groups at the specific group level.

• Ascend
  Select to sort groups in an ascending order (A, B, C).
• Descend
  Select to sort groups in a descending order (C, B, A).
• No Sort
  Select to sort groups in the order as in the catalog.
• Custom Sort
  Select to open the Custom Sort dialog box to set how to sort groups.

Select to move the selected item higher in the list.

Move Down button

Select to move the selected item lower in the list.

Summary

Specify to insert aggregations to the header/footer rows of the table and groups.

Resources

Server displays the aggregations you selected in the Columns tab.

Summarized Fields

Server displays the group fields you selected in the Columns tab under the Table node.

Header

The table header or the group header of a specific group. After selecting an aggregation in the Resources box, you can select the checkboxes in the column to insert the aggregation in the corresponding header rows.

Footer

The table footer or the group footer of a specific group. After selecting an aggregation in the Resources box, you can select the checkboxes in the column to insert the aggregation in the corresponding footer rows.

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