Choose report elements
After placing a container on a report page, add the report elements that hold the data and determine how the report looks.
Data View
Icons at the top of the Data View specify the type of object created when you drag and drop a data value. See Adding fields from the Data View.
Tool Box view
Choose elements in the Tool Box depending on what you want to display.
To display | Use |
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Single line of text | Word Box |
Multiple lines of text | Word Wrap Box |
Text with formatting that cannot be achieved with a Word Box or Word Wrap Box | Paragraph and Paragraph Text |
Rich text from the fglrichtext web component | Rich Text Box |
HTML document | HTML Box |
PDF document | PDF Box |
Image | Image Box |
Numeric data | Decimal Format Box |
Date | Date Format Box |
Page break | Break |
Page numbers on each page | Page Number Box |
Standard table | Table |
Pivot table | Pivot table |
Graph with one set of values | Map chart |
Graph with two sets of values mapped against each other | Category chart |
Graph with an XY plot | XY chart |
Values such as "Total from previous pages" or "Totals until this point" | An Info Node and a Reference Box |
Bar code | Bar Code Box |