Report properties

To see the properties of a report, right-click it in the Report Catalog and select Properties. You can view the properties in alphabetical order, or categorized on tabs.

Advanced tab

The Advanced tab displays this information:

The unique ID
To whom the report is checked out
Position: The position of the report or folder within its parent.
Content State: If the report forms part of an application component, the content state can be Valid or Modified. If content exists and has been modified, it is overwritten by any further import. If the report or folder is not part of an application component, the Content State displays 'Not part of content'
Content Version: When you create an application component, you must specify a version. If the report is part of an application component, the version is displayed.
Content Caption: Application components have a unique name and a name. If the report is part of an application component, the Content Caption field displays the component name.

Application tab

The Application tab displays this information:

Application Name
Application Vendor
Application Version
Content State: If the report forms part of an application component, the content state can be Valid or Modified. If content exists and has been modified, it is overwritten by any further import. If the report or folder is not part of an application component, the Content State displays 'Not part of content'
Protected Content: Indicates whether the content is protected from editing.

Dashboard behavior

You can specify preferred and minimum heights and widths. When a user adds a report to a dashboard, it is initially displayed with the preferred width and height, if specified. If a minimum width and height are specified then, in a dashboard, users can expand the report but cannot reduce it to less than the minimum specified dimensions.

Jump behavior: In dashboards, Application Studio reports are displayed in widgets. If a report contains a jump to another report, you can specify the jump behavior. Select Replace Widget to replace the source report's widget with the target report. Select Replace Dashboard to open the target report in a new dashboard. If you select Controlled by Dashboard, the jump behavior can be specified in the dashboard, in the properties of the source widget.
Start interaction after drop: By default, to interact with reports displayed in widgets, dashboard users must manually switch report widgets to interaction mode. But, for reports used as templates on mobile devices you should specify that interaction mode is automatically enabled. Select TRUE to enable interaction mode as soon as a report is dropped onto a dashboard.
Thumbnail: You can specify a thumbnail image to be displayed next to the report name in the report browser in Dashboards. Click the browse button to display the Thumbnail dialog.; You can also access the Thumbnail dialog from the Format menu.

General tab

You can specify the name of the report, the unique name and a description.

The unique name of the report is used to reference it. It does not depend on the language specified in Application Studio. It can contain only the characters A-Z (no special characters), the numbers 0-9, and the character "_". The name must not be longer than 50 characters and must not start with a number.

You can localize the contents of the Description field:

Check out the report.
Click in the Description field to enable its browse button.
Click the browse button. The Edit dialog is displayed.
For any language that is listed, double-click the Description field and specify a description in that language.

You can also localize a description in the Rename dialog. Right-click a report and select Rename.

Options tab

These are the options:

Style sheet

To assign a style sheet to a report, click the Options tab and click Style sheet. Select a style sheet from the list.

Note: When you assign a style sheet in this way (instead of creating a report based on a style sheet) you must copy the styles from the style sheet.

Calculate visible cells only

This option is selected by default. Further cells become visible, and are calculated, as you scroll through the report. Generally, this is more efficient than calculating all cells when the report opens.

But, if a report accesses a database with a slow response time, or the report contains a large amount of data, clear this box and calculate all the cells when the report is opened.

Note: If a report contains hidden formulas and Calculate visible cells only is selected, the formulas are not calculated unless they are referenced by a cell that is visible. But, in the web , all cells must be calculated, so this option has no effect.

Hide from report viewers

You can specify that a report or folder is not visible in, for example, the content browser of Dashboards.

Calculate action conditions

Select this to specify whether the conditions for actions are evaluated. For example, you have a report that contains a jump to another report. The jump action displays a hyperlink in the report. As the condition of the action, you specify that the value of the _CurrentUser variable must be UserA.

If the value of the Calculate action conditions property is FALSE, the jump action displays a hyperlink, regardless of whether the condition of the action is met. If the condition is not met, the hyperlink does not work. If the value of Calculate action conditions is TRUE, the condition is evaluated and the hyperlink is only displayed if the condition of the action is met. If the condition is not met, only the text of the hyperlink is displayed. So, users who are not permitted to see the target report need not be aware of its existence. If a report is large, calculating the action conditions can take some time.

Editable with the Report Wizard

For reports based on templates, or reports designed for use in dashboards, you can specify whether users can use the report wizard to provide different values for the report parameters.

Immediate writeback

Specify <Inherit from catalog>, Enable to enable immediate write-back, or Disable to disable immediate write-back.

Note: The Immediate writeback optional input in Set Parameters actions enables you to switch immediate writeback on and off, on the fly, in reports in the web. In the full client, writeback is always immediate.

This table shows the keys and keyboard shortcuts that trigger the write-back:


Key or keyboard shortcut
<Enter>
<Shift + Enter>
<Tab>
<Shift + Tab>
Any arrow key

Note: If you press the <Esc> key while the cell is in edit mode, the original value of the cell is restored and the edit mode is terminated.

Link

If the report is a linked report or a report snapshot, the name of the report from which it was created is shown.

Writeback behavior

This option enables Spreadsheet mode or Form mode. These modes affect navigation in the web within and between writable cells.

In Spreadsheet mode, you can navigate between cells with the Tab key or with the arrow keys on the keyboard. The currently selected cell has a border. To edit a cell, press F2 or double-click the cell.

In Form mode, you can navigate between cells with the Tab key or with the mouse. The left and right arrow keys move the cursor one character at a time, through the value in the cell. The up and down arrows move the cursor to the beginning or end of the value respectively.

In Form mode, the current cell is not indicated, except by the position of the cursor.

In the Application Settings dashboard in EPM Administration, you can specify either Spreadsheet or Form as the default mode for all reports in an application.

In Application Studio select <Inherit from catalog> as the value of the Writeback behavior option to enable the default mode on a report. Or, to override the default, specify Form or Spreadsheet as appropriate.

Splashing

Specify whether splashing to consolidated cells is enabled, disabled, or inherited from the catalog.