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Working with Components in Reports
Components are the objects that you can place in a report. Logi Report provides a full set of components that enable you to present and control the report data and presentation in a wide variety of ways. This topic introduces the usage of each component.
Component Categories
Logi Report classifies the components into the following categories:
- Visual: Chart, Map, KPI, and Rank
- Grid: Table, Crosstab, and Tabular
- Basic: Label, Text Box, Image, Subreport, and Banded Object
- Web controls: Filter Control, Parameter Control, Parameter Form Control, Navigation Control, Expand/Collapse Group, Radio Button, Checkbox, Drop-down List, List, Text Field, Password, Text Area, Button, Image Button, and Form
- Fields: DBField, Formula Field, Summary Field, and Parameter Field
- Drawing objects: Line, Arc, Box, Oval, and Round Box
- Special fields: Print Date, Print Time, Fetch Date, Fetch Time, Record Number, and many more
- Others: UDO, Barcode, and Multimedia Object (including Applet, RealMedia, and Windows Media)
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Data Components
Some components must be bound with a dataset to display data, so Logi Report refers to them as data components or data containers. These components include Chart, Table, Crosstab, Banded Object, Geographic Map, and KPI. In page reports and web reports, when two data containers in a parent-child relationship apply different datasets, you can use data container links to set up data relations between them.
After you bind a dataset to the report body, Logi Report also regards the report body as a special data container. In this case, if you place a tabular directly inside the report body, the tabular applies the same dataset as the report body and becomes a data container too; if you place nested tabulars and the parent of the outermost tabular is the report body, all these tabulars apply dataset of the report body and turn to be data containers.
Components Supported for Different Report Types
You can use all components except KPI in page reports that apply query resources; while for page reports using business views, web reports, and library components, only some of them.
In page reports based on business view, you can use these components: Table, Crosstab, 2-D Chart, Banded Object, Label, Image, DBField, Formula Field, Summary Field, Parameter Field, Special Field, Drawing Object, Multimedia Object, Parameter Control, Parameter Form Control, Filter Control, and Navigation Control.
Components supported in web reports include: Table, Crosstab, 2-D Chart, Banded Object, Geographic Map, KPI, Tabular, Label, Image, DBField, Formula Field, Summary Field, Parameter Field, Special Field, Multimedia Object, and web controls excluding Expand/Collapse Group and Form.
In library components, you can use the following: Table, Crosstab, 2-D Chart, Geographic Map, KPI, Label, Image, DBField, Formula Field, Summary Field, Parameter Field, Special Field, and web controls excluding Expand/Collapse Group and Form.
Component Placement
You can place components within banded objects or some other components, in the page headers and footers, and in an empty area in the report body. When you insert a component, Designer indicates whether the target location is valid for the component.
The following table lists the report areas that are valid targets for different components in each report type. For components that you cannot use in a report type, you see "/" in the corresponding cells.
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Report Body | Banded Header Panel (BH) | Banded Page Header Panel (BPH) | Banded Detail Panel (DT) | Banded Page Footer Panel (BPF) | Banded Footer Panel (BF) | Banded Group Header Panel (GH) | Banded Group Footer Panel (GF) | Text Box | Table Cell | Tabular Cell | Page Header/ Footer Panel | Banded Header Panel (BH) | Banded Page Header Panel (BPH) | Banded Detail Panel (DT) | Banded Page Footer Panel (BPF) | Banded Footer Panel (BF) | Banded Group Header Panel (GH) | Banded Group Footer Panel (GF) | Table Cell | Tabular Cell | KPI | Page Header/ Footer Panel | Report Body | KPI | Table Cell |
| Chart | Y | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N |
| Table | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N |
| Crosstab | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N |
| Banded Object | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | Y | / | / | / |
| Map | Y | Y | N | N | N | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N |
| KPI | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N |
| Label | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| DBField | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y |
| Parameter Field | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | N | Y |
| Summary Field | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y |
| Formula Field | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y |
| Special Field | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | N | Y |
| Tabular | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | / | / | / |
| Web Control | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Y | N | N |
| Image | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Multimedia Object | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N | Y | / | / | / |
| Text Box | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Subreport | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Drawing Object | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | N | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| UDO | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | N | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Barcode | You can insert barcode and rank components in a report area that is valid for the component on which the barcode or rank is based. For example, you can insert a rank component that represents a DBField in the report areas in which a DBField component is allowed. | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | |||||||||||
| Rank | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | ||||||||||||