The Template
A
template
specifies what information to retrieve from the data warehouse and how this information is displayed in the report results. Templates may contain any of the following objects, in any combination:
Attribute—Provides context in which to report on and analyze business facts or calculations. While knowing your company’s total sales is useful, knowing where and when the sales took place provides the kind of analytical depth users require on a daily basis.
Metric—Represents business measures and key performance indicators. Metrics are the calculations performed on data stored in your database, the results of which are displayed on a report. All the metrics are grouped together and bound to one axis
(the rows or the columns).
Object Prompt—Enables users to define at run time which objects will appear on the template. A prompt is a question the system presents to a user during report execution. How the user answers the question determines what data is displayed on the report when it is returned from your data source.
Consolidation—Enables you to group attribute elements in new ways without changing the metadata and warehouse definitions. You can use consolidations on a report just like regular attributes. Consolidations allow you to qualify a report on a row-by-row basis.
Custom Group—Is made up of an ordered collection of components called custom group elements. Each element contains a set of filtering or banding qualifications.
Qualifications are the actual conditions that must be met for data to be included in the custom group element. Examples include “Region = Northeast” or “Revenue > $1 million”.
The Report Filter
A
report filter
specifies the conditions that the data must meet to be included in the report results. You can create the following types of report filters:
Attribute Form qualification
Attribute Element List qualification
Date qualification
Metric Value qualification
Filter qualification
Report As Filter qualification
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