Using Default Data Formats
This recipe will show you how to specify default data formats to save time during development. This option is available in v10.2.
Getting ready
Create a new crosstab report.
How to do it...
In this recipe we will see how to define a default data format to be used within the report. To do this, perform the following steps:
From the Data menu, open Default Data Formats… as shown in the following screenshot:
Select the Number format and update the properties as you would like to commonly use throughout the report.
Go ahead with report creation as normal. For any numeric column or fact cells, select the data format as Number but don't specify any properties.
Run the report to test it. See that the item with the Number data format follows Default Number Style, that is, two decimal places, negative brackets, and the thousands separator.
How it works...
By defining the detailed properties (decimals, separator, negative sign, error characters, and so on) for each required data format...
