Sorting, drilling, and paging

Most of data manipulation techniques of the Desktop application can be used in the mobile app also; like ordering rows or going deeper in detail.

Getting ready

We will use the reports named 17 Internet Sales by Category, Country and Year and 18 Dynamic Aggregation by Country and Product. You need to have completed them to continue.

How to do it...

Open the mobile app and scroll the report list to find the number 17: this one has a page-by element:

1. Tap the report and run it, you will see the result page and a new bar with a button selector. In this case, the Year attribute is the page-by element.

2. Tap in the center of the grid and swipe, you will see an indicator showing the present year and the next (or previous) flashing for a brief moment. When the indicator fades away, the grid shows the results for another year.

3. Repeat the swipe to move back or forth in the page elements (depending on the sort order, the past years are to the right or to the left).

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