Working with controls
Controls provide the ability to drive a set of operations inside the document through scripting. This book has focused on setting objects and parameters using the Interactive Reporting menus and screens, but Interactive Reporting also provides the ability to script many of the operations inside the document.
This section will provide an overview of how to access, build, and execute some of the simple tool behaviors. The examples will focus on building controls on the dashboard to assist with filtering the presentation sections of the document using Interactive Reporting programming methods.
Control types
There are ten different control types, with eight focused on performing operations on a dashboard and two (Embedded Browser and Hyperlink) focused on external content. The objects can be visible or hidden and can be enabled or disabled on the dashboard. The following is a breakdown of each type of control:
The Command Button is a button on a dashboard that is used to...
