Chapter 8. Reports

Reports provide the business analyst with the ability to combine multiple metrics from a set of reporting objects and data in the document into a single view. Reports are used to display content in a printable format, where Pivots, Charts, Report tables, and Report specific objects can be added to the section to display content. Reports are commonly used to create printable or PDF documents, but the section can also be used to analyze content or generate images to be used in presentations. The focus of this chapter is to provide the business analyst with the knowledge to create and configure a report as well as analyze content and integrate data across datasets.

The Report section provides features not common to other sections, including the ability to slice the data using the Report Group feature that creates a split of data and objects displayed in a report by fields in a Table. The Report also provides the flexibility to combine data from different queries and perform...