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SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook

You're reading from   SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook Over 80 recipes to help you build, customize, and distribute reports using SAP BusinessObjects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782172437
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yoav Yohav Yoav Yohav
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Working with the BI Launch Pad FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating New Queries 3. Working Inside the Report 4. Working with Tables 5. Working with Charts 6. Formatting Reports 7. Filtering the Report Data 8. Merging Data 9. Using Formulas and Variables 10. Using Hyperlinks 11. Using Drill 12. Scheduling Reports 13. Working with BI Workspaces 14. Web Intelligence Rich Client Index

Getting to know the structure of tables


Although we have different types of tables, we can start from the basic and most common table type, which is the vertical table.

Getting ready

We want to get familiar with the basic vertical table structure and display some data in it.

How to do it...

As we have seen in Chapter 2, Creating New Queries, after the query retrieves the data, in most cases, the data will be displayed in a vertical table. Tables can also be created by dragging-and-dropping certain objects from the available objects pane or by using the report element toolbar.

By looking on at the table, we can distinguish between the following three main parts:

  • The first row is the table header showing the column names and providing us the reference for which result object or a variable does the column stands for. The default color for the header is blue and it can of course be formatted.

  • The second part is where is the data presented, which is the table body. This data area is combined from...

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