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Tabular reports. Displays
information in rows and columns. This is the basic report type, incorporating
the fundamental reporting concepts. Most of the other report formats build
on these concepts. You can display these reports in formats such
as HTML, Excel®, and PDF.
For details,
see Report Painter Basics in the Creating
Reports With Report Painter manual.
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Financial reports. Specifically
designed to handle the task of creating, calculating, and presenting
financially oriented data, such as balance sheets, consolidations,
and budgets. You can build these
reports with the FML (Financial Modeling Language) Painter, a spreadsheet-like
tool that enables you to define the content of the report on a row-by-row
basis. This organization provides a number of advantages. You
can:
- Identify and
display a title for each row of the report.
- Perform row-based
calculations and include the results at any point on the report.
- Include the
same record in multiple categories.
- Include many
types of formatting enhancements on a cell-by-cell basis.
- Save individual
rows and row titles in extract files.
For details about the FML language,
see the Creating Financial Reports manual.
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Free-form reports. Presents
detailed information about a single record in a form-like context
that is often used with letters and forms. If your goal is to present
a detailed picture of one record per report page, you can use free-form
reports to:
- Position headers,
footers, free text, and fields precisely on a page.
- Customize your
headers and footers by including fields as display variables.
- Incorporate
prefix operators in your headers and footers to perform calculations
on the aggregated values of a single field.
- Use vertical (By) sorting
to put one or more report records on each page.
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Charts. Presents
the same kinds of information as tabular reports, but in a wide
variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional chart types. You
can create and customize charts using InfoAssist.
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OLAP reports. Allow users
to drill down or roll up data hierarchies, pivot fields from columns
to rows (or vice versa), and separate information by filtering or
querying data sources based on specified criteria or thresholds.
For
details about OLAP reports, see the Online Analytical Processing
(OLAP) manual.
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Drill Through reports. Allow
users to create a PDF document that contains a summary report plus
a detail report, where the detail report contains all the detail
data for designated fields in the summary report. Clicking a Drill
Through hyperlink navigates internally in the PDF file and no additional
reports are run. Drill Through reports are static. You can save
the PDF file to disk or distribute it using ReportCaster. When opened
with Acrobat® Reader, it retains its full Drill Through functionality.
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Excel Compound reports. Provides
a way to generate multiple worksheet reports using the EXL2K output
format. By default, each of the component reports from the compound report
is placed in a new Excel worksheet. If the NOBREAK keyword is used,
the next report follows the current report on the same worksheet.
For
more information, see Linking a Report to Other Resources
in the Creating Reports With WebFOCUS Language manual.
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Excel Table of Contents reports. Provides
a way to generate a multiple worksheet report where a separate worksheet
is generated for each value of the first BY field in the WebFOCUS report.
For more information,
see Choosing a Display Format
in the Creating Reports With WebFOCUS Language manual.