Configuring the Report VIewer to Output Text or Blurb Summaries

Last Updated: 08/12/2016 Introduced in Verision: 2.0

Report data in a Report Viewer can be summarized in the format of text or blurbs.  These text and blurb summaries must have already been created for the report in the Report Designer.

To change the output option to Text or Blurb, in the Page Designer, select the Report Viewer component in the workspace, then choose Blurb or Text from the Output Option drop down list in the Properties Panel.

Example

The goal of this example is to:

  1. Create a portal page, and add a Report Viewer to it.
  2. Set the default report to display in the Report Viewer, then set the output option to display blurb summaries of report data.
  3. View the page to see the blurb summaries.
  4. Edit the page to set the output option to display text summaries of report data.
  5. View the page to see the text summaries.

To begin, navigate to a Designer folder and click the Create Portal Page button.

createPage

 

Give the page a name and click Ok to open it in the Page Designer.

namePage

 

From the Toolbox Panel, expand the Reports category and drag a Report Viewer component into the workspace.

dragReportViewer

 

To set the report that will display by default when a user opens the page, in the Properties Panel, in the Behavior section, click the Default Report selector.

clickDefaultReportSelector 

In the resulting Picker pop-up window, select the report and click Ok.

pickReport

 

Now that a report has been selected, the output options can be changed.

In the Properties Panel, in the Behavior section, in the View Mode list, select Blurb.

selectBlurbViewMode

 

The page is now complete.  Save it and close the Page Designer.

To view the report, click on the page’s thumbnail and select View > Preview Page from its Action menu.

 previewPage

The report opens in a new window and displays Blurb summaries of the data.

 blurbPreview

 To set the output options to Text, close the report, click the Edit link on the page’s thumbnail.

 editPage

In the Page Designer, in the Properties Panel, in the Behavior section, in the View Mode list select Text.

 selectTextView

Save the page and close the Page Designer.

To view the report, click on the page’s thumbnail and select View > Preview Page from its Action menu.

previewPage2 

The report opens in a new window and displays Text summaries of the data.

textModeResult 

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