Using the Text Output and Blurb Report Viewers

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

Blurb and text summaries present information about report data in a short format.  The Blurb Report Viewer and the Text Output Report Viewer display these summaries on a report.  The report must already have blurb and test summaries defined for these summaries to display in the viewers.

Add these components in the Page Designer, in the Toolbox Panel.  From the Reports category, drag a Blurb Report Viewer or a Text Output Report Viewer component to the workspace.

Example

The goal of this example is to:

  1. Create a portal page.
  2. Add a Blurb Report Viewer to it. 
  3. View the blurb summaries for the report. 
  4. Add a Text Output Report Viewer to it.
  5. View the text summaries for the report.

To begin, navigate to a Design Folder and click the Create Page/Dashboard button.

createPage                       

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

namePage

 

In the Toolbox Panel, expand the Reports category and drag a Blurb Report Viewer component to the workspace.

dragBlurbReportViewer

 

Select the report that contains blurb summaries that will open in the Blurb Report Viewer.

In the Properties Panel, click the Default Report Selector.

 clickDefaultReportSelector

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

pickReport

 

This completes the page.  Save it and close the Page Designer.

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

previewPage

 

The page opens, with the default reports blurb summaries in the Blurb Report Viewer.

blurbPreview 

Close the page.

To add a Text Output Report Viewer to the page, click the report’s thumbnail and select the Edit link.

 editPage

First, remove the Blurb Report Viewer by selecting it in the workspace and selecting Delete from the Action menu.

deleteBlurbReportViewer

 

To add the Text Output Report Viewer, in the Toolbox Panel, expand the Reports category and drag a Text Output Report Viewer component to the workspace.

dragTextOutputReportViewer

 

Set the default report with text summaries to display in the viewer.

In the Properties Panel, in the Behavior section, click the Default Report selector.

 clickDefaultReportSelector

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

pickReport

 

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

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

previewPage2

 

The report opens and displays text output summaries about report data.

textModeResult

 

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