Add View Element dialog

This dialog appears when you click Insert > Group/Aggregation/Detail, or click the Insert Group button , Insert Aggregation button or Insert Detail button in the Business View Editor, or right-click the business view, or a category in the editor and select Add View Element from the shortcut menu. It helps you to add a new view element into a business view, and consists of the following tabs:

• General tab
• Security tab

OK

Applies all changes and closes the dialog.

Cancel

Does not retain changes and closes the dialog.

Help

Displays this help document.

General tab

Specifies properties of the view element. See the dialog.

Display Name

Specifies the display name of the view element which is intuitive to the end user.

Mapping Name

Specifies the mapping name of the field to which the view element is mapped. Click to select the field.

Type

Specifies the type of the view element.

• Group
  Group objects are the view elements that will become the basis for analyzing data in a report. They characteristically return text data or dates. For example they may return items like country, state and year to use for grouping data in reports.
• Aggregation
  Aggregation objects are numeric view elements that are calculated at the time the report runs. The values they return are dependent on the group objects which they are used with. For example you may want a sales total by year.
• Detail
  Detail objects provide additional information. They can be bound to group, aggregation, or category elements. Detail objects are not used for analysis but are useful in tables to show detail information such as addresses and phone numbers.

Aggregate Function

Available only when the type of the view element is defined as aggregation. It specifies the function for the aggregation object. For details about each function, see Math functions.

Tip

Specifies the tooltip of the view element which will be shown when you hover the mouse pointer over the element in the Resources panel of Web Report Studio.

Description

Specifies the description of the view element.

Security tab

Specifies user accessibility to members of the group objects in all the business views in current data source. See the tab.

For details about options in the tab, refer to Edit Business View Security dialog.

Related topics:

• Business view elements
• Adding/Editing elements