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Report Details Properties: General tab

The General tab of the Report Details Properties dialog box contains configuration options for the prompt, report, and filter details. The dialog box contains the following sections:

By default, each setting on this tab inherits the project setting, as described in Configuring report details. You can return to this default by selecting <default> from the drop-down list for the specific setting. The default setting is displayed, such as <default> (No).

Interaction of report details preferences and report details for reports

The report details preferences specified in the Developer Preferences dialog box specify which types of report details are displayed. These preferences overwrite some of the report details that are configured in the Report Details Properties dialog box in the Project Configuration Editor and the Report Editor. For example, you choose prompt details as a report details preference. When you open a prompted report, the name of each prompt and its prompt answers are displayed in the Report Details pane. You cannot remove the prompt details display from that report, unless you remove prompt details as a report details preference. In the report itself, however, you can configure how the prompt details are displayed, such as whether the title of the prompt is displayed.

The report details preferences specify whether the following types of report details are displayed:

  • Report description

  • Prompt details

  • Filter details

  • Metric/template details

You can change this behavior by disabling the report details preferences, which allows the report details properties to be used instead. You can disable the report details preferences when you save changes to the report details properties (as described in Configuring report details overview) or by using the Developer Preferences dialog box (for instructions, see Disabling report details preferences). For more information about the report details preferences in general, and how to set them, see Enabling and customizing report details preferences.

Report Details

The Report Details include the report description, prompt details, filter details, and template details, but you can choose whether to include or omit any of these parts.

Select whether to include, omit, or use the inherited setting of the:

  • Report Description (the short description of the report)

  • Prompt Details (the prompts on the report)

  • Filter Details (the report filter, view filter, and report limits)

  • Template Details (the objects on the report and the metric definitions)

Prompt Details

The Prompt Details display the prompt information for all prompts in the report. The settings for prompt details include:

  • Include Prompt Titles: The prompt title is defined when the prompt is created and the index is a number indicating the order of the prompts in the report. To display them, select Title and Index. To omit them, select No Title or Index.

  • Replacement String for Unanswered Prompts: You can specify the text to display when a prompt is unanswered. The options are:

    • Display nothing

    • Display "Prompt Not Answered"

    • Display "No Selection"

    • Display "All/None"

      Whether the word "All" or "None" displays depends on the type of prompt. For example, an unanswered object prompt displays as "None", because no objects are selected. An unanswered filter definition prompt displays as "All" because the report is not filtered and therefore all the objects appear on the report.

  • Show Attribute Name for Attribute Element Prompts: You can specify whether and how to display the attribute name for attribute element list prompts in the report. The options are:

    • Yes to show the attribute names.

    • No to omit the attribute names.

    • Repeated to repeat the attribute name for each prompt answer.

  • Include Unused Prompts: You can specify whether to include unused prompts. An unused prompt occurs when you drill on a report that contains a prompt. The resulting child report can display or omit the prompt details from the parent.

Miscellaneous

  • Use delimiters around report object names: You can specify whether delimiters are used in details that display report objects, such as attributes and metrics. Delimiters are the characters around these report objects, which set them off from other text. Braces (that is, {}) are used as delimiters. This property is used in the Template Details, Prompt Details, and Filter Details. The options are:

    • No to omit delimiters for all report objects.

    • Yes to display delimiters for all report objects.

    • Automatic to display delimiters only for those report objects that contain a special character. Special characters are characters other than a - z, A - Z, 0 - 9, #, _, and . (period).

  • Use aliases in Filter Details: Since an alias does not change the name of the object, only the name displayed on the report, filters use the name of the object, not the alias. You can determine whether to display aliases or object names in Filter Details.

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