Adding Text and Data to Documents

After you create a new document, you specify the data that appears and control the layout, formatting, grouping, and subtotaling of data. In addition, you can insert pictures and draw borders in the document. All of these capabilities provide for documents that are suitable for presentation to management for printing boardroom quality material. They are used to create the highest-quality, Pixel Perfect™ documents such as scorecards and dashboards, managed metrics documents, production and operational documents, and more.

This chapter contains examples of the different kinds of objects that you can add to a document, with steps to create them.

• Using datasets in documents

• Adding text and data to a document: Text fields

• Displaying document and dataset information: Auto text codes

• Working with metrics in documents

• Displaying real-time web and other HTML content: HTML containers

• Adding shapes and lines to a document

• Inserting images in a document

• Arranging controls on a document