Working with metrics in documents

This section assumes that you understand the concepts of metrics, levels of calculation on reports, and how calculation works on various document sections. For background information on metrics and reports, see the Advanced Reporting Guide. For background information on document sections, see Understanding and working with document sections.

This section describes how metrics are calculated based on their location in the document. It also provides steps to add a metric to a document or create a new metric based on existing metrics in the document.

The level of calculation for metrics depends on their location in the document. This allows you to create metric totals in documents, such as a grand total or a group total. This section describes how metrics are calculated based on their location in the document; for details, see Metric calculation in document sections.

For a description of the different types of metrics that you can create in a document and steps to create them, see Creating metrics in documents.