Understanding the parts of a report is essential as you plan and design your own reports.
A typical report is composed of the following parts:
Page Headings list dimensions represented on the current page. All data values on the page have the dimensions in the page heading as a common property.
<PAGE (Market, Measures)
Column Headings list members across a page. You can define columns that report on data from multiple dimensions, which results in nested column headings.
<COLUMN (Year, Scenario)
Row Headings list members down a page. You can define a member list that includes rows from multiple levels within a dimension or from multiple dimensions. The rows are indented below the dimension name.
<ROW (Product)
Titles contain user-defined text, date and time stamp, the user name of the person running the report, page numbers, the name of the source database, or any other descriptive information. Titles are user-generated and optional. Page, column, and row headings are automatically generated, because they are necessary to clearly describe the data on the report page.
{ STARTHEADING TEXT 1 "Prepared by:" 14 "*USERNAME" C "The Electronics Club" 65 "*PAGESTRING" TEXT 65 "*DATE" SKIP ENDHEADING }
Data values are the values contained in the database cells; they are the lookup results of member combinations or the results of calculations when the report is run through the Report Extractor. Each data value is the combination of the members in the page heading, column heading, and row name.
All data values in a row share the properties of the row names of that row. A report can have zero or more row name dimensions, each of which produces column of row names, with the innermost row name column cycling the fastest.