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Adhoc Reports Annotation

  • Annotations are critical or explanatory notes added to a text, image or other data. They are references that point to the specific part of data. Annotations enable users to add shapes and text to make information more meaningful to the business.

Objective​

  • Create Adhoc Report using Annotation

Adhoc Report - Annotation: This video contains information regarding How to Create Adhoc Report using Annotation in OPNBI.

Steps to Create Adhoc Report using Annotation​

  1. Login to OPNBI using your credentials.

  2. Go to Hamburger Docusaurus Slash Introduction icon > Documents > Adhoc Report

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  3. There are two ways in which a user can Create Adhoc Report.

I. Clicking on Adhoc Report located at the bottom-most toolbar.

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II. By right-clicking the any existing user can also create Adhoc Report.

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  1. On clicking the Create Adhoc option, from one of the methods mentioned above user will see the window as below:

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  2. Drag & Drop Annotation component to the empty area as shown below:

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  3. As user perform the above step, window will look as per the image below:

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  4. Click on Annotation Docusaurus Slash Introduction icon from the top right corner as shown in the image above.

  5. As you click on Annotation icon, one dialog box will shown as below:

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  6. Fill the details as below:

  • Select Annotation Group: my name is OPNBIhub
  • Select Item: key-OPNBI-1-(2021-10-21-10-24)

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Note

  1. Click on Submit button & your screen will look as per below:

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  2. Select LANDSCAPE VIEW from the Birt Template drop-down as shown.

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  3. You can also specify the number of records you want to show on a page from the following widget near the template selector widget:-

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  4. User can select format in which they want to run the report from the drop-down near to RUN option.

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  5. For this example, we select Run as PDF.

  6. To run the Adhoc Report using Table Component, click on Run in the top most right corner as follows:-

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  7. Click on RUN option, which will open the following dialog box:-

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  8. As the table has no parameters, just click on SEND button & it will redirect you to another screen of the browser.

  9. The Adhoc Report using Annotation component will be generated in PDF.

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  10. If you want to save your report you can click on the Save Docusaurus Slash Introduction button at the topmost right corner below admin which will open the following dialog box:-

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  1. You can give your own Name in the selected column, and select Save As a Report / Template.

  2. For this example; give Name: Adhoc Annotation & Select Save As: Report and click on submit button to perform the save operation.

  3. If you want to change the settings of a widget click on Docusaurus Slash Introduction below Run which will open the following dialog box:-

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  4. Here you can change the Name, Width, Height, Visibility and Page Break of your table & click on Submit button to save the changes.

  5. Similarly press Docusaurus Slash Introduction in order to delete the annotation widget.

    To know more abour Adhoc Reports features follow below Links:-

Chart​

Table​

Image​

Annotations​

Text​

Pivot​

Report​

Predefined Component​