Adhoc Reports Text
- To add text to your Ad-hoc report you can insert text below another widget like table.
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- Create Adhoc Report using Text
Adhoc Report - Text: This video contains information regarding How to Create Adhoc Report using Text in OPNBI.
Steps to Create Adhoc Report using Text
Login to OPNBI using your credentials.
Go to Hamburger icon > Documents > Adhoc Report
There are two ways in which a user can Create Adhoc Report.
I. Clicking on Adhoc Report located at the bottom-most toolbar.
II. By right-clicking the any existing user can also create Adhoc Report.
On clicking the Create Adhoc option, from one of the methods mentioned above user will see the window as below:
Drag & Drop Text component to the empty area as shown below:
As user perform the above step, window will look as per the image below:
Now you can insert text in the empty area and perform formatting.
For this example; we will wright Welcome user & make it italic, bold, undelined, highlight & strikethrough.
User can also add the link by clicking on icon right before image icon.
Perform above formatting properties & your screen will look as per the image below:
You can also insert an image or by clicking on icon & can insert a formula in your report by clicking on icon if required.
Select LANDSCAPE VIEW from the Birt Template drop-down as shown.
You can also specify the number of records you want to show on a page from the following widget near the template selector widget:-
User can select format in which they want to run the report from the drop-down near to RUN option.
For this example, we select Run as PDF.
To run the Adhoc Report using Table Component, click on Run in the top most right corner as follows:-
Click on RUN option, which will open the following dialog box:-
As the table has no parameters, just click on SEND button & it will redirect you to another screen of the browser.
The Adhoc Report using Text component will be generated in PDF.
If you want to save your report you can click on the Save button at the topmost right corner below admin which will open the following dialog box:-
You can give your own Name in the selected column, and select Save As a Report / Template.
For this example; give Name: Adhoc Text & Select Save As: Report and click on submit button to perform the save operation.
If you want to change the settings of a widget click on below Run which will open the following dialog box:-
Here you can change the Name, Width, Height, Visibility and Page Break of your table & click on Submit button to save the changes.
Similarly press in order to delete the text widget.
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