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To Crosstab

This dialog appears when you right-click a chart and then select To Crosstab on the shortcut menu or click Menu > Edit > To Crosstab. It allows you to specify settings for converting a chart into a crosstab.

Title

Specifies a title for the crosstab.

Specifies the font properties of the chart title.

• Font
  Lists all the available font faces that can be selected to apply to the title.
• Font Style
  Specifies the font style of the title. It can be one of the following: plain, bold, italic, and bold italic.
• Size
  Specifies the font size of the title.
• Align
  Specifies the position of the title to be left, right, center or justify.
• Font Color
  Specifies the font color of the title.
• Background Color
  Specifies the background color of the title.

Resources

Displays all the view elements used in the chart.

Sorts the view elements in the specified order from the drop-down list. Once a user changes the order, it will be applied to all the resource trees where business view elements are listed for this user.

• Predefined Order
  Sorts the view elements in the order defined in the Business View Editor on JReport Designer.
• Resource Types
  Sorts the view elements by resource type, namely category objects come first, then group objects, then aggregation objects, and at last detail objects.
• Alphabetical Order
  Sorts the view elements in alphabetical order. Elements that are not in any category will be sorted first, then the categories, and the elements in each category will also be sorted alphabetically.

Launches the quick search toolbar to search for view elements. For the usage of the toolbar click here.

Adds the selected group object to be displayed in the columns of the crosstab.

Adds the selected group object to be displayed in the rows of the crosstab.

Adds the selected aggregation object to be the summary field of the crosstab.

Columns/Rows

Lists the group objects that will be displayed on the columns/rows of the crosstab.

• Field
  Lists the group objects that you selected to display in the crosstab.
• Label
  Specifies the display names of the added group objects. You can click in the cells to edit them if required.
• Sort
  Specifies how the selected group objects will be sorted.

Summaries

Lists the aggregation/detail objects that will be the summary fields of the crosstab.

• Field
  Lists the aggregation/detail objects that you selected to display in the crosstab.
• Label
  Specifies the display names of the objects. You can click in the cells to edit them if required.
• Aggregation
  Specifies the functions used to summarize data of the detail objects.
• Comparison Function
  Opens the Comparison Function dialog to add a comparison function as an aggregate for the crosstab.

Moves the selected view element one level up.

Moves the selected view element one level down.

Removes the selected view element.

OK

Applies the settings and closes the dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes the dialog.

Displays the help document about this feature.

Ignores the setting and closes this dialog.

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