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To Crosstab Dialog Box Properties

This topic describes how you can use the To Crosstab dialog box to specify settings for converting a chart into a crosstab. Server displays the dialog box when you right-click a chart and then select To Crosstab on the shortcut menu or select Menu > Edit > To Crosstab.

Title

Specifies a title for the crosstab.

Specifies the font properties of the chart title. After you select the button, Server displays the following dialog box for you to edit the font properties:

• Font
  Select the font face of the title.
• Font Style
  Select the font style of the title: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic.
• Size
  Specify the font size of the title.
• Align
  Specify the position of the title to be left, right, center, or justify.
• Font Color
  Specify the font color of the title.

  To change the color, select the color indicator. Server displays the color palette. Select a color, or select More Colors to access the Color Picker dialog box in which you can specify a color within a wider range. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value to specify a color, for example, #9933ff.

• Background Color
  Specify the background color of the title.
• OK
  Select to apply any changes you made here and exit the dialog box.
• Cancel
  Select to close the dialog box without saving any changes.

Resources

Displays all the view elements used in the chart.

Sort button

Select an order for sorting the resources in the business view. The order applies to all the resource trees where you see the business view.

The order can be one of the following:

• Predefined Order
  Select if you want to sort the resources in the order as in the Business View Editor of Designer.
• Resource Types
  Select if you want to sort the resources by the resource type. Namely, category objects come first, then group objects, then aggregation objects, and at last detail objects.
• Alphabetical Order
  Select if you want to sort the resources in alphabetical order. Logi Report sorts the resources that are not in any category first, and then the categories. It also sorts the resources in each category alphabetically.

Search button

Select to launch the search bar to search for view elements.

See the following properties in the search bar:

• Text box
  Type the text you want to search in the text box. Server lists the values that contain the matched text.
• Close button
  Select to close the search bar.
• More Options button
  Select the button and Server displays more search options.
  • Highlight All
    Select if you want to highlight all matched text.
  • Match Case
    Select if you want to search for text that meets the case of the typed text.
  • Match Whole Word
    Select if you want to search for text that looks the same as the typed text.
• Previous button
  Select to go to the previous matched text when you have selected Highlight All.
• Next button
  Select to go to the next matched text when you have selected Highlight All.

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 text of the labels for the column/row headers. You can select a text box to edit the label, or select the Auto Map Field Name checkbox beside the text box to automatically map the label to the dynamic display name of the object.
• 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 text of the labels for the summaries. You can select a text box to edit the label, or select the Auto Map Field Name checkbox beside the text box to automatically map the label to the dynamic display name of the object.
• Aggregate
  Specifies the functions used to summarize data of the detail objects.
• Distinct On
  Server enables this property when you select DistinctSum as the aggregate function, and you should set it. Select the ellipsis button , and then in the Select Fields dialog box select the fields according to whose unique values you want to calculate the DistinctSum function.
• Comparison Function
  Opens the Comparison Function dialog box to add a comparison function as an aggregate for the crosstab.

Move Up button

Select to move the selected item higher in the list.

Move Down button

Select to move the selected item lower in the list.

Removes the selected view element.

OK

Applies the settings and closes the dialog box.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes the dialog box.

Displays the help document about this feature.

Ignores the setting and closes this dialog box.

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