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2 Learn more about the concepts, structure & hierarchy of a Pages report to help you better understand the process of designing, creating, and managing your reports.
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4 CX Air’s Pages app allows you to create digital versions of physical, paper-copy dashboard reports. As such, many of the concepts used by Pages will be familiar to anyone who’s created a physical report – multiple pages containing data tables, charts & traffic lighted gauges. However, as a web-app, Pages also allows you to access to CX Air’s full reporting and analytics power, giving you great scope to select what and how data is displayed, and report users the power interrogate the data as they need.
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8 == (% style="font-family:~"Arial Nova~",sans-serif; font-size:16pt; line-height:107%" %)**Pages Report Hierarchy**(%%) ==
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10 CX Air’s Pages reports are organised in a hierarchy:
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12 * Report
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14 ** Pages
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16 *** Layers
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18 **** Components
19 **** Tiles
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21 This hierarchy reflects the order in which you should design, then build, your Pages reports.
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24 === Report ===
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26 The Report level allows you to set report-wide options including the report’s page size (this is useful if you plan to print physical copies of the report), whether headers & footers are included on every page of your report, and whether all the data in report is loaded at once.
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30 **Note:** Report-wide settings can also be configured in your personal preferences. Anything set in your personal preferences will become the default for a new Pages Report but can be overridden in a report’s configuration options.
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35 === Pages ===
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37 A //Page// in a Pages report is the digital equivalent of a page of a physical report.
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39 On that physical report, each page would likely share tabular data, graphs and gauges that are somehow related. The same is true for a //Page// in a Pages report.
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41 By adding multiple Pages to a Pages report you can both organise the contents of each individual Page – displaying related information on the same page – and prioritise that content by specifying the order in which it’s presented to the report’s users.
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43 At the Page level, you can set //the orientation// of the page (useful when the report is likely to be printed), and //the frequency// with which the data on the page is refreshed (useful when the report is permanently displayed or is based on frequently updated data sources).
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45 [HYPER] [[Learn more about Pages>>doc:.01\. About Pages.WebHome]] >
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48 === Layers ===
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50 Layers add a third dimension to your Pages report – giving you control over the order in which report components are ‘stacked’ vertically.
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52 Think of layers as separate panes of glass, stacked one on top of the other. Each layer is transparent until you add components to it. The components on the top-most layer, will cover those on the layers below.
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54 This allows you to **decide how components overlay each other** – this is particularly useful when adding design elements (for example, background images or headers & footers) to a Pages report over which you can then place reporting elements.
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56 Layers also allows you to **add drill-through functionality to a Pages report** by ‘hiding’ all but the top layer. By configuring the drill option on Crosstabs, Charts, Gauges and Text elements, you can pass the context of the drill from one layer to the next.
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58 [HYPER] [[Learn more about using Layers>>doc:.02\. About Layers.WebHome]] >
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61 === Components ===
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63 Components are the data tables, charts and gauges and other visual display elements used to present information in your reports.
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65 You can add as many components as required to a Pages report.
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67 [HYPER] [[Learn more about using Components>>doc:.04\. About Components.WebHome]] >
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70 === Tiles ===
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72 Tiles allow you add a carousel section to your Pages report, through which report users can navigate.
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74 This enables you to make better use of the available space in a report – by stacking multiple components in the same place – but also allows you to build in sophisticated drill functionality between related components that, unlike Layers, does not affect the data displayed in other components on the page.
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76 We call these Tile Stacks.
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78 [HYPER] [[Learn more about using Tiles>>doc:.About Tiles.WebHome]] >