BI Composer wizard -- Create Analysis: Select Views panel

Components

Title

Use this field to enter the title for the analysis.

Table

Use this box to select the type of tabular view to include in the analysis:

• None — Use this option to specify no tabular view.

• Table (recommended) — Use this option to specify a table. (This is the recommended table type for nonhierarchical data).

• Summary Table — Use this option to specify a table that also includes summaries of the data (for example, grand totals).

• Pivot — Use this option to specify a pivot table (recommended for hierarchical data).

• Summary Pivot — Use this option to specify a pivot table that also includes summaries of the data (for example, grand totals).

Graph

Use this box to select the type of graph view to include in the analysis:

• None — Use this option to specify no graph view.

• Bar (recommended) — Use this option to specify a bar graph. (This is the recommended graph type by default.)

• Area — Use this option to specify an area graph.

• Scatter — Use this option to specify a scatter graph.

• Pie — Use this option to specify a pie graph.

• Line-Bar — Use this option to specify a line-bar graph.

Layout

Use this box to select the placement of the tabular and graph views in the analysis. The options are:

• Table above Graph

• Table below Graph

• Table to left of Graph

• Table to right of Graph

Preview

Use this box to specify whether to display a preview of the results:

• Select this box to display a preview of the actual analysis and data.

  
  

  Note: Selecting this box might impact performance if the query for data results in very large data sets.

  
  

• Deselect this box to display an image that represents each view in the analysis.

Show how results will look on a dashboard

Use this button to show a fully interactive view where you can page through large result sets, drill, and so on.

Report XML

Use this button to show the XML code for the analysis. This information is helpful for debugging purposes.