Sections, breaks and cells
- A report formatted with breaks and sections may break across pages.
- You may want to insert extra cells, to include header information for example.
- Therefore it is good to have an understanding of how pages are structured and formatted in Business Objects.
Video
Watch the following videos to explore the options described above:
Cloze Activity
Read the paragraph below and fill in the missing words.
To view the page structure of a report, click on
in the
menu.
Multi-choiceBefore you can add text to a header or footer, you need to:
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Open the Slice and Dice panel.
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Insert a Special Field.
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Insert a new cell.
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Multi-select
Choosing the Format-Breaks option enables you to do the following (tick all that apply):
Keep each break section of a table on the same page.
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Display each part of a table created by a break on a separate page.
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Repeat the header on each new page.
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Activity
- Practice inserting a cell in the header of your own report, and then format this cell.
- Insert a break in your report.
- Click the item of data where you applied the break and then practice with the Format-Breaks option.
Use the menu on the left to navigate your way to the next page.