Siebel Actuate Reporting Questions Answers.
What is Structure Pane ?- Shows relationship among components in the Actuate e.Report Designer Professional.
- Displays most components used in the report design
- Components are placed into available placeholders called slots
- A slot is a visual target that indicates an available place for a component
- Provides a canvas to work with the appearance and layout of components in the Actuate e.Report Designer Professional.
- Displays components visible in the finished report , such as frames and controls
Allows the viewing and modification of a component’s properties , methods , variables ,
and class information
What is Section component ?
- Determines the logical structure of the report
- Acts as a container for other components
- Receives incoming data rows and creates appropriate output for a report
- Appears as a set of icons in the Structure pane
- Contains slots.
- Is the design of the report
- Retrieves information from a data source and contains components to display that information
- Present in the all Siebel reports
- Contains the following slots
- Connection, DataStream, Before, PageHeader, Content, PageFooter, After, Subpage
- Is used to create grouped data reports
- Groups data on a common field
- Has a key property that specifies the field on which to group the records. For example:-Customers grouped by state ; state is the common field and set as the key property
- Contains the same slots as the report section with the exception if the Datastream slot.
- Contains several frames , subreports , or other sections that display or print in a specified order. For example , print two related reports , such as sales history and staffing history, one after the other
- Contains the following slots
- ->Connection : not used in Siebel reports
- ->Content :displays the information and its layout
- ->Contains one or more frames or sections
- ->Each content slot prints in its entirety before the next Content slot begins
- ->Subpage : page layout to the sequential section ; defines the layout for just that
- section ; defines the layout for just that section
- Determines the page layout of the report
- Contains fixed information as well as areas for the run-time data (referred to as flows)
- Present in all Siebel reports
- Siebel reports use only one page style in each report
- Is a rectangular container for displaying information. For example :- text controls , label controls , or images
- Must exist before controls are inserted
- Can be used to manipulate controls as a group by placing a set of related controls in a
- frame
- A report is a collection of frames and controls
- Displays all the information within a report
- Displays data , performs an action , or makes the report easier to read
- Is a chart or graph , image , text , or other element that can be placed in a frame
- Types:-
- ->Text(data) controls associate with one or more variables from run-time data ;
- referred to as dynamic controls
- ->Other controls are sometimes referred to as static controls
- ->Label control
- ->Line control
- Is a prebuilt integration with the Actuate e.Reporting Server with data access from the Siebel Object Manager
- Generates reports , manages report documents , and provides access top reports via a supported Web browser
- Contains the Report Encyclopedia. Contains report items , access privileges , and request queues
- Secures scheduling and distribution of reports
- Hosts report executables.
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