Example of Creating, Positioning and Formatting Data Area

To create a data area:

  1. On the Data Sources and Data Slices panel select the required slice and drag it to the report sheet.

  2. In the Data Area Properties dialog box on the Parameters tab set the following values:

When these operations are executed, the Parameters page looks as follows:

  1. The next step is defining parameters for data filtering. Define filters for rows and columns on the Filtering tab:

After executing these operations the Filtering tab looks as follows:

The example of data area without filtering:

After filtering application, data area looks as follows:

  1. Do not change parameters on the Sorting tab.

  2. On the Layout > Rows tab select the checkboxes:

After these checkboxes are selected, the Layout tab looks as follows:

  1. Set up totals by rows on the Totals tab:

After these parameters are set, the Totals > Rows tab looks as follows:

To set formatting for the totals cells, click the button to open the Cell Format dialog box.

  1. Determine data area formatting on the Formatting tab:

  1. Refresh the report. After the report is refreshed, the data area looks as follows:

Press CTRL + F9 to start report calculation and open the report in the view mode after calculation is completed.

See also:

Data Area Properties