Report Studio : Practical Usage for Sectioning
Most often you would have used Sectioning for formatting reasons. Here's how you could use Sectioning, Page-break concepts to make a single list report work like 2 lists.
Requirement: Display Data for Current Year and Previous Year as 2 separate lists on 2 separate pages.
Normally you would have used 2 separate queries for the 2 list reports. Using Sectioning and Page-Break you can use a single query to achieve this. You can use this method when you need to display multiple lists that differ in terms of filters alone.
Solution:
Step 1: Drag Product, Sales, Year in to the report
Step 2: Create a filter to filter the data for current and previous year.
Step 3: Create a data item called Section Title.
Step 4: Section on the Section Title data item
Step 5: Create a page break on Section Title data item.
Requirement: Display Data for Current Year and Previous Year as 2 separate lists on 2 separate pages.
Normally you would have used 2 separate queries for the 2 list reports. Using Sectioning and Page-Break you can use a single query to achieve this. You can use this method when you need to display multiple lists that differ in terms of filters alone.
Solution:
Step 1: Drag Product, Sales, Year in to the report
Step 2: Create a filter to filter the data for current and previous year.
Step 3: Create a data item called Section Title.
case when [YEAR] = extract(year from current_date)
then 'Current Year'
else 'Previous Year'
end
Step 4: Section on the Section Title data item
Step 5: Create a page break on Section Title data item.
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