## Table Wizard for page report

This wizard appears when you select a table layout in the New Page Report Tab dialog or New Page Report dialog and then click OK, or right-click a table and click Table Wizard on the shortcut menu. It helps you to create or modify a table in a page report.

The wizard consists of the following screens:

- Data screen
- Display screen
- Group screen
- Summary screen
- Chart screen
- Filter screen
- Style screen

Back

Goes back to the previous screen.

Next

Goes to the next screen.

Finish

Finishes creating or modifying the table and closes this wizard.

Cancel

Does not retain changes and closes this wizard.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.

### Data screen

Specifies the dataset for the table. See the screen.

Define a dataset for the object

Specifies the dataset you want to use to create or edit the table.

- New
  If checked, select a data source from the catalog resources to create a dataset that will be used to build the table. When you choose to create the dataset from a query, you can click the Modify button to edit the query in the Query Editor if required.
- Existing
  If checked, select a dataset from the ones existing in the open report to create the table. Click the Modify button to edit the dataset in the Dataset Editor if required.
- Current
  If checked, the current dataset used by the parent object will be applied to the table.

### Display screen

Specifies the data fields to display in the table. See the screen.

Resources

Lists all the available data resources.

Adds the specified field to use in the table.

Removes the specified field that is not required in the table.

Replaces the selected field in the table with the specified field in the Resources box.

Moves the specified field one step up.

Moves the specified field one step down.

Show Table Group Structure

Specifies whether to show the group structure of the table.

Display Fields

Lists the fields that you have selected to display in the table.

Display Name

Shows the display names of the selected fields. You can double-click the name cells to edit them if required.

Sort Fields By

Opens the Sort Fields By dialog to specify how to sort data in the table.

### Group screen

Specifies the fields that you want to use to group the data. See the screen.

Resources

Lists all the available data resources.

Adds the selected field as the group by field in the table.

Removes the selected group by field that is not required.

Replaces the selected group by field in the table with the specified field in the Resources box.

Moves the specified group one step up.

Moves the specified group one step down.

Group By

Lists the fields that are used to group data in the table.

Sort

Specifies how groups at the specific group level will be sorted.

- Ascend
  Groups will be sorted in an ascending order (A, B, C).
- Descend
  Groups will be sorted in a descending order (C, B, A).
- No Sort
  Groups will be sorted in the original order in database.
- Special Group
  Opens the User Defined Group dialog to define grouping information.

  For example, if you placed a field named Region for grouping, and this field contains all 50 states of the United States; and if you want to see the data between Maryland (MD) and New York (NY), you can define the criteria by selecting the between operator to further define your grouping information.

- Custom Sort
  Opens the Custom Sort dialog to set how groups will be sorted.

Special Function

If the group by field is of Numeric/String/Date/Time type, you can select a special function for the field in the Special Function column to further specify to which level the data will be grouped by.

If Customize is selected, the Customized Function dialog will be displayed, in which you can set the function by your own.

Custom Sort

Specifies how to sort the groups. Activated only when you have clicked Custom Sort from the Sort column to define the sorting manner of groups for the selected group level.

Special Group

Specifies how to group your information. Activated only when you have clicked Special Group from the Sort column to define a special group.

Select N

Opens the Select N dialog to specify the Select N condition.

Group Filter

Opens the Group Filter dialog to specify the group filter condition.

### Summary screen

Specifies the fields on which to create aggregate functions. This screen is available only when you create a table. See the screen.

Resources

Lists all the available data resources.

Adds the selected field as the summary field to the table.

Removes the selected summary field that is not required.

Moves the specified summary field one step up.

Moves the specified summary field one step down.

Summarized Fields

Lists all the fields that you want to display and to be summarized in the table.

Aggregate Function

Specifies the function to summarize the selected field.

Break Field

Displays a defined field on which the summary will be calculated. If a summary field is added below the Table node, the break field is null and the summary will be calculated on the whole dataset.

Position

Works together with the Column option to specify the location where the summary field will be put.

- Header
  Specifies to put the summary field in the header row. If the summary is calculated on a group by field, it will be put in the group header row of the corresponding group; if the summary is calculated on the whole dataset, it will be put in the table header row.
- Footer
  Specifies to put the summary field in the footer row. If the summary is calculated on a group by field, it will be put in the group footer row of the corresponding group; if the summary is calculated on the whole dataset, it will be put in the table footer row.

Column

Works together with the Position option to specify the location where the summary field will be put.

- Detail
  The summary field will be put in a detail column.
- Summary
  The summary field will be displayed in a separate summary column.

### Chart screen

Specifies to create a chart together with the table, which will be placed above the table in the report body. This screen is available only when you create a table in a page report, and when there is at least one group by field and one summary field which is calculated on this group by field in the table. See the screen.

No Chart

Specifies not to create a chart.

Bar Chart

Specifies to create a Clustered Bar 2-D chart together with the table.

Line Chart

Specifies to create a Line 2-D chart together with the table.

Pie Chart

Specifies to create a Clustered Pie chart together with the table.

Category

Lists the group by fields of the table on which the summary fields are calculated. Choose the field you want to display on the category (X) axis of the chart from the drop-down list.

Series

Lists the fields that have been added as the group by fields of the table. Choose the field you want to display on the series (Z) axis of the chart from the drop-down list.

Show Values

Lists the summary fields which are calculated based on the field you choose to display on the category axis of the chart. Choose the value you want to display in the chart from the drop-down list.

### Filter screen

Specifies to filter data displayed in the table. This screen is available only when you create a table. See the screen.

For details about options in the screen, see Edit Filter dialog.

### Style screen

Specifies the style of the table. See the screen.

Grow Report

Specifies the layout of the table.

- Vertically
  Creates a vertical table.
- Horizontally
  Creates a horizontal table.

Style

Lists the available styles.

- <Custom>
  There is no any style information on it and it is only used to cover previous-version report which did not bind any style or the bound style cannot be found in the style list.

Preview

Displays a diagram illustrating the effect of the selected style on the table.

Inherit Style

Specifies whether to make the table take the style of its parent. This option is available only when you modify a table and the table is inserted into a banded object.

Page Setup

Opens the Page Setup dialog to specify the page settings. Available only when creating a page report.

###### Related topics:

- Creating a table report
- Modifying a table