## Edit View Element dialog

This dialog appears when you right-click any view element of a business view and select Edit from the shortcut menu in the Catalog Browser. It helps you to edit the specified view element, and consists of the following tabs:

- General tab
- Security tab

OK

Applies all changes and closes the dialog.

Cancel

Does not retain changes and closes the dialog.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.

### General tab

Sets properties for the view element. See the dialog.

Display Name

Specifies the display name of the view element which is intuitive to the end user.

Mapping Name

Specifies the mapping name of the field to which the view element is mapped. Click to select the field.

Type

Specifies the type of the view element.

- Group
  Group objects are the view elements that will become the basis for analyzing data in a report. They characteristically return text data or dates. For example they may return items like country, state and year to use for grouping data in reports.
- Aggregation
  Aggregation objects are numeric view elements that are calculated at the time the report runs. The values they return are dependent on the group objects which they are used with. For example you may want a sales total by year.
- Detail
  Detail objects provide additional information. They can be bound to group, aggregation, or category elements. Detail objects are not used for analysis but are useful in tables to show detail information such as addresses and phone numbers.

Aggregate Function

Available only when the view element is an aggregation. It specifies the function for the aggregation object. For details about each function, see Math functions.

Customized

Available only when the type of the view element is defined as Aggregation. If checked, you can create a custom aggregation by writing a formula.

- Settings
  Opens the Formula Editor dialog to compose a formula using resources in the current business view, which can return an aggregation.

Tip

Specifies the tooltip of the view element which will be shown when you hover the mouse pointer over the element in the Resources panel of Web Report Studio or the Resource View panel of Page Report Studio.

Description

Specifies the description of the view element.

### Security tab

Specifies user accessibility to members of the group objects in all the business views in current data source. See the tab.

For details about options in the tab, refer to Edit Business View Security dialog.

###### Related topics:

- Business view elements
- Adding/Editing elements