Desktop Development


Video: How to Use the Metadata Canvas

The goal of this video is to introduce the Metadata canvas. 

You can use the Metadata canvas to view or edit a data view that everyone can use over and over. 

Video: How to Configure and Use Traffic Lights

Hello, and welcome to this App Studio How-To video, where we’ll show you how to set conditional styling on a row or field in a report using the Traffic Lights feature.
This feature lets you apply styling in the output when the field value meets criteria that you specify.
Use the Traffic Lights feature from the Reports tab…
…to create conditional styling that applies to the whole row.
Or, you can use the Traffic Lights feature from the Appearance tab…
…to create conditional styling that applies to column data fields alone. Let’s demonstrate this option.

Video: How to Create an HTML Page

You can bring your charts and reports together in an HTML page.  HTML pages provide numerous features, making them extremely flexible.  They can include reports, charts, forms, and interactive controls, and can be run in a web browser.
You create HTML pages in the HTML canvas.  To create an HTML page, access the HTML/Document wizard from the ribbon or Environments tree.   You can choose whether to use features such as Responsive Design or a color theme.
You can use the ribbon and panels in the HTML canvas to modify the HTML page.

Video: How to Create Content in App Studio

App Studio allows you to create a variety of different kinds of content using the data in your environment. 

Video: How to Use the Report Canvas

Reports are a way of organizing and showing your data in a tabular format.  The grid structure of a report makes it easy to find precise and valuable information from your data source.

In App Studio, you use the Report canvas to create reports.

Video: How to Create a Report That Drills Through to an InfoWindow in an HTML Page

Using the App Studio JavaScript drill-down functionality, you can use links in a report on an HTML page to open a second chart or report with additional information in an InfoWindow, allowing you to quickly perform further data analysis within the page.

This is our source report. It will be added to the HTML page and allow us to connect to a second chart or report containing information for each value in the sort field, Business Subregion.

Video: How to Run a Selected File From an HTML Page

Parameterized content is a great way to give users access to the information that is most relevant for them. Sometimes, however, you may want to make multiple different files available for selection, such as when they use different data sources, show different fields, or use different styling. You can do that by creating a control that lists procedures or HTML files, and then using the Run Procedures/HTML From Control request option.

 

Video: How to Specify Styling for User Selected Output Formats

Just like you can use dynamic parameters to allow user filter selection at run time, you can use the User output format to allow users to select the output format in which to run the report, allowing them to choose whether to open it as HTML in a browser, as a PDF, as an Excel spreadsheet, and more. You can then apply different styling options to each output format to suit each one.

To enable user selection of the output format, create a report and, from the Format tab, open the Output Format menu. Under Styled report formats, select User.

Specifying Styling for User Selected Output Formats Using the User Format Menu

If the output format for a report is set to user selection, the User Format menu becomes available. You can specify different styling for each available format by expanding the User Format menu, pointing to Create new empty styling block or Copy active styling to, and selecting an output format, as shown in the following image.