Oracle CRM On Demand Dashboards- P7: There are many people I would like to thank as I sit here after having just penned the final chapter of this book. I am sure I will miss many specific people if I tried to list them all, but I am compelled to mention some specific supporters. | Chapter 6 Displaying Reports on the Dashboard 97 Delete Wrapping up our tour of the Report object on the dashboard we have the Delete button. Its function is obvious. If you click the Delete button on the report the entire report is removed from the dashboard layout. You do not receive a confirmation dialog so take care that you do not accidentally delete your report while trying to click the Properties or Rename button. Clicking Delete does not delete the report from Oracle CRM On Demand however. It simply removes the report from the dashboard. Property Combinations An interesting thing happens when you combine some of the properties mentioned earlier. The properties are additive. If you turn on the Report Links feature on a report that you have embedded as a link for instance the resulting report screen that opens when a user clicks the report link will have the report links that you selected on the Report object. If you have identified a single view using the Show View option this too is passed to the target report screen on a report that is embedded as a link. This gives you a great deal of control over how your linked reports appear. Designing Reports for Dashboards In the remainder of this chapter I provide a high-level overview of report design for readers who are interested in working with custom dashboards but do not necessarily develop reports. The functionality that is the focus of this section will be report columns filters and views with a bent toward reports designed for use on dashboards. I begin from the point in your dashboard development where you have added a report to your dashboard and chosen the Modify Request option described earlier. As described selecting Modify Request takes you to the Build and View Analysis screen in Answers On Demand. Since you are modifying an existing report you should already have a report with columns and those columns appear here on this Step 1 screen a sample of which is shown in Figure 6-5. Let us take a moment .
