Report Presentation Templates
Developing new reports to present organizational information shouldn't mean spending loads of time manually designing a new layout. Spending hours tediously manipulating report elements draws vital time away from other duties. With InetSoft's StyleBI, all necessary tabular information can be inserted into pre existing reporting templates.
InetSoft's powerful and robust BI platform, StyleBI, makes it so that many reports can share similar properties, layouts, and elements. Because of this, it is best to use a template that encompasses all of your information to save you time and to continue to build off of existing performance. This makes it easier to combine new information with similar elements for full group reports. When given the power to act quickly and reduce your response times, more sound business decisions can be made.
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Benefits of Meta-Templates
With StyleBI's report designer, you can create meta-templates and re-use report layouts. This way you can start new reports faster. Making your meta-templates are quite easy, and will save you copius amounts of time once they are implemented.
As you can see in the image above, there are a broad array of choices to build re-usable templates. Based on a Meta-Template, several predefined templates are provided by Report Designer. These are the Blank Tabular Report, Blank Flow Report, Mailing Label, Simple Report, Large Portlet, and Small Portlet templates.
When creating new templates you can include any pre-existng similar properties, to save repeated editing. However, templates can also be general enough to allow room to create new reports from it at a later point. By including essential categories, you can make sure that other employees include those in regular reports.
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Interactive Presentations Of Data
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Make It Simple And Attractive
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Pre Existing Reporting Templates
This article introduces the idea of meta-templates: reusable presentation/report layouts in InetSoft’s StyleBI/Report Designer. It shows how using templates speeds report creation and enforces consistency in look and feel across reports. It’s pitched as a productivity and visual branding benefit for organizations producing many reports.
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Display A Numeric Value
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Problems And Solutions For The Efficient Report Designer
This article details typical challenges in report design (layout rigidity, inability to combine different data types, summarization/grouping) and how InetSoft’s Style Report resolves them. It describes features like flow layout vs tabular layout, custom report elements (tables, charts, sections), and advanced summarization to improve report usefulness. The piece is especially helpful for report designers wanting more control, flexibility, and visual polish.
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Database Report Designer Capabilities
This page describes the capabilities of InetSoft’s Database Report Designer, a drag-and-drop, web-based tool that allows “pixel-perfect production reporting” from multiple database sources. It emphasizes features like export options, dynamic report viewing, parameterization, and enterprise-level scalability. The focus is on producing professional reports for both technical and non-technical users.
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Seamless Report Data Interface
This article covers the “reporting options” in InetSoft’s StyleBI / Style Report Enterprise, especially how the data query tools, formula editors, column binding, and interface-level customization allow deep control over how data is fetched and represented in reports. It shows that reports aren’t just “draw this chart or table”—there are choices about how to sort, filter, bind, and format so that reports match business needs. It also explains how interface features support both casual users and power users.
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Deploying A Report From The Designer
This article walks through how report templates designed in the designer can be deployed to the report repository, including setting up permissions, choosing folder structure, embedding queries or assets, and configuring server settings. It highlights best practices for organizing reports for reuse, version control, and maintaining access security. Useful for organizations that need structured deployment of many reports or sharing them across teams.
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Report Filtering Example
This example-style article explains how to apply filters in reports: simple ones (e.g. “orders greater than $10,000”), compound ones with AND/OR logic, and how filter definitions are tied to UI elements in the reporting tool. It shows that good filtering improves clarity and relevance of reports by letting users focus on the slice of data most important to them. Also shows how filtering interacts with other report elements like tables, charts, and drill-downs.
