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great idea for applications with many users as the sheer quantity can be
overwhelming, thus diminishing the usefulness. This is not displayed for
unauthenticated pages.
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Reset
: Used to reset the report to the default settings.
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Help
: Used to display instructions for using the Interactive report. It will only
include a discussion of the options that are enabled for that report.
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Download
: Used to download the report in different formats. The available
formats are specified within the Download Region.
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Subscription *
: Used to send a report to a list of comma-separated email addresses
(as of version 4.0.2; only one email address prior to that version). You provide a
subject for the email along with the frequency (Daily, Weekly, Monthly). You can
also include start and end dates. The report that is sent contains the data set at the
current point in time as well as the current report settings. This is not displayed for
unauthenticated pages.
Also within the report-level settings is the Save Public Report Authorization (mentioned above
within Save Public Report). Additional settings that control the look of the search bar include Button
Template, Finder Image, Actions Menu Image, Search Button Label, and Maximum Rows Per Page.
Before you turn off the search bar, make sure that you have saved the default report settings for the
report (because once the actions menu is off, you cannot do it—well, you can: you just turn it back on,
run the report, save the settings and then turn it back off— a process I am very familiar with). If you are
removing the search bar, but keeping on column heading features like filtering and sorting, you will
want to create a Reset button to allow your users to get back to the default settings, as shown in Figure
13-26. I sometimes include a Reset button even when I have kept the search bar and actions menu. I
place it to the Right of Interactive Report Search Bar. This way, users that are not even familiar with the
Actions Menu can clear any filters that might be present from drilling into a report. The button needs to
simply call the page passing
RIR
as the request (and the page number if you also have items referenced in
your 'where' clause).
Figure 13-26
. Reset button attributes
