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About Custom Reports

The Report Editor is used to build a custom report. The process used to generate a report is shown in the
figure below. In this diagram, the arrows represent the flow of data, while the icons represent the
processing stages that the data goes through.
Figure 40
.
Starting from the top left, and working clockwise:
The Report Type (

Report Parameters (

generation process, before any data is selected.
Report data is taken from the Data Source (

interest (
fields are derived from the source fields ("derived fields").
One or more Source Filters (

in the report.
In some reports, data is classified and grouped into Bins and Groups (

these classification groups allows for summary information to be calculated (
this chapter).
The result of the report is one or more Output Series (

contain data from the source fields, derived fields, or the statistic and metric fields calculated from the
classification groups.
Output Filters (

report.
The report itself consists of charts, tables and text content that are arranged using the Presentation

Options (
chapter).
The data classification steps in the top right corner of the diagram are detailed in in this chapter. See
"Report History"
you to classify related data records and extract statistics of interest from them.
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Report generation process
"Report Type") specifies the basic properties for the report.
"Report Parameters"
"Select Fields" in this chapter). Some fields are used directly ("source fields"), while some
"Source Filters"
"Output Filters"
"Presentation Options"
and "Groups"
in this chapter) are used as an input to the report
"Data Source"
in this chapter) is used to restrict which data is included
"Output Series"
in this chapter) can be used to select specific data to output from the
in this chapter) to yield the Final Report (
in this chapter. Understanding how to use bins and groups will allow
in this chapter), and by selecting fields of
"Classification
"Statistics and Metrics"
in this chapter), which can
"Final Report"
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Groups"). Using
in
in this