Data bound comment wizard

The Data Bound Comment Wizard allows you to summarize or highlight certain facts about the result. You can create comment text and field which shows the specified fact about the result.

To use the Data Bound Comment Wizard to create or edit comment, do the following:

  1. On the Insert menu, select Data Bound Comment.

    The Data Bound Comment Wizard appears.

  2. In the Create comment text dialog box, create the comment that should appear in the result.

  3. Use various commands such as to format the text.
  4. Select Add Field to current position.

An image of Data Bound Comment Wizard is shown below.

Following is an example of a report showing the contents entered in Data Bound Comment Wizard.

The fields and controls available in this dialog box are described in the following table:

Section Field Options Description

Create comment text

 

Use to format the text.

Changes in one place gets automatically updated where ever Copy and Paste options has been used.

 

Text element's name

 

Enter a name for the text element.

The name is only for your reference, it will not appear in the report, instead the current value for the text element will appear in the report.

 

Field Value

Aggregation

Select to aggregate the columns in the report table (Avg, Count, Max, Min, Sum).

 

 

Column Expression

Select to choose the configuration or statistics parameters from the list. Select the parameter twice in rapid succession in the list to populate the Column Expression field.

 

Filter

Select the filter operator from the list. Options include the following:

  1. And: Set the And filter operator.
  2. Or: Set the Or filter operator.
  3. Not And: Set the Not And filter operator.
  4. Not Or: Set the Not Or filter operator.
  5. Add Condition: Add a new condition.
  6. Add Group: Add a new set of filter conditions within the main condition.

 

 

Add a new filter condition to the group.

 

 

Open the list of objects and select the first operand of the filter.

 

 

Open the list of filter operators and select one of them to set the comparison type between the two operands.

 

 

Enter the value you want to compare the first operand to.

 

 

Delete this filter condition.

 

Sort

Aggregation

Select to aggregate the columns in the report table (Avg, Count, Max, Min, Sum).

 

 

Column Expression.

Select to select the configuration or statistics parameters from the list. Select twice in rapid succession the parameter in the list to populate the Column Expression field.

If the selected parameter is not recognized by IxReporter, the field will be highlighted by a red outline.

 

 

Order

Select to for order (Ascending or Descending)

 

Grouping

 

Select to select the configuration or statistics parameters from the list, to group by separated by a comma, like for example:

[HTTP Client Activity:Name], [HTTP Server Activity:Name], [HTTP Server Activity:Timestamp].

Select the parameter twice in rapid succession in the list to populate the Grouping field.

If the selected parameter is not recognized by IxReporter, the field will be highlighted by a red outline.

 

Format

Decimal Places

Specify decimal places (Min and Max).

 

 

Use 1000 separator

Select to use 1000 separator.

 

 

Percentage

Select if you want the value in percentage.

 

Finish

 

Select to close the Data Bound Comment wizard.