Adding text to the Ad-hoc Reports in the AIV application
In the previous section we learned how to add annotations to the Ad-hoc Reports. This section will teach you how to add text to your Ad-hoc Report.
In order to add text to your Ad-hoc report follow the following steps:-
- You can insert text below another widget like table.
- You can also add text on a new page as follows:-
- Drag and drop the text to empty area as shown above.
- Now you can insert text in the empty area and perform formatting as follows:-
- You can link your text to a specific URL by selecting the text and clicking
as follows:- - You can also insert an image or video by clicking on
or 
respectively. - You can insert a formula in your report by clicking on
as follows:- - Similarly, you can perform alignment, indentation, superscript and subscript using text.
- In order to run the text widget click on Run in the topmost right corner as follows:-
- For this example, we select Run as HTML.
- Click on HTML which will open the following dialog box:-
- As the text has no parameters, just click on Send.
- The following text will be generated in HTML.
- You can change the template format from the BIRT Templates as follows:-
- If you want to save your text you can click on the save button
at the topmost right corner below admin which will open the following dialog box:- - You can give your own name in selected column, and select format as Report/Template and press submit button to perform save operation.
- If you want to change the settings of a widget click on
below Run which will open the following dialog box:- - Here you can change name, width, height and visibility of your text message.
- Similarly press
in order to delete the text widget.
In the next section we will learn how to add predefined components to your ad-hoc reports.