Drill Through for Active Reports Online and Offline

[shelby435]

Hi Everyone

I have a requirement to set up a drill through report from a current active report. The users are both using the iPad and the computer and might be offline or online. I know with Application Drill Through it only works for the iPad and you have to push out the drilled report. I know with the traditional drill through method you have to be online and the drilled to report does not save on the iPad.

I know one might say why not just add to the original report (as a new deck...) but the original report is already huge and we are trying not to add anything.

Just wanted to see if anyone did something like this or has any ideas?

Thanks!

Shelby

[MFGF]

Hi Everyone

I have a requirement to set up a drill through report from a current active report. The users are both using the iPad and the computer and might be offline or online. I know with Application Drill Through it only works for the iPad and you have to push out the drilled report. I know with the traditional drill through method you have to be online and the drilled to report does not save on the iPad.

I know one might say why not just add to the original report (as a new deck...) but the original report is already huge and we are trying not to add anything.

Just wanted to see if anyone did something like this or has any ideas?

Thanks!

Shelby

Hi,

You're stuck between two methods implemented by IBM here - Application Drill Through for offline access on mobile devices and traditional Drill Through for online access. There is no single method for both, sadly.

Going back to your thought about not adding to the original report... is it big because there's a lot of data, or because of the way it's written? For example, if you have lots of charts on lots of data decks, could you simplify the report by replacing them with visualizations and filtering the visualizations instead of selecting the data decks? If so, you might be able to add to the report and still have the size smaller than it is currently?

Just a thought?

MF.

[shelby435]

MF, thanks for the reply.

Already with you on that one. We are using visualizations with filtering (8 viz's all together).  It's just  a lot of data. My users pull the report so they can choose anywhere from 1 item in the prompt page to 30, where said item drives all the data.

I told my client the pros and cons of our options and I think we are going to add to the current report. Development wise it's the easiest just have to keep an eye on size.

Speaking of which, do you know a way to see the file size without sending to your email to see the size? I check the info and see output rows etc but that's not entirely what I'm looking for.

[MFGF]

MF, thanks for the reply.

Already with you on that one. We are using visualizations with filtering (8 viz's all together).  It's just  a lot of data. My users pull the report so they can choose anywhere from 1 item in the prompt page to 30, where said item drives all the data.

I told my client the pros and cons of our options and I think we are going to add to the current report. Development wise it's the easiest just have to keep an eye on size.

Speaking of which, do you know a way to see the file size without sending to your email to see the size? I check the info and see output rows etc but that's not entirely what I'm looking for.

I usually run it and save to the content store, then download the saved output and check the file size on my local filesystem :)

MF.

[shelby435]

Thanks. I've done that too. Thought you might have had another trick up your sleeve :)

[MFGF]

Thanks. I've done that too. Thought you might have had another trick up your sleeve :)

I did but sadly the rabbit ate it ;)