Reportico FAQ

How do I do drilldown to other reports?

This is described in the Reportico Assignment menu in assign.DrilldownReport

How do I do rolling sums, maximums etc?

This is described in the Reportico Assignment menu in assign.AssignAggType

How do I do include graphics from my database into the report output

Go to the Assignments tab, add an assignment and choose the Database Graphic Wizard, enter the table and column information where the image can be found. This is further described in the Reportico Assignment documentation in assign.AssignGraphicBlobCol

How do I do produce output with lines of alternating colours

Go to the Assignments tab, add an assignment go to the style options and enter a Row style setting background colour to something fairly light like #eeeeff for example and then add another with a slightly differenct colour, say #f2f2ff and with a condition of lineno() % 2 == 1 which will set this colour only when the current report line no (which lineno() evaluates to) is odd. This will work in both PDF and HTML output.

How do I do set the color of a value based on its value

Go to the Assignments tab, add an assignment, select the column you which set the colour of. In the condition field enter you column test such as {stock} < 5 (You will need safe mode off). Then go to the style options and set the apply style setting to "Cell" and set the text colour to your chosen value such as #ff0000 for red.