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Ad-hoc reporting refers to the on-the-spot creation of reports that are not pre-built, generated based on the client’s requirements by connecting directly to the live environment. You can also insert an image if needed.

Objective

Create Adhoc Report using Image.

Prerequisite

The adhoc_chart_demo.png is used for this example.

Download adhoc_image.zip file.

Adhoc Report - Image: This video contains information regarding How to Create Adhoc Report using Image in AIV.

Steps to Create Adhoc Report using Image

1. Login to AIV using your credentials.

2. There are three ways to add an Ad-hoc Report in the application:

   • From the Hamburger menu , navigate to Documents > Adhoc Reports. Then, click the (+) icon next to “Adhoc Reports”, as illustrated in the figure below:

   • Click on the Adhoc Reports grid, as shown in the figure below:

     • Right-click on any empty area in the list view and choose Create Adhoc from the context menu.

   • Click the Create Adhoc button located in the bottom horizontal menu bar, as shown in the figure below:

3. On clicking the Create Adhoc option, from one of the methods mentioned above user will see the window as below:

   

4. Drag and drop the Image component into the empty area as shown below:

   

5. Click on Upload icon from the top right corner as shown in the image above.

6. After you click the Upload icon, a dialog box appears where you can use the Open icon next to the empty field to select .jpg, .png, or .svg files to upload.

   

7. After selecting the required image, click the Open button to add and open it on the Ad-hoc Report main screen.

   

8. In the Select Image window, click the Submit button. The selected image is then inserted into the report, as shown below:

   

9. Select Landscape View from the Birt Template drop-down as shown.

   

10. Users can select the format in which they want to run the report from the drop-down next to the Run button.

    

11. For this example, we select HTML as the output format.

12. To run the Adhoc Report using the Image Component, click the Run button located at the top-right corner, as shown below:

    

13. Clicking on the Run button opens the following dialog box:

    

14. Since the datset has no parameters, the user clicks the SEND button, and it redirects them to a new tab in the browser.

15. The Adhoc Report using Image component will be generated in HTML.

    

16. If you want to save the image, click the save icon located at the top-right corner. This will open the following dialog box:

    

17. You can enter a custom name and choose either Save As Reports / Template.

18. For this example; give Name: AisReport_image & Select Save As: Reports and click on to perform the save operation.

19. If you want to change the settings of a component click on Setting icon below Run which will open the following dialog box:

    

20. Here you are changing the Name, Width, Height, Visibility, and then clicking on the to save the changes.

21. Similarly, click the Delete icon to remove the Image component.

The following graphical elements are available in Adhoc reports:

Adhoc Table
Adhoc Chart
Adhoc Annotation
Adhoc Text
Adhoc Pivot
Adhoc Pre-defined Components
Bind Parameters
Adhoc Embed Link