Settings landing page

Access the Settings landing page from the Designer Studio menu by clicking Reporting > Settings.

The following tabs are available on this landing page:

• Settings
• Maps

Using the Settings tab

From the Settings tab you can manage resource limits when running reports, or when exporting data from reports. You can also set the default behavior for charts in report definition reports. The Settings tab has three sections.

Resource limits when running reports

This section shows the current settings for two values:

• Maximum number of rows to retrieve
• Maximum elapsed time (in seconds) for database query

Click the edit icon to open the system settings data instance controlling either of these settings. Each data instance has five rows labeled System Settings Per Production Level.

To change the settings for one or all production levels, save a copy of the instance into a RuleSet and update the fields you want to change. Save the instance. The change affects all operators using access groups that have the RuleSet you saved the instance into as the top RuleSet in their Production RuleSets list.

You might need to log out and log in again for the changes to take effect.

You can also adjust these settings for a report in the General Data Source Settings section of the Data Access tab of the report definition rule.

You can set the default settings for all report definitions created within a particular class in the pyDefaultReport (for list reports) and pyDefaultSummaryReport (for summarized reports) templates for that class.

Resource limits when exporting data from reports

This section shows the current settings for two values:

• Maximum number of rows to retrieve
• Maximum elapsed time (in seconds) for database query

See the notes for the previous section for information on updating these settings.

Display options for report definition charts

The controls in this section set the default behavior for charts associated with report definitions.

• Check the "Enforce these settings for all reports at run-time" to prevent developers from setting different behaviors for specific reports.
• Select the "Use version 5 charts for Pie, Bar, Column, Area and Line charts" radio button to use the Flash charts for these chart types that were available before PRPC Version 6.3. These charts are not compatible with many mobile devices.
• Select the "Use version 6 charts" radio button (the default) to use the latest (HTML5-compliant) charts for all chart types.
  
  • Check the "Initial display in 3D where available" check box to have charts with a 3D option (such as pie, column, and area) display in 3D when they first appear. The report user can choose to switch the chart to a 2D view, and to switch back.

Using the Maps tab

For map charts displayed in reports on each class, use the Maps tab to define how to associate known map regions, or areas with property values in that class. If these associations are not defined correctly, the data might not display, or might display and be associated with the wrong regions.

• Select a Map Type and a Class (enter at least two characters in each field, and click the SmartPrompt control to display the selection options using those two characters).
• Select an unlocked RuleSet and version in which to save the Map Value settings. Always use this gadget to manipulate a map value rule.

When you enter valid choices in each field, a list appears of regions or areas in the map that you selected. For each region, enter an appropriate property value from the class.

Inspect the data source that you are using, and apply the property values used in the data source to the property value fields of the map regions.

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