The Co-Display option allows you to link multiple reports together from a single master report. This can include:
The benefit of these options is that you can show multiple reports within a single master report that have unrelated data sets but are of common interest to the user.
The following video illustrates how co-display reports can be set up and displayed.
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A co-display report can show charts and tables from different reports. However, co-display reports embedded within other co-display reports won't be fully visible. For example, if you add co-display report A to co-display report B, co-display report B will only show the 'parent' report from co-display report A.
In this situation, there are a few other options available. A tabbed report will display the content of report B on one tab and the full content of co-display report A on the next tab.
Better still, a dashboard provides even more flexibility, so you can place multiple objects wherever you like, including reports, charts, global filters and code widgets (storytelling feeds, videos etc.), plus access to code mode. In fact, the only current limitation with dashboards is that they cannot currently export to DOCX or XLSX format. Co-display reports can.
When setting up your Co-Display you have the choice to use a 'Tabbed' option. This will mean the child report will be displayed on a seperate tab to that of the main report, for example:
With Yellowfin you can include a user prompt filter on your report and share that filter with your Co-Display reports.
When editing your reports you may attempt to edit a report that is used as a child report for another report. If you delete a field from your report that is required by your parent report the parent report will fail. Your users, if they do not have edit access to reports, will not be able to fix the error. Therefore, be very careful when editing or deleting your reports so that you do not impact on related reports.
You can format your co-display reports from the main report menu. Once you have included related reports you will see a related report section on the menu. Click on this and then choose the related report you wish to apply formatting to.
Option | Description |
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Show Title | Uncheck this option if you wish to remove the report title from the co-display report |
Show Description | Uncheck this option if you wish to remove the report description from the co-display report |
Fit to Parent | Check this item if you want the co-display report to be stretched to fit the parent report. Note this option will only work for reports where the child is narrower than the parent report. |
Border Width | Set the width of the border by typing in a numeric value for the pixels you want. |