The Ad Hoc application is an easy-to-use reporting solution that allows you to generate meaningful reports from your available data sources. By using pre-defined data source templates, you can easily re-use existing data configurations. You own the style of your Ad Hoc reports: create individual themes to adhere to your style guide and make your reports pop.
Ad Hoc offers a versatile and extendable way to create reports incorporating multiple components, such as tables, charts, and crosstabs. It responds extremely fast to changes to your settings in the user interface - making it even more fluent to use.
From the overview, you can directly start with a new Ad Hoc report by selecting one of the available components. Alternatively, you may open an existing Ad Hoc report from the Drive application or from your local file system1).
During the creation of an Ad Hoc report, you will add one or more reporting components to your report. The user interface always displays a toolbar at the top, the selected components just below and settings for the selected component on the right side when not on mobile and not configured otherwise. Component settings have three levels: Simple, Moderate, and Complex - allowing fine-grained control over additional settings.
The toolbar is always on top, allowing global settings and actions being taken on the report. Here are the elements:
Ad Hoc reports are made up from individual components, that may be extended by additional plugins. Some components, such as the report header, may only be available for themes that have the component set up.
Many components have their own Data Source that must be selected to continue. You have the option of either selecting a predefined Ad Hoc template, selecting an available Data Source, or uploading a ‘’CSV‘’, ‘’JSON‘’ or ‘’XML‘’ or selecting one from the Drive4).
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