
Tips Recipes Brio 2002
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Section Type: Report section
Tip Name: Full-Row Spotlighting
Purpose / Use: To highlight an entire row of data when a particular field item is out of
scope.
Sample File: Full row spotlighting.bqy
Steps to Produce: Build a field-object based report that is formatted to look like a table
report, add a second copy of the spotlighting field and set it as a full-row
background. (Requires Brio Intelligence v6.1.0 or higher.)
1. Build your query as normal and process it to fetch a representative data sample.
2. Insert a new Report section, select the default table object and delete it. For ease of design,
you may want to display the report’s section boundaries in the report by selecting the
Report | Section Boundaries menu selection.
3. Add any grouping fields you want to use into the Report Groups area of the Outliner.
4. In your Results section, add a computed item named “One” using a formula of 1. Add this
field as the lowest report group (so far), and then delete the display of this field from the
report group’s header.
5. Select a field to be the “group-controlling field”. This is usually the left-most field in your
report “table”. In this example, the controlling field is the “Product Category”. Add this
field into the Report Groups area of the Outliner as the last group field. Delete the display
of this group-controlling field from the report group header.
6. Drag each “table” field into the group-controlling field’s report group header and format as
desired. Your report should look like this so far:
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