There is already an amazing set of webreport related widgets in the smartui (like HTML Webreport, Nodes List WebReport, Visual Count and Widget Carousel) in smartUI along with a couple of controls, models and actions which make the usage of webreports in smartUI much easier (like parameter.prompt.form, table.report, status.screen, open.webreport, WRTextModel etc). More detailled informations can be found in my Training “Advanced Workshop Webreports”.
At the dawn of the new version, we got a couple of new and extended widgets to be used with webreports.
Some amazing new full-page widgets hit the road
New in Content Server 21.1: New Webreport Widgets and Extensions. They display a full-page of data in a folder or Business Workspace in the Smart View. Three new full-page Content Intelligence widgets are now available to use with Perspectives:
- Nodes Table Report – Full page
- Table WebReport – Full page
- Visual Count – Full page
Users may want to display visual countable data as a full-page chart or present a list of nodes, for example documents to be processed, in a full-page format in the Smart View.
The new full-page widgets will also work with Business Workspace tabbed perspectives, to add various reports sourced using WebReports. Full-page widgets can also be used with other Perspective layouts.
New Webreport Destination
A new WebReport destination, Full Page Widget, sees action for the Nodes Table WebReport, Table WebReport, HTML WebReport and Visual Count destinations.
Once the Full Page Widget output destination is selected, the Nodes Table WebReport, Table WebReport, HTML WebReport or Visual Count can be selected for the Type.
To support the new transport destination added for full page widgets, the transport destination page now has references to the Table Report SubWebReport node and the Visual Count button node to be transported.
Nodes Table WebReport – full page
The Nodes List WebReport widget displays a list of items (nodes) generated from the WebReport’s data source in a full-page view, similar to the browse view.
Parameter prompts can be added for the user to input date ranges, attribute values, etc. using the commands, actions and models mentioned above (since 20.1). If in use, an edit pencil button will display to edit the parameters.
Custom columns, scrolling, name search and pagination are supported.
The node action menu and multi-select actions are available to work with the items in the result set.
All titles and labels support multilingual metadata.
Configuration is done this way. Configure thhis widget and add the title and the node id of the webreport to display in the perspective manager. An Icon Class displays the appropriate Icon on the widget.
Table Web Report – full page
The Table WebReport widget displays a list of items based on the WebReports data source in full page mode.
Parameter prompts can be added for the user to input date ranges, attribute values, etc. using the commands, actions and models mentioned above (since 20.1). An edit pencil button will display to edit the parameters.
Additional data columns, scrolling, column filtering for multiple columns and pagination are supported.
Additional actions can be added, for example a sub-WebReport to initiate a workflow, send an email or create a document node from the item.
Titles and labels support multilingual metadata.
Visual Count – full page
The Visual Count helps visualize countable data using a full-page chart in the Smart View. The chart view (can use bar, donut or pie) has controls for users to filter and drill into data easily.
Parameter prompts can be added for the user to input date ranges, attribute values, etc. using the commands, actions and models mentioned above (since 20.1). If in use, an edit pencil button will display to edit the parameters.
Action buttons can be added, such as export to CSV file, email report data and initiate workflow.
Titles and labels support multilingual metadata.
The Visual Count tile widget and full-page Visual Count widget has a new Horizontal Bar type option.
The original Bar type has been renamed to Vertical Bar to distinguish the two bar types.
The horizontal bar, vertical bar, donut and pie chart types can be changed in the Perspective Manager and Edit page.
New WebReport features
New Enable Row Filters Tag
This new tag [LL_WEBREPORT_ENABLEROWFILTERS /] is designed to automatically filter a WebReport data source when the report is used as a button with the Visual Count widget.
This has also been added to the tag guide as a general feature. This allows WebReports to have better out- of-the box support for dynamic complex filters.
Hidden columns allowed to be included in Table WebReport widget
A new tag option is now available for Table WebReport widgets, INCLUDEHIDDENCOLUMNS:, to specify a list of columns that you want to include in the data returned to the client for each data row. The column will not be included in the columns array in the response.