Making the Data Explorer permanently visible

The Data Explorer is by default set up as a pop-up window meaning it is initially hidden but can be made visible through the click of a button. Also it hides when an indicator or date is selected or when the user clicks outside of the component.

If you wish to make the Data Explorer a permanently visible component, you tick the check box for the property ‘Visible At Startup?’ and remove the tick for the properties ‘PopUp Window?’ and ‘Hide On Selection’.

Show Dates?

If an indicator has one or more dates, these are by default listed in the Data Explorer allowing the end user to select the date they are interested in. If you wish to hide the dates from the Data Explorer you can do this by removing the tick from the ‘Show Dates?’ property. In this case the end user only selects the indicator and either the most recent date is loaded or the active date of the last indicator selection (see ‘Load Most Recent Date On Selection?’). If the time animation component is part of the report layout, the end user can use it to select the different dates for the active indicator. If you do not have the time animation component in the report design and you hide the dates from the Data Explorer, the historical values will only be visible in the time series chart.

Load Most Recent Date On Selection?

This property only has an effect if the property ‘Show Dates?’ is unticked and if your data contains multiple indicators with different time series. For example Indicator 1 contains yearly data from 2005 to 2010 and Indicator 2 contains yearly data from 2000 to 2015. The report first opens showing the most recent date of Indicator 1 which is 2010.

If the property ‘Load Most Recent Date On Selection?’ is not ticked and the end user changes the indicator selection to Indicator 2 in the Data Explorer, the report will try to load the same date for Indicator 2 if it is available. In the example this would also be year 2010. If the report can’t find a matching date, it will load the most recent date of the newly selected indicator.

If the property ‘Load Most Recent Date On Selection?’ is ticked then the report will not attempt to match the selected date on indicator change but will always load the latest available date. For the example this would be year 2010 for Indicator 1 and year 2015 for Indicator 2.