Creating Slicers

How to:

You can create slicers by dragging fields to the Slicers tab or through the context menu of a field.

Note: If you are working in Chart mode in WebFOCS App Studio, slicer functionality is not available.

When you create a slicer group, it appears on the Slicers tab, as shown in the following image.

You can use slicers to dynamically filter reports at design time.

You can dynamically filter reports at run time when they are included in an InfoMini application. For more information on InfoMini, see Building InfoMini Applications.

Procedure: How to Create a Slicer

  1. Click the Slicers tab.
  2. Create a new slicer by using one of the following methods:
    • Click the New Group button to create a new slicer group.

      Select a field from the Data pane and drag it onto the Drag Fields Here to Create Slicers text on the Slicers tab.

      Note: You cannot drag parent-child hierarchies onto the Slicers tab.

      The field is added to the new group.

      or

    • Right-click a field in the Data pane, point to Slicers, and then click New Group, as shown in the following image.
      New Group Option

      The field is added to the new group.

      If you are creating a slicer on a full date field, a calendar icon displays adjacent to the field. You can use this icon to select a date using a calendar control, as shown in the following image.

Procedure: How to Add a Field to an Existing Slicer Group

  1. Click the Slicers tab.
  2. Add a field to an existing slicer group using one of the following methods:
    • Select a field from the Data pane and drag it onto an existing slicer group.

      or

    • Right-click a field in the Data pane, point to Slicers, and then click Existing Group.

      Select an existing group from the menu, and then click OK.

      The field is added to the existing group. For more information, see Group Tab.

Procedure: How to Add a Hierarchy as a Slicer Group

Note: You cannot drag parent-child hierarchies onto the Slicers tab.

  1. Click the Slicers tab.
  2. Add a hierarchy as a slicer group using one of the following methods:
    • Select a hierarchy from the Data pane and drag it onto an existing slicer group.

      The hierarchy is added as a new group, not as a slicer in the existing group. The new group is given the same name as the hierarchy.

      or

    • Click the New Group button to create a new slicer group.

      Select a hierarchy from the Data pane and drag it onto the Drag Fields Here to Create Slicers text of the Slicers tab.

      The hierarchy is added to the new group. The name of the new group changes to the name of the hierarchy automatically. For example, if you create a slicers group using the Product hierarchy, Product,Category, Product,Sub,Category, and Model are added and the group is automatically named Product.

    Note: Hierarchies cannot be added to existing slicer groups. If a hierarchy is dragged onto an existing slicer group, a new group is created automatically.

    There is no right-click context menu for hierarchies. To add a hierarchy as a slicer group, you must drag it into a new slicer group.