The previous formatting options, that were displayed on the right-hand side of the screen are now hidden by default. If you haven’t upgraded to the October 2021 version of the dashboard, or you need to access this formatting section, you can click ‘Show Advanced Options’.
Report level
At Report level, you will be able to choose from Portrait or Landscape orientation, add padding to the pages and specifying a Header and /or Footer.
The ‘Skip Pages With Empty Data Tables’ option allows users to skip pages in the report, which contain only empty tables in its page content. This option is unticked by default.
Header/ Footer
The options available on the Header/ Footer section can be used to add:
 | Page numbers |
 | An image e.g. a company logo. The image can be a reference to an image directly on the server or you can enter a URL |
 | Text |
 | A date |
When users hover over the Image Path field, help text will be displayed that explains the type of image that can be added and indicates any errors when unsupported image paths have been used.
When one of the Header/ Footer options has been selected, you will then be able to choose whether it appears in the Header or Footer section and specify the position e.g. top left.
When any of the options in the Header/ Footer section are added to a report they will automatically appear on every page in the report.
Removing Header/ Footer items
If you’ve added header and footer items and no longer want to use them, you can delete them by:
Clicking into the Header/ Footer section in the Report formatting section.
You will see all items that have been added to the report.
Click on the item that you want to remove and click ‘Remove’ at the bottom of the page.
Page level
Page level formatting is used to change the width of the margins on the page. All margins can be set to the same size by clicking the drop-down arrow in the bottom-right corner and choosing a value from the list.
Alternatively, you can set each margin separately by changing the value next to the relevant margin.
To reset the margins to the default setting, click the drop-down arrow in the bottom-right corner and click the ‘Clear’ icon.
Box level
Box level formatting applies to the individual cells on your report. Click into the cell that you want to format, the formatting section on the right-hand side of the screen can be used to change the padding and margins for the selected cell, the options available will depend on whether the cell contains a chart or is a Text Box. If the cell is a Text Box you will be able to change both the Margin and Padding however, if the cell contains a chart you will only be able to change the padding.
To apply formatting, click the drop-down arrow next to the relevant format option. In the example below, we’ve applied a font colour to the selected text box.
The easiest way to remove a text colour is to delete the hex code from the text colour field.
To remove any font size changes, click into the relevant area of the report and click the drop-down arrow next to ‘Font Size’.
Click the ‘Clear’ icon to revert to the default font size.
Reports use the theme defined in the ‘System Variables: Themes' field (PI_STYLES) when they’re exported.
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