11. On the Choose
color theme and data visualization screen, select [CountryRegionCode]
for Field to visualize. Click Finish to close the wizard.
12. On the report
layout, we do not require Distance Scale and Color Scale. Right
click the Map area and deselect these from the menu.
13. Change the Map
Title to Sales by Country. You can edit this by double clicking it.
Change the legend title to Country . You might have noticed that the
legend is placed at outside the map so to bring it into map area right click
on the Legend and get the Legend Properties. Deselect the checkbox Show
Legend outside the viewpoint which is in General section of Map
Legend Properties. Preview the report and it should look as below:
14. Now the report is complete we can make some changes. First we will change
the name of the Analytical Dataset. Go to the design mode and open the Report
Data window. Expand Datasets and open the dataset named Dataset1.
Change the name of it to SalesByCountry.
15. If you are in design mode, you should see the
Map Layers pane. If you do not see, double click the map item. There is only one layer named PolygonLayer1. To
see the context menu of the Polygon layer, click the down arrow (
).
Click on the Layer Data… to see properties of data added to the layer.
16. Note that the Data
embedded in report radio button is selected in the General section.
This means the spatial data loaded from the .shp file has been embedded
in the report. If you want to draw the map at runtime, you may select other
options.
17. Click on the Analytical
data section. Note that the SalesByCountry dataset is selected as the
analytical data set. How two datasets are linked can be seen with this section
too. Click Cancel and close the window.
18. Click the down arrow () again in the PolygonLayer1
to get to the Polygon Properties…. Expand Label text dropdown in General
section and select [CountryRegionCode].
19. Click the (fx)
button of Tooltip in General section and set the expression as
below:
=format(Fields!TotalDue.Value, “C0”)
20.Click the down arrow () again in the PolygonLayer1
and select Polygon Color Rule… to see how colors have been applied to
the map. You should see that the third radio button Visualize data using
color ranges is selected. This is more appropriate if you want to compare
sales in each country based on the sales value, we can apply a different color
scheme if required – select the second radio button Visualize data using color palette
and ensure Data field is set to [CountryRegionCode] and Palette
as Random.
22. Once
the report is published navigate to the the site and it should appear as below:
We have now successfully
created our Map Report. The next map report which is a drill-down from this report
this will be generated using the ap Gallery and and two map layers.
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