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What's New?
The new DIG Report Writer functionality is almost here! Within the next few weeks, DIG will release a powerful new report writer capability that will be a standard feature within the DIG product offering. The capabilities of the report writer will include:
- Standard and user-defined headers/footers
- Reports generated from tables, queries, views and DIG search results
- Support of mathematical statements to perform data calculations for numeric values
- User-defined text labels
- Flexible and customizable report formatting
- Support for conditional formatting
- Drop-down lists for labels and variables
- Optional page numbering
- Support for "special fields"
- Support for text object properties
- Support for date object properties
- Data filtering
- Support for data connectors and the use of "wildcards"
- Data grouping
- Data sorting
- User Designer Control
- Label support
- Unlimited reporting "bands" on a page
- Multi-column reports
- Hyperlink embedding
- Layout import / export
- Report caching
- And a whole lot more…
The DIG Report Writer will allow users to design and execute customized reports from database table data, database query data or DIG search results data. Reports can be generated with headers, footers, and row and column labels that can be defined by the user or generated based on the data retrieved from the data sources. This valuable new feature will allow users to share DIG query results with large communities of groups and individuals that may not have direct access to DIG. In addition, reports generated from DIG search results will make it easy to hold meetings and discussions where descriptive data and tailored data formatting add value to the data itself.
In addition to this exciting report writer capability, DIG will continue to provide output interfaces to Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel. The new DIG report writer capability will not require users to purchase any external run-time software products and will be available to existing users that are current and up-to-date with their DIG software maintenance fees.
For more information visit our Web site at www.visualanalytics.com or call us at 301-407-2200.
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Here are a few tips and tricks to help you use DIG quickly and more efficiently.
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Compound Search
Constructing a compound search can help account for data entry variations. For example, consider addresses. Addresses are often written, or typed during data entry, in varying formats. This can result in misleading search results. Consider the following address:
1613 South Main Street
An individual entering this address in a search could enter any of the following formats:
1613 S Main Street
1613 S. Main Street
1613 S. Main St
1613 So. Main St
1613 S Main St
1613 So. Main St.
To return a comprehensive list of results, a DIG user could construct a compound search for the following criteria:
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Home_Address |
Starts With |
1613 |
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Home_Address |
Contains |
Main |
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