Porter ThorndikeSystems Engineer

TopicsMicrographsInteractive PDF documentsCascading Stylesheets and GradientsCustomer ExamplesLightning Round

Topic 1 - Micrographs

What are they?

Why use them?Is there training on them?

What are other people doing with them?http://www.bonavistasystems.com/OnlineDemoReports.htmlhttp://www.fusioncharts.com/http://www.fusioncharts.com/widgets/Gallery.asp

SparklineA Sparkline is a type of information graphics characterized by its small

size and data density. Sparklines present trends and variations associated with some measurement, such as average temperature or stock market activity, in a simple and condensed way. Several sparklines are often used together as elements of a small multiple.

The term 'Sparkline' was proposed by Edward Tufte for "small, high resolution graphics embedded in a context of words, numbers, images." Tufte describes sparklines as "data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics".[1]. Whereas the typical chart is designed to show as much data as possible, and is set off from the flow of text (as in the box below), sparklines are intended to be succinct, memorable, and located where they are discussed.

Sparklines used inline are typically made about the same height as the text around them.

Bullet GraphA bullet graph is a variation of a bar graph developed by Stephen Few.

Seemingly inspired by the traditional thermometer charts and progress bars found in many dashboards, the bullet graph serves as a replacement for dashboard gauges and meters. Few developed bullet graphs to overcome the fundamental issues of gauges and meters; they typically display too little information, require too much space, and are cluttered with useless and distracting decoration.

The bullet graph features a single, primary measure (for example, current year-to-date revenue), compares that measure to one or more other measures to enrich its meaning (for example, compared to a target), and displays it in the context of qualitative ranges of performance, such as poor, satisfactory, and good. The qualitative ranges are displayed as varying intensities of a single hue to make them discernible by those who are color blind and to restrict the use of colors on the dashboard to a minimum.

Bullet Graphs

Provided materialsSparkline exampleBullet Graph exampleReport with Sparkline exampleThe app needed to create this example

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Topic 2 – Interactive PDF’s

Step 1Create a FLEX dashboard

Step 2Create FLEX Active report

Step 3 Create new PDF document OROpen existing PDF document

Step 4 InsertFLEX Active report

Step 5Insert FLEX dashboard

Step 6Revel in your awesomeness

Topic 3 – Gradients

Step 1Open existing report ORCreate new report

Step 2Create new Cascading Stylesheet OROpen existing Cascading Stylesheet

Using gradients for column titles, headings, etc…CSS: .wftitle { filter:

progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(gradientType=0,startColorStr=Black,endColorStr=White ); color: WHITE ; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold ;font-size:12; vertical-align:middle; float: left;text-align: center;}

WF FEX CODE: ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON ON TABLE SET CSSURL 'http://thorndike:8080/approot/statestreet2/statestreet.css‘

WF STYLESHEET CODE:  TYPE=TITLE,      COLOR='WHITE',      BACKCOLOR=RGB(92 92 92),      STYLE=BOLD,      CLASS=wftitle, $

Using gradients for launch pages

Step 1

Cascading StylesheetOpen existing Cascading Stylesheet ORCreate new Cascading Stylesheet

Stylesheet code.hdrbox{ filter:

progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(gradientType=0,startColorStr=#ffffff,endColorStr=Gainsboro); color: BLACK ; font-family: calibri, arial;font-weight: bold ;font-size:11pt; vertical-align:middle;

line-height:25px;width: 100px;float: left;text-align: center; display: block;border: 1px solid #bbbbbb;}

Step 2Open existing parameterized report ORCreate new parameterized report

Topic 4 – Customer ExamplesTBD

Topic 5THE LIGHTING ROUND!