Book Properties

When you are creating a new book, regardless of type, there are two book properties to consider:

• Determine Parameters from Content

• Required Input Parameters

Parameters let you determine what data should be displayed in the resulting report book. They act like filters in that only certain data is selected and displayed in the report book. Each of these items is explained in further detail below.

Determine Parameters from Content

This item can be set to True or False. If set to True, it automatically determines the required input parameters from the book's content items. For large report books, setting this to False and manually specifying the required parameters will result in a performance gain.

Required Input Parameters

This field requires a comma-separated list of parameter names. You can leave this field blank if Determine Parameters from Content is set to True.

Using an Item to Change Parameters

Change parameters are used to turn off the prompt that the parameter would normally generate to define the desired result of the book. The Loop definition populates the items instead.

For example, imagine a cube view that would normally prompt you for the time member to be added to the report book. In this case, you might not want the user to make a selection, and instead, you want the report book to run for the workflow time. Rather than copying or altering the cube view, you would add an Item to Change Parameters.