What are differences between Reporter report and Explorer
report?

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What are differences between Reporter report and Explorer report?..

Answer / mohan potla

Many differences are there..
ER is default report type. which creates the report by
taking first two dimension row and cols.
RR gives blank report ,where u can add u r dimension of u r
interest.
Use ER to replace existing categories in an Explorer
report,

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What are differences between Reporter report and Explorer report?..

Answer / anil kumar reddy

Explorer Report
Use - To explore one dimension at a time
Default Layout - A crosstab structure with summaries on
rows and columns
Moving categories accross - replaces rows and columns
Drill-down behaviour - Drill down displays the next value
going down the categories hierarchy tree
Drill-up behaviour - Drill up displays the next value going
up the categories hierarchy tree
Calculation - Columns and rows totals calculated
automatically


Reporter Report
Use - To combine and mix various dimensions in rows,
columns and layers
Default Layout - A Blank report which is completely
customizable and can be tailored to users needs
Navigation.
Moving categories accross - adds rows and columns
Drill-down behaviour - Drill down adds more detailed values
next to the parent category
Drill-up behaviour - Drill up removes values from the child
categories
Calculation - Columns and rows totals not calculated

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