With the release of CUIC 7.5.3, there is one grid, the grid that was previously known as the "grouped grid". Since it now supports dynamic sorting it is now the only grid available.
One of the nice things about this grid is that much of its appearance can be customized by modifying the CSS (cascading style sheet) file that dictates its appearance. This is an undocumented technique, but should be fairly straightforward for anyone with a bit of HTML experience.
This CSS file can be found in the <CUIC root>/Stylesheets/ directory, and is called "StaticGroup.css". You can open this file in a text editor such as Notepad or Wordpad.
While a discussion of CSS is beyond the scope of this article, let's take a simple example, hiding the user and filter information at the bottom of the report.
After opening the StaticGroup.css file you can hide the footer information by deleting the existing style information for the .dateUserSummary and .filterSummary classes, and replace them with a style that hides those elements:
That's it! Other elements can be changed as well, play with it and make it your own. Make sure that you don't change the class names or the styles won't apply at all.
Note that any changes made to this file will be applied across the entire system, so you can't modify these and only apply the effect to a single report. If you change this file you will need to keep a backup as well, because subsequent releases and/or patches of CUIC will overwrite your modifications.
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By
Jason Kolb, On 8/24/09 1:56 PM
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I've just published a fairly comprehensive list of ways to improve performance of CUIC 7.5.x on the Developer Community at
http://bit.ly/85kB.
There are a few items that I've covered in blog posts before, but a ton of new content as well. The document covers the following topics:
- Server considerations
- Configuration options
- Database maintenance
- Data source load balancing
- Report Design
- Data caching
- Dashboard design
- Value list refresh
- Scheduled reports
This whitepaper covers a lot of ground on various internal CUIC technical issues that are little-understood, so even if you've just wondered about what's about on under the hood it may be worth a read.
You'll need a developer services contract to see this whitepaper, but otherwise it's available now for your reading pleasure.
Want to show off your Web 2.0 mojo? Here's a fun way to share reports with your Twitter contacts.
First, find the report you want in the Report Manager, right-click it, and click on the Report Info context menu item.
The Report Info dialog is very handy, it gives you all the information you need to access a report without using the CUIC menus. Here, we want the "Interactive Grid Permalink":
Just copy this URL and paste it into a browser to test it. You should get right to the report. Not that you may need to tweak the URL if your server name isn't configured properly or is blank, for example you might have to add http://<SERVERNAME>/<permalink> to the front of the URL given to you here.
Once you have the permalink, it's time to shorten it to fit into Twitter's 140 character limit, as it's pretty long. Go to
bit.ly or
tinyurl.com and plug the permalink in:
You'll get back a nice short URL that you can use in a tweet:
You can take this shortened URL and paste it into a Tweet, where you can share your wonderful report with your colleagues:
A couple things to note about this. The permalink used here will default to whatever display you have set up as the report's default display. If you've defaulted to grid and chart then the grid and chart will show up when you follow this link, and if you have the default display set to XSLT then the XSLT display will be shown.
The default filters for the report will be used, so make sure that you're ok with everyone seeing the report exactly as you see it.
Also note that only people who have access to the report will be able to follow the link in your tweet, everyone else will get a message saying that they don't have access to the report. They also have to be inside your firewall unless your CUIC installation is exposed to the Internet. Regardless, the user will probably need to log in before they can see the report, unless they're already logged into the network.
Have fun!
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