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Filtering Your Report

Within each report there are various ways to either filter the data sets or drill down deeper to get more detail about a specific report module. Before you can do anything, you must set your reporting filters.

Depending on the report you're viewing the set of filters may be different, but they all generally work the same.

Click into the date fields to set your time frame for the report. Note that reports are aggregated on a nightly basis; thus, report data us current through the prior day's activity.

When you click the arrow on each of the dropdowns you'll see the list of variables for that data type. Each will be selected by default. Unselect any that you would like to see removed from the data displayed within the report. Remember, these changes will impact the data in each subsequent tab. After a filter has a been applied, you'll notice a erase icon appears when you hover near the filter again. Clicking this will restore the filter to its default state. 

See more about icons used throughout the Power BI reports below.

Icon Guide

 Print. Users can print or save a report as a PDF. Some graphs will require the the background setting to be turned on to display like it does in the report (i.e. heat maps). If a PDF is trying to be added to a PowerPoint, it can be dragged and dropped. If a PDF is being added to a Word document then it needs to be opened in word to display.

- Clear selections. Used with filters; when clicked, the eraser icon will remove and filters setup by the user and revert the report to its default selections.

- Focus mode. Available for most report modules, when clicked focus mode will all the module to take up the entire screen. To exit focus mode, click Back to Report in the top-left corner of the screen.

 - Drill mode. The ability to use drill mode varies by module. Whether or not you can drill up or down with the data depends on at which level your are currently viewing that data. The data hierarchies for reports are Month, Quarter, and Year.

• Selecting the  allows you to move one hierarchy level up. For example, if the data you're viewing is reported by month, clicking this icon will allow you to view it by quarter.
• Clicking on    takes you to the next level down for the hierarchy. An example of this is if you're looking at data reported by year, clicking the double down arrows will display the data by quarter.
• Clicking on  will add an additional hierarchy level to the current view. If a chart displays yearly data, then clicking on will display yearly and quarterly data.
• Clicking on  provides an option to drill down one field at a time by selecting a visual element. To use this feature, click on the down arrow in the module you're viewing, then click on the data point you'd like to drill down into.

- More options. Clicked the ellipses allows you to see additional options for interacting with a module. See more options below.

- Clicking Export data allows you to view the data in an Excel spreadsheet or CSV.

- Using the Show as a table option will alter the view to include the typical module, but it will also include that data formatted as a table for easy reading.

• - Switch to vertical layout. If you're using the Show as a table option, the Switch icon will become available. This allows you to view the table to the right of the original graph or chart instead of below it.

- Spotlight allows you to bring the report module to the foreground. When using Spotlight mode all other modules of the report are blurred out, allowing you to bring attention to the module of importance.

- Link to data. This icon allows you to navigate directly to the details page with the respective section of Aimbase for a record being reported on when clicked.

The reports also feature a Drill through option. On certain types of graphs, users have the ability to right-click on a visual element. By hovering over Drill through and then selecting the next available option, the report will take you to a more focused page to get details about the data relating to the visual element selected.