Throughout our RapidAnalytics video series we have designed a report with various components, but we have always left the settings that determine the look of the report at their default values. In fact, there are very many of these settings, and it would be tedious to define them for every report and every component individually.

In this post I will show how you can use style bundles to define the look of your reports once and apply it to your reports with a single click.

In the last video we have created views. We will now use report "actions" to create virtual views: Each virtual view will use the same set of components, but different assignment of variables.

Up to now, the report we created in the RapidAnalytics video tutorial consisted of a single view: A collection of report components like charts, tables, etc. You can think of views as "pages" of your report or as "sub-reports". Now we are going to add more views between which the user can navigate by clicking on the navigation bar or by interacting with charts and tables.

If you follow our RapidAnalytics video series, you already know how to make simple reports with charts based on RapidMiner processes. This time, we spice that up a bit by defining interactions between report components to realize drill-downs etc.

In last week's post I have described how to create Web based dynamic charts out of RapidMiner processes. We now compose complex reports out of these charts. You will also learn how to define domains that make selecting parameters more comfortable for the report viewer, and help to ensure that only legal parameters are entered.

Next week we will see how interactions like drill-downs etc. can be defined.