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Column A must contain either ’Theme’, ‘Indicator’ or ‘IndicatorDate’.
Column B should contain the name of the theme, indicator or date you
want to display text for. Column C must contain ‘metatext’. Column D
should contain the text that you wish to appear in the report text box (or
text boxes in the case of a report published using the Double Map template
or Double Map Time Series template). The following image (Figure 133)
shows how this metatext would look in a text box in a report. Note that the
text box(es) are added to a report using the InstantAtlas Designer and that
their size and position is configurable. Note also that HTML can be used to
format metatext.
Figure 133
If your indicator names are not unique, you can address this by adding the
theme name in front of the indicator name in column B. Both must be
separated by a pipe symbol, e.g. ‘Theme 1|Male’.
For Flash dynamic reports it is possible to use a subset of html commands
to format metatext. The following tags are supported:
Anchor tag (<a>)
Bold tag (<b>)
Break tag (<br>)
Font tag (<font>)
Image tag (<img>)
Italic tag (<i>)
List item tag (<li>)
Paragraph tag (<p>)
Text format tag (<textformat>)
Underline tag (<u>)
E.6.2. Adding Indicator Display Metadata
It is possible to provide indicator display metadata that will allow define
how an indicator is displayed. This will allow you to set the following:
1. Precision
2. Data type
3. Custom legends
4. Chart axis minimum and maximum
5. Data table column aliases
6. Additional data table columns
Indicator display metadata are defined in the ‘Metadata’ worksheet and the
process for entering these is the same as for other metadata elements.
The example workbook contains some example indicator display metadata
In InstantAtlas HTML dynamic reports, adding data table columns for
an indicator overwrites all columns defined in the config.xml file.
Defining table column aliases is only possible through completely re-
defining the table columns.
In an InstantAtlas HTML dynamic report you can use any HTML
commands to style and format your metatext.