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Figure 72

You will notice that some text components contain dynamic variables

enclosed with ${}. Any text that is not enclosed in ${} is static. Dynamic

variables (along with the logic tests discussed below) do bring a lot of

flexibility to the look and feel of reports.

Figure 72 shows the properties for the Title component in a Single Map

Flash template. Clearly, the title will not be displayed in the report as

${themeName} >> ${indicatorName} ${notEmpty(date, '>> ')} ${date}

${notEmpty(filterName, '>> Filter: ')} ${filterName} ${notEmpty(filterValue,

'>> ')} ${filterValue}.

Rather, it might be displayed as shown in Figure 73.

Figure 73

You can see that in this case, themeName resolves as ‘Social deprivation’,

indicatorName as ‘% of population unemployed’, date as ‘2005’, filterName

as ‘Zones’ and filterValue as ‘Edinburgh South’.

You can edit the static text and can also add and delete dynamic variables.

Right click in the ‘Text’ box of the dialog to view the list of dynamic

variables available (Figure 74).

Figure 74

In reports published using an HTML template, dynamic text can also

be placed in the title bars of the components or in the table column

headers.