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For Flash reports, the columns that are displayed in the Data Table by

default are the three symbol columns with the legend colour, the notes icon

(metadata) and the magnifying glass (zoom to) as well as the columns for

the name of the base geography feature and the indicator value. You may

remove any of these. If you want to add these columns back in again,

however, make sure that the column names are written exactly as in

Figure 76.

Extra columns are typically added in order to display any associate values

that you have added to the data files for your report (please refer to section

‘E. The InstantAtlas Excel Data Manager’, sub-section ‘E.5.2. Entering

Associate Values’ for more information on associates). If you have no

associate values in the data files for your report, there is no point in adding

new columns to the table as there will be nothing to display in these

columns. If you do have associate values in your data files, you can add

columns to your table to display them. The name value for a column

should exactly match the name for the associate values in the data file(s)

for the report (except for confidence intervals – see below).

For example, Figure 77 shows an Excel workbook with two sets of

associate values for Indicator 1, the names of which are given in cells D5

and E5. If you add these columns to the data table in order to display

these associate values, the name values in the Designer for the columns

would have to be ‘count’ and ‘rank’ (i.e. exactly match the contents of cells

D5 and E5). The alias value is displayed as the column heading in the

report data table – you can enter any text you like for the alias.

Figure 77

Confidence intervals are a special case. These are called ‘ll’ and ‘ul’ in the

data files for dynamic reports. In the Designer, however, these columns

must be given name values of 'lowerLimit' and 'upperLimit' as shown in

Figure 76.

In reports published using an HTML template, the data table

contains two columns by default: the name of the base geography

feature (which includes the legend colour symbol and notes icon if

metadata links have been included in the data) and the indicator

value. Settings for having the map zoom to a selected feature

(replaces the magnifying glass) and for displaying the legend colour

in the table can be found in the ‘Properties’ section above the ‘Data

Columns’ section.