Sample report templates

The sample report templates that ship with IBM® Alphablox include a variety of commonly used report types, typically encountered in most businesses. Although some of these samples may be useful as they exist, these templates can also be used to help you learn how to develop your own custom report templates.

The sample templates included with IBM Alphablox target different types of reporting needs and are summarized here:
Sample Template Directory Name Description

Interactive Present Blox

InteractiveBlox

Sample reports: Interactive Analysis

Sample Allocation

SampleAllocation

Sample reports: Sales by Store (Sales Analysis)

Sample Report

SampleReport

Sample reports: Sample Report (Sales Analysis)

Sample Trending

SampleTrending

Sample reports: Sales Trend by Region (Sales Analysis)

Sales Variance

SampleVariance

Sample reports: Sales Variance (Variance Analysis)

Interactive Variance

VarianceQCC

Sample reports: Ad-Hoc Variance Analysis (Variance Analysis)

Sample Report Blox

SampleReportBlox

Sample Report Blox template

The sample templates will not address all of your particular user needs, but are useful for giving a jump start in learning about the power and flexibility of report templates as well as serving as great examples for learning how to code solutions for particular problems. While it is possible for you to deploy a copy of the sample Alphablox FastForward application with little modification, the power of the application framework and report templates is realized as you begin adding custom report templates tailored to your unique user needs. The next section explains how to create a simple report template.