Creating Enhanced Visualizations

This module introduces report formatting techniques which create enhanced visualizations using shapes, rectangles, images, and data regions. To support customized and enhanced reporting visualizations, this course requires a review of specific properties which support the control of displayed items in a report.

Lessons

• The Importance of Shapes in Reporting
• Enhanced Visualizations Using the Rectangle
• Control the Display of Report Items
• Creating Tiles in a Tablix

Lab : Creating Enhanced Visualizations

• Create Tiles in a Report with Rectangles
• Create Tiles in a Tablix with Text Boxes
• Create Enhanced Visualizations with Text Box Tiles, Tablix Tiles, and Tablixes

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the key features, uses, and approaches to using shapes in reporting.
• Have a more thorough understanding of the rectangle tool.
• Manipulate report item properties which have an impact on a report item’s display.
• Transform data regions by displaying tiles rather than text boxes.

Visual Basic

This module introduces the Microsoft Visual Basic programming language. The goal of this module is to make the programming language and its use meaningful to non-programmers. This module uses the course handbook, group discussions, worksheets, and reviews to not only introduce Visual Basic programming, but to also understand what the code is doing.

Lessons

• The Visual Basic Programming Language
• Visual Basic Language Components
• Decision Structures and Procedures

Lab : Working with Visual Basic

• Convert Expressions to Visual Basic Procedures
• Work with Value Types in Reports
• Work with Reference Types in Reports

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the key features of Visual Basic.
• Describe the Visual Basic language elements.
• Recognize Visual Basic statements and their purpose.
• Use decision structure to apply workflow logic.
• Convert business logic into Visual Basic code.