You can enhance the interactivity in your report by adding drill-through links to it using Jump to Report property. A drill-through link takes you to another report with more detail. Drill-through links appear as a hyperlink that you can click to move to a completely different report. Drill-through links are displayed when you preview your report.

What You Will Learn

This tutorial guides you through the steps to create a dashboard report.

• Add a Drill-Through Link
• Preview and Save Report

After you complete this tutorial, you will have a chart report where you can navigate to another report on clicking a series value on chart area.

Add the Drill-Through Link

1. From the Explorer , select the Chart data region.
2. Select Profit in the Data Fields area.
3. In the Properties pane, go to the Action group of properties and set Type to Jump to Report.
4. In the Jump to Report field that appears, select a report from the list that you want to jump to on clicking the plot of Profit. For example, we have selected 'Sales By Region' report available in the ActiveReports Server.   
5. Similarly, select Quantity in the Data Fields area.
6. Repeat steps 2 and 3. In the Jump to Report property, select 'Store Report'.

Preview and Save Report

1. Click Preview  to view your report in the final output.
2. Click a series on the plot area. You will see that you are navigated to that report.
3. Exit the preview mode by clicking Back on the top left side of the designer.
4. Switch to the File tab and click Save to open the Save dialog box. Enter the report name and click Save Report. You can also provide a description and a revision comment for the report.