Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

John Herschel Vulner

Christopher Alan Hays

Robert M Bruckner

Justin Evan Schneider

Anca Gentiana Coman

Ramy Saroufim

Jonathan Christian Ludwig

According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which is stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to receive a request for result data from a requestor and determine queries to create the result data. The processor may determine a subset of a data set based on the queries. The subset of the data set may be displayed in small multiples by the requestor. The processor may output the subset of the data set as the result data to the requestor. In some examples, the processor may receive a request for additional result data from the requestor. The processor may determine a second subset of the data set to be displayed in the small multiples and output the second subset of the data set as the additional result data to the requestor.

Determination of result data for small multiples based on subsets of a data set

A computer-implemented method for generating a report from a report definition specifying a plurality of data scopes for a dataset includes interpreting, with a processor, a report definition for the report, the report definition comprising a calculation expression for populating a unit of the report, the calculation expression comprising a data aggregation operation, the data aggregation operation comprising an originating reference to a further data scope, accessing a memory coupled to the processor to obtain data from the dataset for respective subsets of the dataset corresponding with the further data scope, determining, with the processor, an output value for the calculation expression in accordance with the obtained data and the data aggregation operation, and rendering the report based on the output value.

Data scope origination within aggregation operations

Architecture which provides that certain data-bound objects in the report can be configured by the report author to use data from a specific query result rather than take data from the containing data bound object. The report author defines a relationship between the data in the contained object and the data in the container, allowing instances of the descendant object to be correlated with instances of the ancestor object. This relationship can be either explicit with join conditions or implicit due to an intrinsic hierarchical relationship between the query results.

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