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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2007
Alisson A. S. Sol, Cambridge, GB;
Luming Wang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Xiaohong Mark Yang, Sammamish, WA (US);
Patrick J. Baumgartner, Pullman, WA (US);
Peter Eberhardy, Seattle, WA (US);
Alisson A. S. Sol, Cambridge, GB;
Luming Wang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Xiaohong Mark Yang, Sammamish, WA (US);
Patrick J. Baumgartner, Pullman, WA (US);
Peter Eberhardy, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An interface for designing a report is provided, with elements of the report being disposed at intersections of report positions and configured to present information derived from data in a database. A formula is associated with one or more selected elements in the report to generate a result for the one or more selected elements. A tuple identifying the report positions of the one or more selected elements is associated and stored with the formula in a formula list associated with the report. The report is configured so that, when the report is generated, it is determined whether identifying report positions corresponding to an identified element in the report correspond with the tuple in the formula list. Upon determining the tuple corresponds with the identifying report positions for the identified element, the formula associated with the tuple is applied to generate the result.