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All training materials are available on the Izenda Reports site at no charge. The presentations and lessons assume the availability of a working copy of Izenda Reports connected to a database containing both text and numerical data. You may print and re-distribute these materials to any users within the organization or company that licenses Izenda Reports.

The training walks through the features available in the various tabs of the Izenda Report Designer in order to familiarize the users with the options available:

Here you can select the data sources (tables and views) to use in your report. There are two ways to view this.

* **Basic:** The basic view of the data sources tab will let you choose from a list of recent data sources or choose one data source from a list.

* **Advanced:** This view will let you choose any number of data sources and define their relationships. This acts as an SQL join would.

Here you can select how many records to display, as well as define which data you wish to be included in your report. Here is a list of controls and their descriptions.

* **Advanced Field Settings:** Learn more about advanced field settings [[here]]

* **Add Subtotals:** Creates a total line between each report and highlights the value in bold

Here you can define a new set of data separate from the field list you selected that can act as a synopsis of your data. It is displayed above the table you defined on the Fields tab on the report viewer. Identical to the fields tab with a few exceptions.

* No arithmetic checkbox

* **Show Deltas:** shows the changes in your data as a percentage (handy for quarterly report summaries)

You can define a chart to use here from a list of Izenda-supported charts. Selecting a chart will update the settings form directly below, which can be filled out with labels and other options. The selectable chart types are:

* **Title::** Used to add a title to your chart that is displayed in bold.

* **Records:** Determines how many records of your data will be displayed in the chart.

* **Scale %:** Scales the chart's height by the input percentage. (All but visualizations)

Applies one or more gauge controls to your report that can give useful information about min/average/max load capacity and other magnitude-based data.

* **Title:** Adds a title to the chart displayed in bold above all the gauges.

* **Records:** The amount of records to be used for this chart. Unlike in regular charts, this will add a new gauge for each record and is capped at twelve.

* [See An Example](http://www.izenda.com/bi/ReportViewer.aspx?rn=Human+Resources)

####Filters Tab