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Report Map

Description

Section titled “Description”

The Map rendered from the source geometry for a composed report. It is the equivalent of the matching Alteryx Reporting / Portfolio Composer tool and runs in the workflow engine (reportlab / matplotlib); the renderer is an approximation of the Alteryx output.

Source & Options

Section titled “Source & Options”
  • Source Table — the data feeding this report piece.
  • Output Table — the table the rendered snippet is written to.
  • Report order — the order of this piece within a composed report.
  • Width / Height — the rendered map size in pixels.

The Theme Legend

Section titled “The Theme Legend”

Where a layer is shaded by a value, the map draws one legend naming each band.

A converted Alteryx Report Map carries the band names the original map used — High, Above Average, Average, Below Average, Low on a typical themed map — and the legend prints those names. A map that names no bands labels each one with the range of values it covers instead.

Because only one legend is drawn, the names have to belong to one layer’s bands. The step stops and says so rather than printing a legend that reads correctly but names the wrong bands, when:

  • the shaded values do not reach every band the map names, so the names cannot be matched to the bands actually drawn;
  • only some of the bands are named;
  • the bands belong to more than one layer, or more than one layer is shaded.

Shading by individual value keeps naming each band after its own value, since that is what the band is.

Columns

Section titled “Columns”

The Columns tab maps the source columns available to the report piece.

Section titled “Related”