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SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP – What’s New In Reporting Services?

Robert M. Bruckner — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:30:00 GMT

The November CTP download is available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The public download is available here.

The feature pack download is now also available and includes Report Builder 3.0 as well as the RS add-ins for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.

The Data Platform Insider blog provides an overview of what's new in CTP release for SQL Server 2008 R2. If you are reading my blog, you are probably interested in knowing what’s specifically new compared to the previous August CTP in Reporting Services 2008 R2 November CTP:

Report Part Gallery
The ability for report items / data regions to be published to the report server and made available to other report authors to re-use. Report authors can publish and share these report components from either BIDS or Report Builder 3.0. Information workers can use Report Builder to mash these report components together into their own unique views by simple drag & drop. This includes notifications when a report part was updated on the report server in the meantime.
Shared Data Sets
Datasets can now be shared, stored, processed and cached externally from the report. Cache refresh plans let you cache reports or shared dataset query results on first use or from a schedule.
Enhanced SharePoint Integration for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010
This includes support for multiple SharePoint Zones, the SharePoint Universal Logging service, and Report Parts. We added a new SharePoint List data extension with query designer support. Furthermore, support for right-to-left text with Arabic and Hebrew was added in the SharePoint user interface.
New Data Visualization Report Items
Data Bars - each bar is scaled based on the maximum value of the immediate group (a default which can be adjusted).
Sparklines are data-intense, word-sized graphics. These visualizations make it possible for report consumers to quickly see things like trends over time at a glance.
Indicators are small icons that are often used to depict the status or trend for a given value. Setting up indicators based on a number of pre-configured sets is now very easy.
Furthermore, this CTP includes improvements to the Map wizard.
Enhanced Business Intelligence Development Studio
Support for 2008 and 2008 R2 versions of reports and report projects.
Aggregates of Aggregates
This enables report authors to nest RDL aggregate expressions inside other RDL aggregate expressions with unlimited nesting levels. For example, the expression =Avg(Sum(Sales, "Month"), "Year") would compute the average total monthly sales.
Other RDL Expression Language enhancements
Expect more details on many of these topics in separate blog postings:
- Writing expressions that take into account the current rendering format (=Globals!RenderFormat.Name)
- Naming pages, including naming of Excel worksheets for Excel export
- Group.DomainScope is quite useful for synchronizing data visually across different charts / sparklines and in tablix even if data is only available at disparate granularities.
- Read/Write report variables with automatic serialization/persistence; these are quite useful to avoid managing your own custom code variables.
- Rotating Text 270 Degrees, which is frequently needed for narrow column layouts.
- Dynamic page breaks, as well as resetting page number of page breaks
New 2010 SOAP Endpoint
While the existing 2005/2006 SOAP endpoints are still supported, the 2010 endpoint unifies support of both native & SharePoint integrated servers and adds functionality for new areas such as shared datasets, cache refresh plans, and report parts.
Improved Browser and Standards Mode Support

During the next weeks I plan to cover a lot more details regarding the areas listed above.

Enjoy!

I look forward to hearing your feedback on Reporting Services 2008 R2 November CTP in the dedicated MSDN discussion forum.

RS Maps with Spatial Data and Bing Maps

Robert M. Bruckner — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:25:00 GMT

SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP includes map visualization functionality in Reporting Services, as briefly described yesterday. In this posting, I’m going to provide an introduction of how to use spatial data and Bing Maps with Reporting Services Maps.

The attachment of this posting includes the final report so you can try it out yourself in Report Builder 3.0. The data source for the report is the Person.Address table in the AdventureWorks2008 sample database (download) which includes a geospatial column.

The report scenario is about showing the addresses of all your customers in the Los Angeles area. Accomplishing this requires just a few steps in Report Builder 3.0, and you don’t even need to write a single RDL expression! Btw, I will cover some of the new interesting spatial functions added to the RDL expression language in another posting.

Let’s start with the screenshot of the final map visualization of this report:

Steps:

Start Report Builder 3.0, and create a data source connection to the AdventureWorks2008 sample database (download).
Define a new dataset which includes geospatial data. For example:
SELECT [AddressID], [AddressLine1], [AddressLine2], [City],
[StateProvinceID], [PostalCode], [SpatialLocation]
FROM [AdventureWorks2008].[Person].[Address]
WHERE [City] = 'Los Angeles'
From the Report Builder 3.0 toolbar, insert a new map, using the map wizard. On the first page of the wizard, select to use a SQL Server spatial query.
On the second page of the wizard, select the dataset defined in step 2 (“Customers”).
When going to the third page of the wizard, you will notice that it automatically detected that the “SpatialLocation” column contains geospatial data and the wizard displays a cloud of points. Simply select “Add a Bing Maps background for this map view” and you will get to see a backdrop for the cloud of points of the Los Angeles area – this is because the map wizard analyzes the rows contained in the dataset and their geospatial location.
Since our specific dataset doesn’t contain further information about the customers, we select a basic marker map as visualization. If we had further data in our dataset, such as total sales amount, we could do a bubble map taking into account revenue.
In the final step of the map wizard we can chose to the marker type and display labels with each point. Note that all these settings can also be made / changed later through the map property dialogs, as well as the property grid in Report Builder. The map wizard is usually the quickest way to get started though.
We should now have a map on the design surface. You can further tweak settings of each map layer and map properties as desired.

Of course, you can do a lot more with Map and the geospatial data integration in the RDL expression language – I’ll cover this in upcoming postings.

SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP – What’s New In Reporting Services?

Robert M. Bruckner — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:59:00 GMT

The August CTP download is available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The public download is now also active here.

The Data Platform Insider blog provides an overview of what's new in this first public CTP release for SQL Server 2008 R2. If you are reading my blog, you are probably interested in knowing what’s new in Reporting Services 2008 R2, and already in August CTP:

Map and spatial data visualization
We provided sneak previews of this functionality at past conferences, including a popular “BI Power Hour” demo. Maps can be very powerful visualizations. They can consume and visualize geospatial and geometry data directly (as shown by Ed Katibah here), “regular” data, and combine multiple datasets using map layers. Maps can integrate ESRI shape files, as well as directly integrate with Bing Maps. More details in upcoming postings.
Report Builder 3.0
The most notable new Report Builder feature area already available in the August CTP is the so-called "server mode":
- An edit session concept enables support for embedded data source credentials, relative references, and subreport references when connected to a report server.
- Dataset results are cached when connected to a report server, which speeds up making layout changes and previewing the new report.
ATOM data feeds
Reports are now also available in the ATOM standard compliant format that can be consumed by Gemini and other tools.
Update: Teo Lachev takes an initial look at data feeds here.
AJAX Report Viewer
The August CTP provides a preview of some of the functionality that will be available in the stand-alone report viewer control with the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 release. You will notice a more fluid navigation experience in August CTP.
Report Manager
Report Manager received visual and functional improvements with SharePoint-like interaction and menus.
Update: Teo Lachev provides his take on report manager with screenshots here.
RDL Expression Language enhancements
We added direct geospatial data & function support, as well as three types of Lookup functions (Lookup, LookupSet, MultiLookup). More about this in upcoming postings.

On top of that, there are several more new Reporting Services and RDL features available in August CTP, including a few in combination with Gemini and SharePoint in a limited CTP program only. During the next weeks and months I plan to cover more details on the major areas listed above, and perhaps some of the other additions like report sections.

Enjoy!

I look forward to hearing your feedback on Reporting Services 2008 R2 August CTP in the dedicated new MSDN discussion forum.

Tablix – Multiple Subtotals Are Easy (aka Goodbye InScope)!

Robert M. Bruckner — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:45:00 GMT

Reporting Services 2005 with Matrix

In a matrix in Reporting Services 2005, accomplishing multiple or different subtotal calculations at the same grouping level was difficult, but possible. If you wanted to accomplish custom subtotal calculations in RS 2005, you may have heard about using the InScope function to dynamically determine the scope of a matrix cell at runtime. Let’s take a closer look at the following example with red numbers highlighting four different zones of the matrix to better understand the usecase:

1: Product category sales by each year. The matrix cell is within the scope of both, the ProdCat group as well as OrderYear group.
2: Product category sales aggregated across all years. The subtotal cell is within the scope of the ProdCat group, but outside the scope of the OrderYear group because it aggregates all years.
3: All product sales per each year. The subtotal cell is outside the scope of the ProdCat group (aggregating all products), but within the scope of the OrderYear group.
4: Overall grand total. The subtotal cell is outside both grouping scopes.

By default, the calculation defined in the matrix cell (1) in RS 2005 is performed the same way (but with different grouping scopes) in the subtotal cells (2, 3, 4).

There are however situation where for example, you want to calculate a running total of all product sales for each year (i.e. subtotal cell 3), and you want the average product category sales per year (i.e. subtotal cell 2). Or perhaps you only want drillthrough links to be active on individual matrix cells, but not on the subtotals.

To accomplish this in RS 2005, you would have to define the expression in the matrix cell using the following general pattern:

=iif(InScope("RowGroup"),
     iif(InScope("ColumnGroup"),
         "In Matrix Cell (1)",
         "In Subtotal of RowGroup (2)"),
     iif(InScope("ColumnGroup"),
         "In Subtotal of ColumnGroup (3)",
         "In Subtotal of entire Matrix (4)"))

Replace "In Matrix Cell (1)", "In Subtotal of RowGroup (2)", "In Subtotal of ColumnGroup (3)" and/or"In Subtotal of entire Matrix (4)" with the expressions or fields that you want.

Reporting Services 2008 with Tablix

With tablix in Reporting Services 2008, this scenario is significantly easier to accomplish. First, you get explicit cell definitions for each of those aggregation areas which removes the need for complex expressions and the usage of the InScope function:

In addition, you can define as many subtotals at every tablix grouping level as you like. For example, besides Sum(Sales), you could calculate a percentage of total revenue, or even year-over-year growth as shown in the following design surface screenshot.

The example above shows three different column subtotal calculations side-by-side under each OrderYear group instance:

Year Total
Year-over-Year growth percentage*
a KPI image that shows the growth trend (up/down/flat)*

Subtotals can use different styles as well as layout height or width. The example above also shows further aggregations such as the monthly trend shown as a nested sparkline chart*.

* Stay tuned - the underlying report, including RDL source, will be explained in an upcoming posting.

Multi-Player Gaming in RS (aka BI Power Hour 2008)

Robert M. Bruckner — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:25:00 GMT

At the traditional annual “BI Power Hour” sessions, several teams that contribute to the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform show off their technology in a fun way. It is about demonstrating, in perhaps unusual ways, of how business intelligence and various tools of the BI stack can be useful.

In past years, Reporting Services made a number of successful contributions to these events, such as Hangman, report manager as report, etch-a-sketch, mastermind, an executive dashboard (aka tic-tac-toe), and others.

Throughout last year, we showed several variations of a multi-player game that we shall call “Sea Battle”. The goal of the game is to sink all of your opponent ships (for example, a Battleship), before the opponent has a chance to find and sink your ships. The faster you click, the better your chances of winning :)

The overall theme of the report was about interesting new data visualization features in Reporting Services 2008. It uses charts with dynamic drill through actions, as well as data point tooltips. Furthermore, a small matrix acts essentially as a data-driven grid control next to the chart to show your own ship positions and the opponent’s hits and misses. The overall health status of the opponent's ships is shown using a gauge control with a custom pointer with an image to simulate a rising water level, as a ship sustains more and more hits.

Successfully sinking a ship is rewarded with a nice animated explosion. The really fun part is the multi-player aspect – we use a basic way of matching up two report users so they can play against each other by simply interacting with their report on a report server.

While Reporting Services was clearly not designed as a gaming platform, this demonstration of the product's flexibility brought out the competitive spirit in the SQL Server BI team. When I made an initial version available for limited beta-testing on an internal report server, the news spread quickly and we immediately had more than 50 people playing, and frantically clicking on the chart’s drill through links trying to win against their human opponents. This created quite a bit of load on the report server that is also used by hundreds of other users, and provided a nice stress test scenario :)

Enough said. I know you want to participate in the fun and play yourself!

Instructions to setup the demo on your own RS 2008 report server:

Unzip the attachment
Restore the database backup (SeaBattle.bak) on a SQL Server database server
Create a new Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 report project, add the shared data source (SeaBattle.rds), and the two reports of the zip file to the project
Publish the project to a RS 2008 report server
Use stored credentials on the shared data source.
I strongly recommend using stored credentials. That way, only the stored user needs access to the SeaBattle database and you won’t run into any potential integrated security double-hop issues.
In report manager, hide the “SeaBattle” report, so that users just see the “SeaBattle – Start new game” report. Don’t run the SeaBattle report directly; always use the start new game report.
I recommend playing the game using the http://MachineName/reportserver URL, not through report manager, if you want faster response time and better chances of winning :)
Better yet, you could quickly build a small Winforms application, using the Visual Studio 2008 ReportViewer control in remote mode and connect to the report server.

Hope you are going to enjoy this Power Hour demo!

Q&A and disclaimers:

Multi-player matching is really basic
The first user that starts the report establishes a new game, the second user that enters is automatically linked with the first user. Since there is no concept of game session implemented, you can end up with abandoned sessions if one of the players stops playing, or starts a new game.
Reporting Services was not designed as a gaming platform
This results in some limitations in the game design. Furthermore, the demo evolved over time with little bits added here and there – if I were to rebuild the backend database and the report from scratch, it would have a somewhat cleaner design.
Could this be built using a local mode report viewer control?
Yes, but it is probably an exercise for more advanced developers. Basically, you would build a local mode report viewer application with its own data retrieval, and just access the SeaBattle database on a common SQL Server.

SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Report Builder Update

Robert M. Bruckner — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:30:00 GMT

Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2008 is now available for download. The service pack is primarily a roll-up of Cumulative Updates 1, 2, and 3 and minor fixes made in response to requests reported through the SQL Server community.

While there are no new features in this service pack, a notable addition from a Reporting Services point of view is the ability to configure Click Once deployment to either launch Report Builder 1.0 or the updated Report Builder 2.0, directly from Report Manager (native mode) or SharePoint. If you run Reporting Services in SharePoint integrated mode, make sure to also install the updated RS add-in for SharePoint.

Furthermore, the April 2009 Feature Pack is now available and includes an updated version of Report Builder 2.0. You can get it either as Report Builder 2.0 stand-alone download, or as click once deployment from a Report Server with SQL Server 2008 SP1 applied.

Summary of download links:

Other download resources:

Enjoy!

Tablix – Stepped Layout

Robert M. Bruckner — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:35:00 GMT

Tablix enables the separation of data groupings and layout header areas. A stepped layout can help with horizontal spacing, because nested groups can then share the same horizontal space, which was previously not possible in a matrix layout. This provides very powerful layout capabilities, and is one among several new features introduced with Tablix.

A webcast about Report Authoring in Reporting Services 2008 by my esteemed colleague Carolyn Chau shows how to design a table or matrix with a stepped group layout by simply selecting an option in the table and matrix wizard.

You can accomplish the same effect by manually converting from a regular blocked to a stepped layout. For the example shown below:

right click the Component textbox – insert row – inside group above
copy the Component textbox description into the newly created header space
right click the Component textbox and select delete columns (delete columns only, not the associated group)
select the SubComponent textbox and set the left-padding to 20pt

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Dynamic Drilldown in Reports and Charts

Robert M. Bruckner — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:15:00 GMT

Just a quick post to reference two interesting reads about designing dynamic drilldown in reports:

Sean Boon blogged about an approach to implement drilldown on charts with Reporting Services when Analysis Services is used as the data source.
Chris Webb then created a great blog posting on how to implement drilldown for Analysis Services based reports in general.

Enjoy!

Tablix – The Matrix Revolution

Robert M. Bruckner — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:10:00 GMT

Tablix is the new underlying flexible data region and grouping structure introduced in Reporting Services 2008. Among other features, it enables asymmetric layouts, as demonstrated in the thumbnail screenshot below.

If you use a list, table, matrix, chart, gauge, or custom report item in RS 2008, you are really using a tablix beneath the covers. Ever since the first public revealing of tablix at TechEd conference in June 2007, and making it available shortly after in CTP 4 of SQL Server 2008, a lot has been said about tablix (e.g. see Teo Lachev’s: Tablix – The Crown Jewel posting).

As the developer who implemented tablix in the new on-demand report processing engine of Reporting Services 2008, I wanted to share my perspective on how report authors can get even more out of tablix. This is the first posting in a series of postings, focused on exploring several of the tablix capabilities. In one of the upcoming postings I will explain key building blocks of the report shown above.

So what’s the meaning of the word “tablix”?

Tablix = Table + Matrix

A tablix combines all the features of a table and a matrix. In addition, it adds new capabilities such as:

an unlimited number of (un)correlated side-by-side adjacent groups on rows and columns
more layout flexibility, such as stepped group layouts in addition to nested blocked layouts
subtotals have explicit cell definitions - no need to use InScope to determine the current scope dynamically
the matrix corner is now a grid corresponding to the row/column group structure

With that, you no longer have to determine upfront if you need a table or matrix (sometimes also called crosstab) layout. You can change the tablix layout on-the-fly as you refine the report design or adjust for new requirements later.

Report Surfer

Robert M. Bruckner — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:50:00 GMT

I wanted to give some props to MVP Grant Paisley who has setup a site called Report Surfer, where you can directly view, share, and download sample Reporting Services reports.

I met Grant a few months back when he visited Redmond. He was very interested in reports I had built for the RS 2005 chart whitepaper, as well as example reports from my recent blog postings. They are now also available in the report library.

The Report Surfer site runs RS 2008 and thereby supports old and new reports. One very nice aspect is that the current library of reports also includes our previously released “report packs”, which you can view directly on the site without the need to install anything. A free registration is required to use the site for uploading, sharing, and downloading reports.

The Ultimate Guide to Color Scales / Conditional Formatting

Robert M. Bruckner — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:35:00 GMT

I recently provided a tip to my Australian colleague David Lean to successfully solve a small report design challenge with tables and charts that use conditional formatting.

The specific goal was to dynamically calculate and assign a color shade so that the minimum value present in the data is shown red, the average value yellow, and the maximum value green, with automatically calculated red-yellow-green shades for numeric values in between.

As it turns out, Dave integrated and expanded this into a great four part blog post series on using conditional formatting and color scales in Reporting Services (applicable to both, RS 2005 and RS 2008):

Enjoy!

Report Performance Optimization Tips (Subreports, Drilldown)

Robert M. Bruckner — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:25:00 GMT

In a previous posting, I explained the new ExecutionLog2 view in Reporting Services 2008: how to utilize it to measure report execution performance, identify report candidates for optimizations, and verify the impact of the latter. I also included two tips at the bottom of that posting, that I want to call out explicitly as a separate posting.

Subreports

One of the aspects I usually investigate when optimizing reports is the usage of subreports. Subreports provide a convenient way to reuse report designs, but it may make sense to refactor the report design to lift the subreports contents into the main report. Not only does this frequently result in improved performance, it can also provide better control over rendering behavior.

Btw, this related blog posting explains how one can quickly find out which published reports reference subreports.

Splitting large drilldown reports into parameterized drillthrough reports

When reports use large datasets, I have sometimes seen the usage of drilldown group hierarchies (toggles) to provide an initial overview to the report consumer, and enable dynamic drilldown to interesting areas.

What may work really well for those kind of reports is to change the original report to only include data till e.g. the third level of drilldown (and thereby reduce the amount of data retrieved and processed by the initial report, and improve response time).

Then at the innermost drilldown level of the main report, create drillthrough actions with parameters based on the current group values to another report. The drillthrough target report provides further details and drilldown capabilities, but only has to retrieve a small subset of the original data.

Custom Report Item

Robert M. Bruckner — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:55:00 GMT

Custom Report Item in Reporting Services 2005

This server extensibility feature introduced in Reporting Services 2005 (RS 2005) provides the ability to develop custom report items for embedding in reports. Examples of resources available that provide insights into how one can build custom report item solutions include: documentation overview, sample, and a great MSDN magazine article by Teo Lachev.

Over time, several independent partners utilized this extensibility mechanism and developed nice 2005-based Custom Report Item (CRI) controls, such as Dundas Visualization Products for Reporting Services, various barcode controls, and even some that take RTF and draw it as image into reports.

Custom Report Item in Reporting Services 2008

RS 2008 introduces a new RenderingObjectModel and an on-demand paradigm for processing and rendering reports. Consequently, also the CRI runtime control interfaces and how the control interacts with the new on-demand RenderingObjectModel have changed. An updated CRI-Polygon sample is available for RS 2008.

Using 2005-based Custom Report Items in Reporting Services 2008

I have seen two common questions regarding the support of 2005 CRIs in RS 2008:

Q: What if you bought or developed a 2005-based CRI runtime control - can you run those old reports after upgrading your report server to RS 2008?

A: Yes, running 2005-based CRI runtime controls on a RS 2008 server is supported. Your old 2005-based reports will run on RS 2008 without modifications - however make sure to verify that the Web.config of your 2008 report server contains an assembly binding redirect for the Microsoft.ReportingServices.Interfaces.dll as specified in KB 955795.

Q: What about 2005-based CRI design time controls?

A: 2005-based CRI design time controls work with Business Intelligence Development Studio 2005 (BIDS 2005) only. You can continue to design reports with BIDS 2005 and deploy directly to your RS 2008 server with the 2005-based CRI runtime control installed.
For BIDS 2008 however, the CRI integration interfaces have changed, and you will need 2008-based CRI design controls to develop reports utilizing the full 2008 feature set (e.g. tablix) and 2008-based CRIs.

Additional information about upgrading a report with custom report items is provided in the documentation.

Special Case: Deploying 2005 Reports utilizing Dundas CRI controls to a RS 2008 Server

In short, your existing reports will run on RS 2008 without modifications. You may no longer need your 2005 CRI controls on the RS 2008 server in particular cases, as explained below.

With the acquisition of the data visualization products of Dundas Inc., reports utilizing 2005-based CRI controls from Dundas generally will be automatically upgraded on-the-fly into native 2008 charts and gauges in RS 2008. In that case, your old reports will run as native 2008 reports when deployed to a RS 2008 server.

If your 2005-based reports with Dundas CRIs utilize certain features, such as annotations or custom code, the reports won't be automatically converted into native RS 2008 charts/gauges, but instead remain 2005 reports that are executed in a transparent backwards-compatibility mode¹ of the processing engine in the RS 2008 server. In that case, or if you use the Dundas Maps or Dundas Calendar products, the reports will automatically run on the RS 2008 server, but you still need your 2005-based Dundas CRI runtime controls installed on the server.

Alternatively, Dundas is releasing several new 2008-based CRI design and runtime controls. You could upgrade your existing 2005 reports in BIDS (with the 2008 Dundas controls installed) to 2008 reports, utilize all the new 2008 features such as tablix, and then deploy them as 2008 RDLs to a RS 2008 server. Please contact Dundas directly, if you are interested in that option.

¹The related posting about the enhanced ExecutionLog2 in RS 2008 explains, among other topics, how an administrator can utilize the AdditionalInfo.ProcessingEngine value to determine whether an old report automatically upgraded to 2008, or if the report contains a 2005-based CRI and therefore is running in the transparent backwards-compatibility mode of the processing engine.

Happy New Year!

RDL 2008 Specification

Robert M. Bruckner — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:15:00 GMT

Our documentation team made the latest RDL specification available on the Reporting Services site: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/reporting.aspx

The 2008 RDL specification is available as XPS and as PDF document. Older versions of the RDL specifications are still available: 2005/01 and 2003/10.

Trendlines (Calculated Series) in Reporting Services Charts

Robert M. Bruckner — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:00:00 GMT

One of the new chart features in Reporting Services 2008 is the ability to add chart series calculated from another series. This is accomplished by right-clicking an existing series (data point value) and selecting "Add Calculated Series ..." from the popup menu.

You can choose from a variety of pre-defined and parameterized formulas for the derived chart series. This includes Bollinger bands, several types of moving average calculations, detrended price osciallator, mean, median, relative strength index, MACD, TRIX, and more. The attachment of this posting contains a small report (data are included in the report) that shows a simple moving average price trend line. The rendered chart is shown below.