Snippets
Snippets are a dynamic and powerful feature within JustPerform that allow users to adapt their data presentation to specific needs. They go beyond simple data representation by offering structured and organized views, enabling comprehensive interaction with information. Snippets retrieve data from JustPerform in real-time, ensuring accuracy and eliminating manual updates. Users can customize content and design, adjust layouts, and choose visualization types to meet unique requirements. Snippets can be created for various components, including models, master data, and remote tables, and serve multiple purposes such as data input, reporting, visualization, and sharing.
Reporting Snippets: Grid-Based Reports
- Purpose: Designed primarily for data viewing. They provide a structured layout that allows users to easily peruse data.
- Benefits: The layout of report snippets can be adjusted at any time, enabling the creation of data subsets for in-depth analysis. They are particularly valuable for scenarios where data is meant to be read-only, offering a clear and organized representation of information.
Input Snippets: Data Entry Interfaces
- Purpose: Input sheet snippets function similarly to reports but with an exceptional capability - users can enter data directly into them.
- Benefits: Data entry through various sources is supported, and just like report snippets, the layout and field members can be dynamically adjusted to match specific needs. Moreover, data saved in input sheet snippets is immediately updated in the JustPerform system, ensuring real-time data accuracy. This bidirectional functionality allows for the conversion of reports into input sheets and vice versa.
Visual Snippets: Charts and Visualizations
- Purpose: Brings data to life through dynamic visuals. They allow users to visualize system data in various ways.
- Benefits: Visual snippets offer different types of data visualizations, including comparisons, trends, compositions, and indicators, each with numerous ways to represent data. These visuals make data interpretation more intuitive and actionable, helping users gain insights at a glance.
v25.12: OData Snippets
- Purpose: OData snippets function similarly to reports but without Columns. Additionally, a new field, Technical ID, has been introduced in OData snippets to enable exposing them as OData services.
- Benefits: OData snippets enable automated extraction of specific snippets without the need for manual export via API. This reduces dependency on UI-based interactions and allows consumers to fetch only the required snippets using filters and query options, such as $filter in OData. Additionally, OData snippets provide up-to-date data access directly from the source system.
Snippet Reusability and Parameters
Snippets offer high adaptability and reusability by allowing dynamic adjustments to content and design. Users can apply filters, sort data, style snippets to match branding, use formulas for calculations, and export data for further analysis. These features make snippets versatile for different scenarios, enabling users to interact with data, change layouts, and inspect information from multiple viewpoints. Snippets can also be saved locally for offline access and shared easily, supporting collaborative decision-making.