HP Intelligent Management Center Standard Software Platform - Manual (Page 526)

What are Report Parts?
Report objects displayed by themselves in a viewer—without the rest of the
report page—are referred to as Report Parts. More precisely, however,
Report Parts are objects that use hyperlinks to point from a home report
object to a destination object.
Report Parts work with the DHTML viewer subset of the Crystal Report
Viewers to expand the navigation possibilities within and between reports.
Report Part hyperlinks can link to other objects in the current report or to
objects in any other report. This linking lets you create a guided path through
your reports that shows only specific information at each stop along the path.
Viewing Report Parts instead of the whole page is a powerful feature that
allows you to seamlessly integrate reports into portal and wireless
applications.
Report Part Viewer
The Report Part Viewer is a viewer that lets you display Report Parts without
the rest of the report page. You can integrate this viewer into web applications
so that your users see only specific report objects without having to see the
rest of the report.
For the most part, you set up the Report Part hyperlinks in the Report
Designer, but you take advantage of their functionality in the report viewers.
What is navigation?
The navigation functionality in Crystal Reports lets you move to other report
object(s) in the same report, or to object(s) in another report—with a specified
data context. In this last case, the other report must be managed in
BusinessObjects Enterprise, or must be part of a stand-alone Report
Application Server environment. This navigation is available only in the
DHTML viewers (zero-client, server-side viewers). Its advantage is that you
can link directly from one object to another; the viewer passes the required
data context so you go to the object and data that is relevant.
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