{"id":11013,"date":"2017-09-11T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/report-builder-agol\/?page_id=11013"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:59:27","slug":"data-catalog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/data-catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can create a report from a data catalog using the <strong>New Repor<\/strong>t button on the Report Builder home page.<\/p>\n<p>You can use a Data Catalog as a data source for your report if you have a subscription for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis-marketplace\/listing\/products\/4e6659d71d8b47608c9e1a95fa6c07f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InstantAtlas Data Catalog<\/a> or if you are a customer of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esriuk.com\/en-gb\/arcgis\/products\/instantatlas\/products\/national-data-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Data Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An InstantAtlas Data Catalog is a specific way of simplifying the structuring, navigation and delivery of large volumes of statistics and indicators within ArcGIS Online. It is the way in which Esri UK delivers data for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esriuk.com\/en-gb\/arcgis\/products\/instantatlas\/products\/national-data-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Data Service<\/a> as a managed service.<\/p>\n<p>A data catalog consists of a master table that indexes indicator data stored across a series of feature services. The master table allows the indicators to be organised into a theme hierarchy, which then makes it much easier to find the indicator(s) that you are looking for in Report Builder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/test-help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2023\/07\/rb-2-6-dc-data.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11703\" src=\"https:\/\/test-help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2023\/07\/rb-2-6-dc-data.png\" alt=\"Data catalog data source date options\" width=\"406\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2023\/07\/rb-2-6-dc-data.png 406w, https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2023\/07\/rb-2-6-dc-data-300x287.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another advantage is that it makes it easy to set your widgets to pick up the latest X dates from the indicator time series, so that the widget will automatically update when new dates are added to the source data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/test-help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2023\/07\/rb-2-6-dc-dates.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11704\" src=\"https:\/\/test-help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2023\/07\/rb-2-6-dc-dates.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2023\/07\/rb-2-6-dc-dates.png 405w, https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2023\/07\/rb-2-6-dc-dates-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note<\/strong>: It is not recommended to create a report connected to a<span data-teams=\"true\"> data catalog source when none of the report widgets use <i>any indicators<\/i> from that source. This would likely cause performance issues. Please remove the data catalog data source in the <strong>Report<\/strong> menu under <strong>Data sources<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can create a report from a data catalog using the New Report button on the Report Builder home page. You can use a Data Catalog as a data source for your report if you have a subscription for InstantAtlas Data Catalog or if you are a customer of the National Data Service. 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