{"id":11483,"date":"2021-10-15T12:18:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T11:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.instantatlas.com\/report-builder\/?page_id=11483"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:47:31","slug":"page-linking-and-importing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/page-linking-and-importing\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Linking and Importing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pages can be imported from or linked to other reports in your organization. This is accessed from the <strong>Pages &gt; Current page &gt; Import or link<\/strong> menu item.<\/p>\n<h3>Importing<\/h3>\n<p>When a page <strong>imports<\/strong> another report all the widgets are <em>copied from the source report at design-time<\/em> &#8211; i.e. at the point the report author presses the &#8220;Import&#8221; button. This gives a quick and easy way to create copies of reports or to allow many contributors to a single report. Once widgets have been imported they are <em>no longer linked<\/em> to the source report and can be edited or deleted as necessary.<\/p>\n<h3>Linking<\/h3>\n<p>When a page is <strong>linked<\/strong> to another report <em>all the widgets from the source report are imported at runtime<\/em> &#8211; i.e. when the report is viewed. Using this technique means that widgets still &#8220;belong&#8221; to the source report and cannot be edited directly in the target page. This gives a way of combining many reports into one whilst sharing the responsibility for updating those reports amongst a number of people. This does impose a slight performance penalty when the report is viewed since more than one design file has to be downloaded but this is normally insignificant.<\/p>\n<p>Whether importing or linking it is important that the <em>source<\/em> and <em>target<\/em> reports share data sources &#8211; for example <a href=\"\/report-builder\/data-catalog\/\">an InstantAtlas Data Catalog<\/a>. Combining reports that have different core layers or joined data will give unpredictable (and usually unwanted) results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pages can be imported from or linked to other reports in your organization. This is accessed from the Pages &gt; Current page &gt; Import or link menu item. Importing When a page imports another report all the widgets are copied from the source report at design-time &#8211; i.e. at the point the report author presses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11483","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.reports.esriuk.com\/report-builder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}