The Row Notes function lets you add comments on your reports. Since a Row Note automatically links to a particular member combination, you can have a different Row Note for each page member. A classic use case of Row Notes has us including them in a variance report. With help of Row Notes, you can add comments to each variance line item.
Let’s take a look at how it works!
It’s a three-step process:
Step 1
Add a Row Note in Design Mode.
Step 2
Enter comments in Data Entry Mode.
Step 3
View your report in Report Mode.
Besides seeing comments on your report, another benefit of using Row Notes is that it’s page member-specific - meaning that when you change your page member, you will have a fresh set of Row Notes.
You are looking at the month of January and its corresponding Row Note.
When we change the page member to the next month, we see a fresh Row Note.
Cell Comments vs. Row Notes
You might be wondering whether you should use Cell Comments or Row Notes in your reports. For one thing, you add Cell Comments on your reports directly.
And unlike Row Notes, which are embedded in your report, Cell Comments only show up when you hover on a cell.
Tell us if you will use Row Notes - and in which types of reports you’ll use them!
