Drill down appears to have been lost with the new Report transformation. I found drill down of reports very useful. It would be great it the removal was only short term.
Also I do wonder if combining the Report transformation edit screen and “Figures” edit screen would further simplify report definition. A possibility would be to
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Split the Report Transformation edit screen into an upper an lower scrollable panels.
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The top panel showing the current Report Transformation edit screen
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When a cell is clicked on in the top panel, the bottom panel showing the current “Figure” edit screen.
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The bottom “Figure” edit screen would need the ability combine (add) the existing “Figure” entries as is currently done in a Report transformation cell definition.
Essentially what is suggested is
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elimination of a user maintained reference (name or coordinate entry) from cell location to cell definition
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and replace it with an software development environment context sensitive cell edit panel.
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creating an interface analogous to a spread sheet with a formula entry bar