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title: "Report Elements"
slug: "report-elements"
updated: 2023-06-27T14:39:45Z
published: 2023-06-27T14:39:45Z
canonical: "docs.ancoresoft.com/report-elements"
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# Report Elements

## Intro

ancoreShare Extension allows you to add multiple different elements to your report for customizing and styling your reports according to your organizational requirements to **create pixel-perfect reports directly in Qlik Sense**.

You can add Qlik Sense objects from multiple sheets, text elements, and line elements. It supports all the different types of visualizations available in Qlik Sense. Besides this, you can also add visualizations from other Sense integrated extensions as well.

This section shows you how the adding of elements work and how to work with them:

- [Adding elements to report](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/docs/report-elements#adding-elements-to-report)
- [Element types](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/docs/report-elements#element-types)
- [Basic element properties](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/docs/report-elements#basic-element-properties)
- [Working with elements](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/docs/report-elements#working-with-elements) - copy, reorder and delete
- [Export file type](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/docs/report-elements#export-file-type)

| ## Adding elements to report To add Qlik objects and other elements to your report, perform the following steps. 1. On your Sense sheet, select the ancoreShare button to which you want to add the element. 2. On the **properties panel**, click **Report** **Elements** **>** **Add** **Element**. 3. Now you can choose and configure an element type. By default, the elements are displayed to the report one after another, top to bottom one below another in the order of adding them in the properties panel. **NOTE**: If you already have several elements in your report, you might have to scroll down to see the Add Element button, as it is always at the bottom of this menu section. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/18d7facc-a391-4796-9eeb-b1efbd1aaa20/Images/Documentation/add-elements.png) |
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You can create pixel-perfect reports by positioning and sizing each element precisely. To learn more about how to precisely position the elements on your report by combining various settings, see the [Positioning and Sizing Elements](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/ancoreshare-extension/docs/positioning-and-sizing-elements) section.

Here's a sample report with multiple elements. The settings on the properties panel correspond to the image on the left.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/18d7facc-a391-4796-9eeb-b1efbd1aaa20/Images/Documentation/sample-elements.png)

We recommend using the [Preview window](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/ancoreshare-extension/docs/preview-window) while working with elements. This will help you in viewing how the elements are being added to your report.

Best PracticesEven if you are planning to create a PPTX report, we recommend keeping the [export file type](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/docs/report-elements#export-file-type) to PDF while you are designing, to take advantage of all the benefits the preview window has. It will look exactly the same in PowerPoint when you later generate it as PPTX.

| ## Element types After adding an element you can choose one of the following types: ##### Regular Elements - **Object:** All Qlik Sense visualizations and extensions: - [Charts](/ancoreshare-extension/docs/qlik-object-charts) and objects like KPI or Text & Image, all in high-quality images. - [Tables](/ancoreshare-extension/docs/qlik-object-tables) and pivot tables, transformed to true data-driven tables with selectable text content on your report. - [**Text**](/ancoreshare-extension/docs/text-element)**:** Besides plain text, add anything dynamic with Sense expressions, like Dates, KPIs or selection data. - [**Line**](/ancoreshare-extension/docs/line-element)**:** Useful layout separators. ##### Special Elements - [**Table of Contents**](/ancoreshare-extension/docs/toc-element) (TOC): Any element of your report can displayed or not displayed in a TOC. - [**Cycle Start**](/ancoreshare-extension/docs/cycle-element) and [**Cycle End**](/ancoreshare-extension/docs/cycle-element): All elements between those are cycled/looped according to the values of a given field. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/18d7facc-a391-4796-9eeb-b1efbd1aaa20/Images/Documentation/image-1673804406316.png) |
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## Element properties

Once you chose an element, the corresponding properties are displayed in the **properties panel** on the right. You can use these properties to customize how the element is rendered on your report.

The following image shows the **properties panel** of each element menu box for the various types of elements:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/18d7facc-a391-4796-9eeb-b1efbd1aaa20/Images/Documentation/image-1687863020951.png)

NoteMany properties and menus are only visible, if certain settings are either enabled or disabled. Throughout the documentation you will see notes, when that is the case.

By default, chart-specific properties are displayed when you click **Object** on the element type. The Table-specific properties are displayed when you select and add a table from the Sense sheet.

The basic properties of all regular elements are:

#### Caption

By default, an element **C****aption** is generated according to the selected element type. You can rename this field to provide a meaningful caption that will help you in navigating through your report elements.

#### Calculation condition

Use the **Calculation Condition** field, to specify an expression to display the element. It works just like the [activation condition](/ancoreshare-extension/docs/activation-condition) but is specific to each element. You can specify the value as a calculated formula. Refer to the [Qlik documentation](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/sense/May2021/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Expressions/work-with-expression-editor.htm) to know more.

## Working with elements

For ease of use, you can copy/paste elements and reorder them at any time to change the report design.

| #### Copying element properties You can copy the settings for one element for styling another element. For example, you may want to apply the same chart style, line, or table style to another element of the same type. For this, click the copy icon corresponding to the element whose properties you want to reuse, and click the paste icon on the element where you want to copy this style. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/18d7facc-a391-4796-9eeb-b1efbd1aaa20/Images/Documentation/image-1674151677542.png) |
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| #### Reordering elements To quickly reorder elements on the report, use the drag options to move the elements up or down in the report. Remember that, reordering will only change the position of the element on the report, the other element properties for sizing and positioning will remain the same. See the [Positioning and Sizing Elements](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/ancoreshare-extension/docs/positioning-and-sizing-elements) section to understand how these settings work together. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/18d7facc-a391-4796-9eeb-b1efbd1aaa20/Images/Documentation/reordering%20elemnts.png) |

#### Deleting elements

At any time, you can click the **Delete** button to delete the element.

Optionally, right-click the element in the **properties** **panel** and click **Delete**.

| ![](https://cdn.document360.io/18d7facc-a391-4796-9eeb-b1efbd1aaa20/Images/Documentation/Deleting_chart.png) | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/18d7facc-a391-4796-9eeb-b1efbd1aaa20/Images/Documentation/deleting-element(2).png) |
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## Export file type

Before you execute the creation of your report, you can specify which file type should be generated. For this, select the relevant option at the top of the Report Elements section in the properties panel from the **Select Export Type** drop-down list.

Use the **Data Exports only** option to only download the data from your table objects.

![AS_Export-file-type](https://cdn.document360.io/18d7facc-a391-4796-9eeb-b1efbd1aaa20/Images/Documentation/AS_Export-file-type.png)

Best PracticeEven if you are planning to create a PPTX report, we recommend keeping the [export file type](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/docs/report-elements#export-file-type) to PDF while you are designing to take advantage of all the benefits the [**preview window**](/ancoreshare-extension/docs/preview-window) has. It will look exactly the same in PowerPoint when you later generate it as PPTX, aside from multi-page tables.  
  
If you have enabled [**Data Export Downloads**](/ancoreshare-extension/docs/data-export), we recommend keeping the [export file type](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/docs/report-elements#export-file-type) to Data Export only while you are designing to see only the data that you want to export quickly.

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##### Next Steps:

You can now proceed to configure properties for different element types:

- [Charts](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/ancoreshare-extension/docs/qlik-object-charts)
- [Tables](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/ancoreshare-extension/docs/qlik-object-tables)
- [Text](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/ancoreshare-extension/docs/text-element)
- [Line](https://docs.ancoresoft.com/ancoreshare-extension/docs/line-element)

## Related

- [Qlik Object - Charts](/qlik-object-charts.md)
- [Line Element](/line-element.md)
- [Text Element](/text-element.md)
- [Positioning and Sizing Elements](/positioning-and-sizing-elements.md)
- [Preview Window](/preview-window.md)