Table specification syntax

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This section provides full details of the table specification syntax. In most cases, you can create tables without needing to understand the syntax, but for particularly complex tables, you can enter or edit the syntax directly, in the Table Syntax pane, the Filter Syntax pane or the Script pane in the New Variable, Edit Variable, or Edit Table Variable dialog boxes. You can also type expressions directly in the Edit Derived Category dialog box and the Create New Variable Based On dialog box.

For more information about writing scripts to generate tables, see the UNICOM Intelligence Developer Documentation Library (DDL).

Note on terminology

In this section, the terminology used is based on that in the Table Object Model. The following table relates a number of Table Object Model words and phrases to the equivalent features in the UNICOM Intelligence Reporter user interface.

Table object model	UNICOM Intelligence Reporter
Axis	The side or top of a table
Axis expression	Edits made to a variable
Element	A category in a variable, or one of the other items that can appear in a variable such as a mean, subtotal, and so on.
Special element	Term used specifically to refer to the non-categorical items in a variable, such as a mean, subtotal, and so on.
Concatenation	Adding multiple variables to the side or top of a table one after the other, without nesting.

See

Table and axis syntax

Element list syntax

Element syntax

Element property syntax

Languages (3-character codes) for the Change Language script snippet

Naming conventions

Function list