Page Areas

Each Page on the Beyond 20/20 part of our site has the following features:

• Search
• Toolbar
• Actions
• Items Area

Search

When you first visit this site you will see a Search Box option.
If you already know part of the name of a report you wish to view; you may type this word or words into the Search Box and then click on the "Search" button to view a list of reports that contain these words in their title.

When you have selected a report or table to view it, each page has the following areas.

Each area is described below:

Toolbar

• The Toolbar looks like this
• Click CSO logo to leave Table Builder and go to the main Central Statistics Office website.
• Click Reports to view a list of available reports or tables
• Click Help to get more help on viewing and printing reports.

Actions

The actions pull down menu, contains the Select items to view menu and other options for viewing and sorting data. There is also options for printing.

Select items to view

In the Select items to view menu, click on a dimension to work with its items.

• When you select a dimension it is active and is highlighted with a large blacked-out arrow pointer
• Completed dimensions are marked with a checkmark. A dimension is completed when it has some items selected. You can always return to a completed dimension and change the item selection. If you clear all the items in a dimension, the first item in the item list is selected by default.

Remaining actions:

• Click on table icon to view your report as a multidimensional table.
• Click on chart icon to view your report as a graph.
• Other options allow the data to be sorted, downloading in different file formats and printing.

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Items area

• When a dimension is selected from the Select items to view menu, by clicking on it, the items within a dimension are displayed.
  
  
  
  Figure 2: The Items Area for the population variable.

To choose the items that make up a dimension:

• Select or clear the checkboxes beside the items.
• If folders are present, they represent groups. Click on a folder to see the group members.

  Choose a selection method:

• Single item— Select the checkboxes for all the items you want to have in your Table. Single item is the default selection method.
• Range— Select two checkboxes to select both items and all the items in between them. (After you have selected a range the selection method reverts to single item.)
• Levels are represented in the item list by folders. Click the folders to see the items that are on each level. (The level option only appears if at least one folder is present.)
• Choose Select level to select all the items on that level. Choose Clear level to deselect all the items on that level.
• To move on to another dimension:
• Select another dimension name from the Select items to view menu.

Items Search Box

• If there are more than 32 items to be listed, to help you to search for specific items; a Search Box will appear:
• Enter a word or phrase in the search box. (dimensions with few items may not have a search box.)
• To limit the search— that is, to perform an 'AND' search— enter two or more words separated by a space, a comma and a space, or the word 'and' surrounded by spaces. Only those items that contain all the words will be found.
• Click Show all to clear the search box and show all the items in the dimension.

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