The following is a glossary of terms used in REAS. The following is a primer on the basic report objects used to create and display output.
Report Object
Refers to any “object” used to create a report or a collection of reports. The objects consist of report definitions, report filters, report templates, report definition and report documents.
Report Definition
Represents a complete report that can be executed and produce an output dataset. This collection of objects defines the parameters for records to be included in the output and the data elements of those records to be included in the output. The definition consists of the following objects:
Report Filter - set of conditions to be applied to the source data to build the output dataset
Report Template Page By – set of attributes to be included in the output dataset to create pages of output
Report Template Layout – set of attributes and metrics to be included in the output dataset and the layout for display
Report Template Layout
Defines the attributes and metrics to be included in the output and the layout for the presentation of the output. Templates may be saved as part of a report definition or as a standalone template “object”. When defined a standalone template “object”, you must pair this with a standalone Report Filter to create an output dataset.
Report Filter
Defines the set of conditions applied to the source database to create the output dataset. Filters can be saved as part of a report definition or as a standalone filter “object”. This When defined a standalone “object”, you must pair this with a standalone Report Template to create an output dataset.
Output Dataset
The set of records that meet the conditions defined in the Report Filter. The dataset will contain the attributes and metrics defined in the Report Template.
Document
A collection of reports presented as one combined report. A document combines multiple reports into one analysis.
View Filter
A set of conditions applied to the output dataset to “view” only those records you wish to see. The output dataset will still contain all records but only “show” those records that meet the view filter conditions.
Attribute
A characteristic of the data being analyzed (e.g., Data Period or CBSA). These are used within filter conditions to filter data for output or within the output to categorize and aggregate metrics.
Metric
A point in time measurement used for analysis (e.g., HPI 1 Month Change).
Page By
A portion of the template that defines the attributes to be included in the output dataset. This set of attributes allows you separate the “view” of the output into pages based on the values of the attributes (e.g., you can add Tier to the Page By to view each tier as a page of data).
Prompt
A set of predefined parameters that may be added to a report. There are five types of prompts as follows:
Attribute Hierarchy prompt - provides a prompt to select values from a hierarchy of attributes. You may select individual values from any level of the hierarchy (e.g., a hierarchy prompt may be defined for the Geographic hierarchy; you may select individual states, drill from states to individual CBSA areas or drill on CBSA to select individual zip codes).
Attribute Element (Value) prompt - provides a prompt to select the values for a specific attribute. You may allow the element prompt to include all elements of the attribute (e.g., all CBSA codes) or a limited list of elements of the attribute (e.g., only those CBSA codes you specify to be included).
Metric Value prompt - provides a prompt to specify a cutoff point for loans based on the value of a metric (e.g., you may define a prompt to specify a value limit for loans to be included on a report based on their Balance; you specify the value and then include an operator to indicate greater than, less than, etc).