Formatting issues with reports when no results found

Question

Hi,
I have dashboard where in I have two reports, one displays images based on the claculation of fact and targets for the current week and the other report which displays just the fact data for the previous six weeks. We are displaying the KPI labels only for the first report and placed both the reports in the same section horizontally, to make it easy for comparision.
The problem araises when there is no data found for the first report, then the KPI labels will also not be displayed.
If we display the lables for the second report also, then it could be redundant.
Both the reports shuold have a single title.
Is there any way to design such a layout!!
Any immediate help would be appreciated.
Thanks!!
Vasantha.P

Answer 1

One thing you might do is this. Don't display the Title View in your reports. You can do this either by deleting the views from the Compound Layout or, within Edit Dashboard, by selecting only the view that contains the report. (Obviously, if your report has several view, you would need to choose the first route.)
Instead of the Title View, do this: In the Dashboard section which contains both reports, click on the "Rename" button. Type the name of that best illustrates both reports, check the "Display Section Heading" checkbox and click "OK."
Next, click the "Rename" button again and this time go in to the formatting section to format as required. (Note: After you check the checkbox, if you don't click "OK" right after, the check mark won't stick. So click "OK" and then go back in to do any formatting you wish.)
This method allows the user to collapse the section and still see what the section is about. This is good practice when you have several reports in one dashboard page. Even collapsing all the sections, you can see what is "inside" and expand the appropriate section.
HTH,