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Report Builder Overview

Turn your Giraffe project into a PDF presentation

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Written by Holly Conrad Smith
Updated over 3 months ago

What is the report builder?

The report builder empowers you to craft beautifully designed PDFs that showcase the full story of your project.

Whether you're highlighting key metrics, presenting data-driven insights, or combining visuals and commentary, you can easily add dynamic elements like Views, Analytics, images, and custom text. With an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, designing your report feels more like creating a visual story than compiling a document.

Every component can be positioned, styled, and customized with precision—giving you complete creative control without the need for design expertise. Built-in layout tools, smart alignment guides, and real-time editing make it simple to bring your vision to life, fast.

Add the Report Builder

Click the Plus sign in the app tool palette to access the app selector.

Search for Report Builder

Then, click "Add"

The Report Builder app icon is a piece of paper.

Interface

  1. Report Templates

  2. Layout (page size and orientation)

  3. Layers (element order)

  4. Insert Views

  5. Insert Analytics

  6. Text

  7. Attachments (Uploads)

  8. Insert Data Layer Legends

  9. Photos

  10. Elements

  11. Background

  12. Contextual toolbar

  13. Duplicate or Add a page

  14. Download

Tool Panel

The Report Builder tools swap from bottom to side depending on the expansion of the right panel.

Top Panel

The righthand top bar tools are always active.

  • Position (up/down layers, alignment)

  • Transparency

  • Duplicate

  • Lock

  • Delete

  • Copy style

The center top bar tooling updates based on your current selection.

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