# Make a report

Publish / report

render a report, document, dashboard, chart or map

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/make-a-report>

## Status

A feature, not a step.

It lives in Brightfield's view. [crates/brightfield-report/src/lib.rs in brightfield at 0a8362e](https://github.com/meridian-online/brightfield/blob/0a8362efd79a/crates/brightfield-report/src/lib.rs)

## Variants

- Run a ready-made analysis report: Produce a pre-formatted report from a vendor dataset or a stored analysis.
- [Render a chart to a file](https://meridian.online/operations/make-a-report/render-a-chart-to-a-file): Draw the rows as a bar, line or other chart and save it as an image or report part.
- Build a report from parts and render it: Assemble text, tables, images and layout pieces into a report and write it out as HTML, PDF or an office file.
- Render a map: Draw spatial rows as a layered or thematic map with a legend and scale.
- Style a table for display: Format the rows as a styled display table, or write them through a text template.
- [Fill a report template designed elsewhere](https://meridian.online/operations/make-a-report/fill-a-report-template-designed-elsewhere): Run rows through a report definition made in a separate report designer and render the output.

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 86.2% of 312 rows (exact class, version 2).

- Alteryx Designer: [`Allocate Report`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/demographic-analysis/allocate-report-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Image`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/image-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Interactive Chart`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/interactive-chart-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Layout`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/layout-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Map Legend Builder`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/map-legend-builder-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Map Legend Splitter`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/map-legend-splitter-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Overlay`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/overlay-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Profile Comparison Report`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/behavior-analysis/profile-comparison-report-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Profile Detail Report`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/behavior-analysis/profile-detail-report-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Profile Rank Report`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/behavior-analysis/profile-rank-report-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Render`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/render-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Report Footer`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/report-footer-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Report Header`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/report-header-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Report Map`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/report-map-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Report Text`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/report-text-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Table`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/reporting/table-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Alteryx Designer: [`Visual Layout`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/laboratory/visual-layout-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Image View`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*u9T7eNBbg9e_h6yY?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`KNIME HTML/PDF Writer (legacy) (extension)`](https://api.hub.knime.com/extensions/org.knime.features.ext.birt) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`KNIME Reporting Runtime (BIRT) (extension)`](https://api.hub.knime.com/extensions/org.knime.features.reporting.runtime) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Report Concatenate`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*_VNMyeyN5whE3WGt?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Report Concatenate (Table)`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*othkg-yRIumHynRP?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Report HTML Writer`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*DG2z_jxJzyTOX5jD?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Report Loop End`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*oHExK1qPY2BKSnni?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Report PDF Writer`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*OZmmSUQCCH4Gts3Y?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Report Page Break`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*jvqxvkrTZTUwHlzr?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Report Template Creator`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*U-McXA3KhilJ6333?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Text View`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*0bXRjbSBiNWN_xB2?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Templating exporter`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/exporting#templating-exporter) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`Pentaho Reporting Output`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Polars: [`DataFrame.style`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/dataframe/style.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tBarChart`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/chart/chart-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tDqReportRun`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/reporting/reporting-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tJasperOutput`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/jasper/jasper-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tJasperOutputExec`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/jasper/jasper-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tLineChart`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/chart/chart-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- VisiData: [`svg (saver)`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/features/canvas_save_svg.py#L57) (read 2026-09-23)