Getting Started
Report Notes
You can add notes to any report. Notes can include both text and graphics. You can use notes for various purposes, such as: Describing the report content and typical uses Explaining any calculated fields used on the report Providing instructions on ...
Quick Start Guide for Administrators
So you’ve just set up a trial, or purchased Mercury for your company. Thank you! Now what? Connect to Your Corporate Database(s) To use Mercury with your corporate data, you need to: Create one or more Connections to your corporate data sources. Each ...
Quick Start Guide for Users
Thank you for installing Mercury! Here you’ll find a quick introduction – what you see when you launch Mercury, and a few examples of how to run reports. When You Launch Mercury Depending on whether your organization already has Mercury, you’ll ...
Status Bar
The status bar is located at the bottom of the main window. The left side shows the status of your current (or most recent) action. The right side has a slider that makes the content of the main window larger or smaller. You can drag the slider or ...
Report Canvas
Report results appear in the main window to the right of the report-list. This region is called the "report canvas" or the "results area". You can open (i.e. run) as many reports as you like, including multiple runs of the same report with different ...
Report List
The Report List contains all the reports available to you. You can change its appearance in several ways. You can change how the list is presented To change the list appearance, use the small icons above the search box. Icon Description The pin ...
Ribbons
Ribbon Menus Mercury uses standard Microsoft-style ribbon menus for performing actions, specifying settings, and other application options. Some ribbons are always available; others may change depending on what you’re doing in Mercury at the time. ...
Mercury Overview
What is Mercury? Mercury is a general-purpose reporting and analysis tool that works with a variety of databases - for example: SQL Server, MySQL, Business Central (and other OData sources), CSV files, and others. Reporting and analysis are no longer ...