Patent ID: 8200618

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying a cross-tab intersection in a cross-tab; retrieving a data source for a structured report; collecting a context for the cross-tab intersection in the data source, wherein the context includes a data value; building an analysis specification, with a processor, based on the collected context by extracting a slicer from the structured report and adding the slicer to the analysis specification based upon the structured report having said slicer, extracting a member of one or more master-detail pages and adding the one or more master-detail pages to the analysis specification based upon the structured report having one or more master-detail pages, extracting a default measure from the structured report and adding the default measure to the analysis specification based upon the structured report having a default measure, and adding at least one child of the member to the analysis specification based upon the member being an innermost nested member; and analyzing, with an analysis tool, the cross-tab intersection using the analysis specification.