Reporting With WebFOCUS

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WebFOCUS is a complete information control system with comprehensive features for retrieving and analyzing data that enables you to create reports quickly and easily from real-time transactional systems, relational data warehouses, cubes, and any ERP or legacy source.


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WebFOCUS InfoAssist

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InfoAssist is a powerful report generation tool that enables business users to leverage state of the art ad hoc functionality. With InfoAssist, you can generate highly complex reports, charts, and documents from any enterprise information source without IT intervention. You can also analyze multiple reports and charts simultaneously and output report data in a variety of formats.



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InfoAssist Report, Chart, and Document

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InfoAssist Report

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InfoAssist Document

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Active Technologies

WebFOCUS Active Technologies reports and dashboards provide business intelligence (BI) for any computer or mobile device running a web browser. Active Technologies present data with a variety of interactive analytic capabilities in a single portable document, deliverable to any type of mobile device. Users of rich interactive applications created with Active Technologies can easily manipulate the data, intuitively explore information, and uncover critical trends and patterns using device-specific user interface characteristics and gestures for multi-touch screens.

With Active Technologies, you can quickly develop completely portable BI applications, deliver interactive reports and dashboards to any user, and reduce the load on the database and server systems by allowing users to work in disconnected mode. The built-in analytics include sorting, filtering, performing data calculations, charting, and much more.

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Developer Studio

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Developer Studio provides intuitive GUI tools that enable you to concentrate on interface design, business logic, and data manipulation.

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HTML Composer

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HTML Composer enables you to graphically create an HTML page that incorporates forms, reports, graphs, and web objects.



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HTML Composer and Visual Discovery Integration Features

The following features are available for HTML Composer users that license Visual Discovery.

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  • Values are VisDis Color By. The Values are VisDis Color By option has been added to the Parameters Properties and settings dialog box.
  • Preselecting Values. You can preselect values of a Visual Discovery control that display at run time, by adding the onInitialUpdate() function to the Client JavaScript tab of HTML Composer. When you run the HTML page, the values you preselected will display.
  • Passing a Parameter Between a Visual Discovery Control and a Report. You can pass a parameter between a Visual Discovery control and a report, so that when data is selected from the Visual Discovery control, the same data is displayed in the report on the same page.
  • Passing a Parameter Between a Report and a Visual Discovery Control. You can pass a parameter between a report and a Visual Discovery control, so that when data is selected in the report, the same data is displayed on a new page that contains the Visual Discovery control.
  • Chaining Into a Visual Discovery Control. You can chain into a Visual Discovery control using a parameterized procedure and a list box, double list box, or drop-down list. This allows you to select values from a list and the data correlating to that data will be displayed in the Visual Discovery control.
  • Excluding and Restoring Data. You can exclude and restore selected data in Visual Discovery controls by using the Visual Discovery Exclude and Visual Discovery Restore hyperlink actions. These actions are only available when a Visual Discovery control is present on an HTML page.


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Document Composer

Document Composer enables you to design reports, and to coordinate and distribute layouts made up of multiple reports and graphics in a single document.

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Report Painter

Report Painter provides you with many powerful reporting features that enable you to create and style complex reports. You can graphically paint the report on the Report Painter window, a graphical representation of the report page.

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Reporting Language

WebFOCUS is a complete information control system with comprehensive features for retrieving and analyzing data. It enables you to create reports quickly and easily. It also provides facilities for creating highly complex reports, but its strength lies in the simplicity of the request language.

The Reporting Server Release 8.0 Version 06 includes the following Release 7.7 Version 05 Reporting Language new features:

The Reporting Server Release 8.0 Version 05 includes the following Release 7.7 Version 05 Reporting Language new features:

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WebFOCUS Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)

WebFOCUS Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) enables you to view and quickly analyze data in order to make critical business decisions.

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