Configure WebFOCUS Visual Discovery
A few configuration options may be specified for WebFOCUS
Visual Discovery Workbench AE in its configuration file. This is
a file located in the directory where WebFOCUS Visual Discovery
AE was installed (typically c:/Program Files/WebFOCUS Visual Discovery
Workbench AE); the name will reflect the version of WebFOCUS Visual
Discovery AE that you purchased). The configuration file has the
suffix .config; it is named based on the version of WebFOCUS Visual
Discovery AE that you purchased (for example, PublisherApp.exe.config.
OfficeApp.exe.config, etc.). These options apply to WebFOCUS Visual
Discovery AE Server as well as client versions of WebFOCUS Visual
Discovery AE; in this case the parameters are in the web.config
file in the WebFOCUS Visual Discovery AE Server installation directory.
This file is formatted as XML.
These setting are in a section named appSettings. The options
are:
-
CommandTimeout. Some data sources, in particular
databases, will time out if they cannot complete a request in a
certain amount of time. This parameters sets what the time out interval
should be, in seconds. Change this if you are retrieving data from
a data source that can time out and your query takes longer than
the default time out interval. This parameter takes a numeric value,
giving the time out interval in seconds.
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SkipRowCount. WebFOCUS Visual Discovery AE tries to count
the number of rows that will be returned by a data source for use
in showing a progress bar. This boolean flag (true or false) may
be used to prevent this initial counting. For some data sources,
the counting operation may be expensive, and may be a cost that
you are willing to forgo.
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UseGenericGraphics. Some graphics accelerators have errors
which cause graphics displays to be corrupted in WebFOCUS Visual
Discovery AE. Setting this flat to true causes WebFOCUS Visual Discovery
AE to use an alternative implementation that is less prone to errors.
This only affects client versions of WebFOCUS Visual Discovery.
This is further described in this section.
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RollupCreateStrict, JoinCreateStrict. Edits to an existing
project may change the order in which data must be created by calculated
expression, table copy (join), or rollups so that prerequisites
are created before targets. By default, missing fields are ignored
when rollups and table copies are created, but this may lead to problems
in creating the project after an edit. If these settings are set
to true, these settings will require rollup and table copy creation
to be strict and require the existence of stats fields. Once successfully
loaded and resaved, the setting can be reverted to false, the default.
An example of an appSettings section is shown below:
<appSettings>
<add key=”CommandTimeout” value=”30”/>
<add key=”SkipRowCount” value=”false”/>
<add key=”UseGenericGraphics” value=”true”/>
<add key=”RollupCreateStrict” value=”true”/>
<add key=”JoinCreateStrict” value=”true”/>
</appSettings