Developing Active Dashboards With PDF Painter Cia Kessler Curriculum Designer June 2008

Understanding Active Dashboards What is an Active Report? WebFOCUS Active Reports “AHTML” were developed to enhance off-line reporting capabilities. Written in Java Script When you use an Active Report you can: Perform asynchronous data analysis on reports when not connected to the internet An Active Report is self-contained – it contains all the functions and data necessary for analysis

Understanding Active Dashboards Using Active Panels Bundle multiple Active Reports along a common sort field Coordinate the reports on a common theme or type Active panels can be filtered on a common criteria controlled by a drop-down at the top of the Active Report

Understanding Active Dashboards Include Multiple Visualization Scenarios When you use an Active Dashboard you can combine multiple types of visualization schemes: Graphs - pie charts, line graphs and bar graphs Tabular reports Pivot tables

Understanding Active Dashboards Include Multiple Visualization Scenarios Navigation among schemes is available via tabs at the top of the page:

Building an Active Dashboard Overview of Design Steps Report Design: All Active Reports to be included in Active Dashboard must have the same FIRST BY FIELD This field should be VISIBLE (not hidden or NOPRINT) Output type should be the same

Building an Active Dashboard Overview of Design Steps Compound Document Design: PDF Layout Painter set COORDINATE REPORT to ON, Output format to ACTIVE REPORT

Building an Active Dashboard Overview of Design Steps Layout: Position Active Reports on pages

Live Demo – Building an Active Dashboard

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