Because Everyone Makes Decisions InfoAssist Topics and Demonstration Jeff Winters, Branch Technical Specialist

WebFOCUS USF User Meeting  InfoAssist Topics  ‘Coordinated’ Dashboards  Dashboards with ‘chained’ filters  Output Target Window setting  Accordion Reports  Freezing Titles  Counting and Summing Techniques  Active Report HTML5 Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 2

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 3 WebFOCUS USF User Meeting ‘Coordinated’ Dashboards You may choose one field for your ‘coordinated’ field. It coordinates the whole dashboard and a pull down list box is automatically created to filter the dashboard. This only works with Active reports (HTML, Flash and PDF), and can be ed.

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 4 WebFOCUS USF User Meeting Dashboards with ‘chained’ filters You may insert any number of controls to filter the dashboard based on fields in the reports/charts. Open the ‘Properties’ of the control to set the field and the cascades (chains). This only works with Active reports (HTML, Flash and PDF), and can be ed.

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 5 WebFOCUS USF User Meeting Dashboards with ‘chained’ filters

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 6 WebFOCUS USF User Meeting Output Target Window setting Click on the IA icon in the upper left and select Options. New Window will launch the report output into a new window as opposed to a new tab in the existing frame. This is a cleaner approach and less confusing.

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 7 WebFOCUS USF User Meeting Accordion Reports Accordion button is on Format tab. Creates automatic roll ups with drill downs through all the sort levels. Only works with HTML output.

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 8 WebFOCUS USF User Meeting Freezing Titles Freeze button is on Format tab. Freezes the column titles so a user can scroll through the output with the titles frozen in place. Only works with HTML output.

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 9 WebFOCUS USF User Meeting Counting and Summing Techniques  Summing Technique  Can DEFINE specific ‘buckets’ for roll ups  PartTimeStaff = IF ACCTD EQ ' Part-time Staff' THEN CURRENT_MONTH_ACTIVITY ELSE 0

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 10 WebFOCUS USF User Meeting Counting and Summing Techniques  Counting Technique  Can DEFINE specific ‘buckets’ for counts  MALES = IF GENDER EQ 'Male' THEN 1 ELSE 0  FEMALES = IF GENDER EQ ‘Female’ THEN 1 ELSE 0

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 11 WebFOCUS USF User Meeting Active Report HTML5  HTML5  Fifth revision of the HTML standard  Extended multimedia support  Supported in all current browsers, including Safari  Supported in the WebFOCUS Reporting Server  Not available in the client (InfoAssist)  Can edit code for Active Report to use HTML5  Add into stylesheet:  TYPE=REPORT,ARGRAPHENGINE=JSFUSION,$  Cannot then open in InfoAssist

Copyright 2007, Information Builders. Slide 12 WebFOCUS USF User Meeting Questions? The End Questions? Thank you!