WebFOCUS for the layman or “Yes WE can !!!!” Steve Simon State Street Corporation

Who and what is our audience? Business Analyst to Programmer : How can I create a report that shows our total assets to liabilities and order it by department? Programmer to Business Analyst: Create a module that uses an instance of a class and link it to…..

This hour is dedicated to the business analyst and beginner WebFOCUS hero We shall be keeping things simple. This presentation assumes that you are a beginner and have the most sincere wish to become acquainted with the “wonders” of WebFOCUS. Doing things yourself should help prevent encounters with those pesky programmers whose standard line is “IMPOSSIBLE”.

What we shall examine during this hour Defining business requirements. Translate requirements to simple design. Translate simple design to simple code. Reaping the benefits.

What we shall examine during this hour Easy data adapter creation Easy synonym creation. Creating simple, efficient & effective reports. No headache tablets required

Excel SQL Server SQL Server Access Code Master Synonym Data Adapter How do the parts fit together? How do the parts fit together?

What we shall examine during this hour Microsoft Excel data sources

How do we get at our Excel data

OK And then the usual

So where do we go from here?

Why WebFOCUS of course !!

Implementing the adapter Implementing the adapter

WebFOCUSExcel ‘Garden hose’ Adapter

Creating the synonym

Our master file and FOCUS access file

Demo 1

Demo 2

Cloning a report with WebFOCUS makes your investment worth every cent. Cloning a report with WebFOCUS makes your investment worth every cent.

Demo 3

Requesting a data subset

TABLE FILE INFILE$ SUM SALES BY STORENO WHERE STORENO IN FILE STORENOS ON TABLE SUBHEAD "Store Sales World Wide" HEADING "My Store Sales" FOOTING TABLE FILE INFILE$ SUM SALES BY STORENO WHERE STORENO IN FILE STORENOS ON TABLE SUBHEAD "Store Sales World Wide" HEADING "My Store Sales" FOOTING

Demo 4

During this hour we have Looked at WebFOCUS from a layman’s view. Created simple but very powerful reports. We have seen how we can limit what we wish to report by using the IN FILE technique.

During this hour we have We have seen how to access an Excel spreadsheet through a (Data Source) DSN. We have completed all this in under 45 minutes. We have seen how to create data adapters and synonyms. We have seen how we may clone a new report with the change of a few lines via the TED editor.

Which really goes to prove that WebFOCUS for the layman is not really a major challenge, AND more importantly… Which really goes to prove that WebFOCUS for the layman is not really a major challenge, AND more importantly…

“Yes WE can do it!!!!” Thank you! Please remember to fill in your survey Steve Simon State Street Corporation

Questions!!!