In InfoAssist, you can create content, including reports, charts, and dashboards that leverage the interactive capabilities of In-Document Analytics. Enabling this option provides your users with the ability to interact with and modify the content you created for their own analysis.
Note: If you use the Designer style, you will only be able to select the AHTML output format.
How to Enable In-Document Analytics in InfoAssist
As of Release 8206, new output formats have been added to enhance your experience with select self-service products. For example, when working with InfoMini at run time via InfoAssist, you can select an output format for your content. Depending on the options that are enabled in the Administration Console, you may have access to two new formats: HTML Analytic Document (formerly known as AHTML) and PDF Analytic Document (formerly known as APDF).
In-Document Analytics (IDA) provides an interactive interface that allows you to generate real-time, dynamic reports, charts, and dashboards. When working in InfoAssist, you can set the output format to HTML Analytic Document format or PDF Analytic Document format, which will enable you to interact with your content. You can also change options on the Analytic Document Options dialog box. You can use the following integration points to get the full picture of the changes that display as of Release 8206:
In Document mode, you can:
A blank InfoAssist canvas in Document mode is shown in the following image.
You can build new documents by accessing Document mode from the InfoAssist splash screen.
You can create customized report outputs in InfoAssist. The standard output formats, which are found in the Format group on the Home tab, include: HTML, HTML Analytic Document, PDF, PDF Analytic Document, Excel, and PowerPoint. For charts, HTML5 is the default output format. For reports, you can also create the following custom report output formats from the Navigation group on the Format tab, including: Table, Table of Contents, Freeze, Pages on Demand, and OLAP.
You can use the following procedures to create a basic report in the WebFOCUS Home Page and InfoAssist.
After you have signed in to WebFOCUS, you can work with an existing folder, or create a new folder in the WebFOCUS Home Page to store your reports.
A basic report is shown in the following image.
Designing documents in Document mode allows you to add text, images, active form controls, reports, and charts to create documents that can be used to generate presentation-ready reports based on your data.
Document mode combines the features of report building with the ability to style and present customized documents.
You can use the following custom features when creating reports.
You can apply custom styling to specific areas of a report. When creating a report, you can perform the following styling customization.
You can apply styling to specific areas of a report to customize its appearance and functionality. You can also use the many optional reporting features to add custom functionality and output formats to reports.
