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Hello, and welcome to this video on Insight, a feature that allows you to make significant modifications to your content at run time that can be enabled with the click of a button.

Hello and welcome to this video on sorting Dynamic Prompts. This feature makes it easy to sort values that display at run time within dynamic prompts in either ascending or descending order. This is particularly useful for numeric values to place the highest or lowest values at the top of the selection list. This is also useful for dates to choose whether the date values will be presented with the most recent at the top or at the bottom of the list. You can also specify sorting for categorical values with ease using Dynamic Prompts.

This video will show you a new way to organize your data by creating a stacked bar chart, sorted by the total length of each bar rather than by segment. This procedure also works with other bar, line, and area chart formats.

Hello and welcome to this video on downloading data from InfoAssist in Excel (csv) format. This feature makes it easy to create a report and capture the data for use with any external program that utilizes comma delimited data, including Microsoft Excel. With this feature, you can generate data extracts and pass your data between systems with ease. 

InfoAssist provides many options for styling reports, to enhance them and make your data stand out.

Once you’ve added some data to your report, you have access to plenty of styling and formatting options.

On the Home tab, you can change the font style, including its size and color, or add bands to the report. The bands make it easier to differentiate rows and tell which values go together.

You can also add a header or footer, which shows up on each page of your report at the top or bottom, respectively. You can also add other features like column or row totals.

Today we’ll take a look at how to create a virtual field, which is a temporary field that can be used to create content.  A temporary field‘s value is not stored in the data source, but can be calculated from it or assigned an absolute value. They are created as needed, and take up little storage space on the server, making them a great way to adapt your data on the fly.

Suppose you find useful insight in your data that isn’t directly represented by any of its fields. You can create a temporary field to bring that information to light, right alongside the rest of your data.

Today we will introduce how to create a matrix chart, which splits information across rows and columns, in a grid format.  It is a powerful, comparative, tool, which provides a quick glance of trends over time. 

Matrix charts are a great way to identify patterns in your data quickly. By comparing the size or frequency of chart segments, you can immediately determine which values are the most important, or need the most attention, allowing you to investigate the circumstances at play and discover their root causes.

Hello, and welcome to this video on Freezing Column Headings in In-Document Analytics Reports.

When working with an HTML report with In-Document Analytics capabilities (AHTML format), you can define a scroll area within the data of your report and lock the column titles in place, enabling you to scroll through the data within the output container while the column tiles stay in view.  This is particularly useful when you are creating a large report. The scrolling capability allows you to page through a report quickly, giving you the ability to locate information easily.

Today, we will show you how to create a report using InfoAssist. Reports are tables of information that show data organized into rows and columns for specified sort values.

To create a report, you can either expand a folder in the Content view of the WebFOCUS Home page and click Report or, from within InfoAssist, you can create a report by clicking New on the Quick Access Toolbar or Application Menu and then clicking Build a Report. Once you choose a data source, you are ready to create your content. 

This video will show how you can quickly and easily generate an image of a chart or report to use as a thumbnail in the WebFOCUS Home Page. This can help you quickly recognize the file you want to use in your repository.

Creating the thumbnail is easy. Once you’ve created your chart or report, simply click the Create Thumbnail button on the Quick Access Toolbar. A dialog box appears to show you what the thumbnail will look like.