Release Features

The Editor toolbar presents commonly used functions, organized into a series of menu groups. The toolbar is shown in the following image.

The following table lists and describes the functions that you can access from the Editor toolbar.

Syntax highlighting improves readability and makes debugging procedures easier. This color-coded highlighting is applied to the source code for WebFOCUS procedures to distinguish keywords, comments, functions, arithmetic and logical operators, constants, and quoted strings.

Highlighting is supported for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, R, Python, and SQL files.

The following image is an example of highlighting in a WebFOCUS procedure (FOCEXEC) that is opened in the Editor.

In Document mode, you can:

• Build a new document.
• Open an existing document.
• Generate a new document from an existing single report.

A blank InfoAssist canvas in Document mode is shown in the following image.

Procedure: How to Access Document Mode to Build a New Document

You can build new documents by accessing Document mode from the InfoAssist splash screen.

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.

This topic describes how to create a report, chart, or dashboard that is enabled for Active Technologies using InfoAssist.

These reports, charts, and dashboards use the full capabilities of Active Technologies. They are also referred to as active reports, charts, and dashboards.

Creating an Active Technologies Report

An active report is a self-contained report that is designed for offline analysis.

This topic provides an overview of Active Technologies and discusses security and active cache processing. It includes additional information about the features of the product that will help you use it.

This topic also describes the features of an Active Technologies report, which is a report that is enabled to use the full capabilities of Active Technologies. An Active Technologies report is also called an active report.

Active Technologies Report Overview

An active report is a report that is designed for offline analysis. When using an active report, you can:

This topic describes how to create a report, chart, or dashboard that is enabled for Active Technologies using InfoAssist.

These reports, charts, and dashboards use the full capabilities of Active Technologies. They are also referred to as active reports, charts, and dashboards.

The main components of the Editor interface are shown in the following annotated image.

The Editor interface components are identified as follows:

You can use the following custom features when creating reports.

You can change the format of any field except a Sort field. You can change the format of measure fields, as well as any calculated fields.

You can access the Field Format Options dialog box from the following locations:

• Define and Compute dialog boxes.
• Edit Format option when you right-click a measure in the Query pane (all modes), right-click a column in a chart, or a measure column in a report.
• Format group on the Field tab.

The following image shows the Field Format Options dialog box.