Previewing Reports

As you create reports in WebFOCUS Designer, you can preview them to see how your data displays in the report, to check the styling before publishing it or sharing it with others, and to see run time behaviors such as filter prompting, Auto Drill and Auto Linking, and offline analysis features. At any point in the development of your report, click Preview on the Designer toolbar, as shown in the following image.

This executes your request and presents the results in the preview window.

Once you've reviewed your report, you can exit the preview by pressing the Esc key or by clicking the blue circle that is docked at the top of the page.

When previewing a report that contains filters that require selection, the autoprompt facility opens, allowing you to select filter values at run time. Once you've made your selections, you can load the report by clicking Run with filter values . To change your filter selections, click the hamburger control  to reopen the filter panel, and then change the values selected in the filter controls.

When autoprompt is present, the Esc key causes the parameter panel to open and close. In this case, you can use the blue dot to return from the preview to the design view of your report.