Accessing Report Assistant

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Selecting the Master File in Report Assistant

You can access the Report Assistant through Dashboard, Managed Reporting, or as a self-service application.

Report Assistant is accessible:

Through Dashboard when creating or editing a My Report.
During the creation of a new Standard Report.
When a report is selected during the creation of a Reporting Object.
When editing a Reporting Object within Domains.
When editing a My Report within Domains.
As a self-service application.

Before Report Assistant opens, you may be prompted to supply a WebFOCUS Reporting Server ID. For more information, see Signing on to a Server in the Using Domain Tree Items section of the WebFOCUS Managed Reporting End User’s Manual.

For information about running the Report Assistant outside of Managed Reporting, see Report Assistant Parameters in the WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Developer's Manual.

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Selecting the Master File in Report Assistant

To choose the Master File to work with, select the file and click OK. To search for a specific Master File, use the scroll bar.

The following image shows the Browse Data dialog box containing available data descriptions for selection.

In a self-service version, you can also type the first character of the name of the Master File anywhere in the list to jump to the name of that Master File.

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