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Running, Saving, and Printing Your
Graph
In this section: How to: Reference: |
When you run your graph, you may print the output directly
from the browser.
Note: If your graph labels or legends are not appearing
correctly when you run your graph, see How to Change Color Settings for
details on correcting this.
In the Managed Reporting environment,
if you log off Managed Reporting without first closing the Graph
Assistant, you must manually close the tool.
Procedure: How to Save Your Graph From the Graph
Assistant in the Managed Reporting Environment
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Click
Save or Save
As from the Graph Assistant.
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From
the Save New Standard Report dialog box, enter a name for
the graph.
Note: If
you are editing an existing graph, clicking Save will automatically save
the edits to the current graph file. You will not be prompted
to name the file again.
Procedure: How to Save Your Graph to a File in the
Developer Studio Environment
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Open
the procedure that contains the graph and add the following
before the Graph:
A FILEDEF command that defines the directory
to which your graph file is saved. You may create a FILEDEF command
with the Allocation Wizard. This step is optional. You do not
need a report component to HOLD a graph. If you do not include
a FILEDEF command, the graph will be saved to a temporary location
on the WebFOCUS Reporting Server.
Your procedure
viewer should now look like the following image.
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Click
the Option subtab of the Properties
tab in the Graph Assistant.
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From
the Output to drop-down list,
choose Screen, File, or Printer.
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Name
your file in the text box provided.
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Select
either PNG, JPEG,
GIF, or SVG from
the format drop-down list. The default is PNG.
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Click
Run.
You may open your output file by selecting
Open from the File menu in your
browser.
Note: When
saving a graph, if the graph contains a second horizontal category
(that is a horizontal field that produces multiple graphs),
the value in the FOCUS HEADING should not be saved as part of the
image file. Instead, the horizontal field name is embedded in
the page heading of the graph to identify the graph.
Procedure: How to Save Your Graph to a File in the
Managed Reporting Environment
Note: You
must use the Allocation Wizard to create a FILEDEF command before
you save a graph to a file. This is where the file will be saved
to. For details, see the Developing Reporting Applications With Graphical Tools
manual.
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Click
the Properties tab of the Graph
Assistant.
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Click
the Options subtab.
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Select
File from the Output to list
box.
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Type
the filename in the Name text box.
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Select
either PNG, JPEG,
GIF, PDF/SVG,
or PDF/GIF from the format list
box. The default is PNG.
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Click
Run. The output file is saved in
the directory specified in the FILEDEF command if the IBIJAVAPATH
has been set as a system environmental variable. Otherwise,
the output appears in the browser in the specified format.
From the browser you can save the graph on your local system.
Note: You
may open your output file by selecting Open from
the File menu in your browser.
When saving a graph
as a GIF file, if the graph contains a second horizontal category (that
is a horizontal field that produces multiple graphs), the value
in the HEADING will not be saved as part of the GIF file. Instead,
to identify the graph, the horizontal field name will be embedded
in the page heading of the graph.
Reference: Saving Options
When
you click the Save or Save As button you save your report (procedure).
If you make changes in your report without subsequently saving
them and then click Quit, you are prompted with the following
options:
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Yes. Click
to save your changes and exit the report.
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No. Click
to discard your changes and exit the report.
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Cancel. Click
to return to your report to continue working or use Save or
Save As to save your changes and then click Quit to exit your
report.
Note: In
the Managed Reporting environment of the Graph Assistant, if
you close the window by clicking the X, your changes will not
be saved.
Procedure: How to Run Your Graph
After
creating your graph in the Graph Assistant, click Run from
any tab in the Graph Assistant to view your graph output.
When running
graphs in GIF format on a UNIX platform with the HEADLESS configuration,
the graph may not appear properly. You may see a red X instead
of your image. This is due to methodology Sun uses when creating
images without a head, which does not currently support GIF
images.
Note: Running applet graphs in the
Graph Assistant with the setting GRAPHENGINE=OLD works with
both the Sun and Microsoft VM. Applet graphs with the setting
GRAPHENGINE=NEW work only with the Sun VM. If you have a graph
with the setting GRAPHENGINE=NEW and you are using Microsoft
VM, you should either update your Java Plug-in or change your
GRAPHENGINE setting.
GRAPHENGINE=NEW and GRAPHEDIT=ON
are mutually exclusive. If you specify GRAPHEDIT=ON and GRAPHENGINE=NEW,
you get an error message stating that GRAPHEDIT=ON is not supported
with GRAPHENGINE=NEW.
Reference: Options Available on All Tabs in
the Managed Reporting Environment
The
following options are available from any tab of the Graph Assistant
in the Managed Reporting environment:
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Save/Save As
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Click Save to save your graph. Click Save As
to open the Save New Standard Report dialog box.
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Run/Run Deferred
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Click run to run your graph. Click run deferred
to run your graph at a later time.
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Help
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Click the icon to access help about the area
of the tab in which you are working. Click About to open a
window describing the version of Graph Assistant in which you are
working.
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Quit
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Click to quit the application.
Procedure: How to Print Your Graph
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Run
your graph.
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From
the browser, select Print from
the File menu.
Procedure: How to Send Graph Output Directly to a
Printer
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From
the Properties tab, click the Options subtab.
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Select
Printer from the Output list
box.
You do not need to provide a name or select
a format.
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Click
Run.
The graph prints to your default printer setting.
Procedure: How to Change Color Settings
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From
the Windows Control Panel, select Display.
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Click
the Settings tab.
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In the
Color palette box, click the drop-down arrow and select True Color
(32 bit) or a higher color count.
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Click
OK.
If
you use different color settings from this recommended value,
your graphs may appear in grayscale format.
Following are descriptions
of the graph display formats:
Reference: Choosing Formats for Output to
the Screen, a File, or Printer
When
you create or edit a graph in Graph Assistant, you can choose
among these formats in the Output section in the Options tab.
If you are designating Output To the Screen, all options listed
in Graph Display Formats are available, as shown in the Format drop-down
list.
The following image shows the Options subtab
in the Developer Studio environment.
The following image shows the Options subtab
in the Managed Reporting environment.
If you are designating Output to File, the
PNG, JPEG, GIF, and SVG options are available.
The
following image shows the Output section of the Options subtab,
in the Managed Reporting environment, with the Output to File
option selected.
If you are designating Output to a Printer,
the PNG, GIF, and SVG options also are available.
The following image shows the Output
section of the Options tab, in the Managed Reporting environment,
with the Output to Printer option selected.
