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Globally Enabling Reporting Tools in Dashboard

How to:

You can choose which reporting tools that will be available globally in Dashboard. The reporting tools are:

The configuration file, bid-config.xml, contains the variables that control whether or not a reporting tool is available globally in Dashboard. The default setting for each tool variable is true, which makes the tool available to users in Dashboard. You can choose the tools you want to hide from user by setting the variable to false.

Note: InfoAssist and Power Painter license codes must be configured in WebFOCUS in order for them to be included in Managed Reporting. All other tools are automatically included during the WebFOCUS installation and made available to Managed Reporting.

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Procedure: How to Select the Reporting Tools for All Dashboard Views

To select specific reporting tools in all Dashboard views:

  1. In the WebFOCUS76\worp\conf directory, open the bid-config.xml file in a text editor.
  2. Locate the variables for the reporting tools. There is an enable variable for each reporting tool. The following shows the variable for the Advanced Graph Assistant tool. 
    <internal-var name="enableAdvancedGraphAssistant" value="true"/>

    The reporting tool variables names are:

    • enableAdvancedGraphAssistant
    • enableHTMLReportAssistant
    • enableHTMLGraphAssistant
    • enableInfoAssist
    • enablePowerPainter
    • enableTextEditor
  3. The default variable setting is to make the tool accessible (true). If you want to hide the tool, set the variable to false, as shown in the following example. 
    <internal-var name="enableAdvancedGraphAssistant" value="false"/>
  4. After making changes to the bid-config.xml file, use the WebFOCUS Console to clear memory cache, or restart the application.

    Note: Until this is done, the changes are not effective.

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