1. InfoAssist Tips and Techniques
Chuck Wolff – Information Builders
June 5, 2014

2. Agenda – All items will be demonstrated
UNM Specific WebFOCUS
JOIN’s - Avoiding the dreaded FOC029 error “All sort keys are not in a single top-to-bottom segment path”
Date Range Filters (WHERE conditions)
fund_hierarchy_cunm
ACTIVE_FUNDS_FILTER = FUND_STATUS EQ 'A'
AND TERMINATION_DATE IS MISSING
OR TERMINATION_DATE GE '&MDY’
InfoMini
New features with WebFOCUS (Late Fall)
RECOMPUTEs on Subtotal and Total lines
Refresh Business Intelligence Portal
WITHIN (Aggregation)
Lightweight Mapping
PowerPoint PPTX output format
Magic Filters

3. JOINS – Avoiding the FOC029 Error

4. Date Range Filters

5. InfoMini
InfoMini enables you to develop mini applications. On a report-by-report basis, you can choose which features of InfoAssist to embed into a report. An InfoMini application has two modes – interactive and edit.
The interactive mode gives access to features available on InfoAssist’s Home, Format and Slicers tabs.  This includes features such as the ability to change report format and add a heading. In this mode there is no interactive canvas and or ability to alter the query.
The edit mode exposes additional functionality such as the Resources Panel (field list, filter bucket, and query bucket) and the Field Tab. In this mode the user can add/remove fields from the query, style individual fields and perform other tasks. There is still no interactive canvas since this is a smaller version.

6. InfoMini – Interactive Mode

7. InfoMini – Edit Mode

8. RECOMPUTE Subtotal and Total

9. Refresh BI Portal
Allows one report or chart to filter another report or chart in the BI Portal

10. Refresh BI Portal

11. WITHIN Aggregation
Handle specific aggregation features at different report levels by utilizing WITHIN phrase.
WITHIN phrase manipulates a display field values as they are aggregated within a sort group, rather than a report group.
Menu is located in the Display group on the Field tab.

12. WITHIN Aggregation Percentage distribution within entire column
Percentage distribution within Region

13. WebFOCUS Mapping Capabilities
Leverages Leaflet API to provide:
Interactive mapping out-of-the-box
9 Layers of Zoom
Translated Countries
Choropleth (colored Polygons)
Points
WebFOCUS Client
Leaflet API Call (GeoJSON)
Map-Tiling Engine
Alternate Map-Tiling Engine
ESRI, Google,etc

14. WebFOCUS Mapping Capabilities

15. WebFOCUS Mapping Capabilities

16. WebFOCUS Mapping Capabilities

17. WebFOCUS Mapping Capabilities

18. WebFOCUS Mapping Capabilities

19. PowerPoint PPTX output format
With Office 2010, Microsoft introduced enhanced presentation functionality in a new presentation file format. From PPT -> PPTX.
The new .pptx file is a binary compilation of a group of xml files.
Legacy PPT (.PHT) desupported in Office
Eliminates issues as customers move to later Office releases
PPTX supports standard and enhanced styling of the reports and the slides within each presentation
New Features Added to PPTX only:
Drilldown
InfoAssist offers PPTX format for both reports, charts, and documents

20. PowerPoint PPTX output format

21. Magic Filters
One set of parameters controlling multiple report/chart outputs

22. Magic Filters