Building Reports with Report Painter (Part 2)

Course 354 - 2 Days - 1.2 CEU

How can you produce highly complex reports, and run them more efficiently in your business environment? With this course, you'll learn techniques to think critically about a business reporting need and translate it to a very productive WebFOCUS request. You will also be able to look at existing reports and eliminate needless processes.

You Will Learn How To:

• Decide which tools should be used in a specific situation
• Manage report output through Hold files
• Control the destination of an extract file through application namespace
• Control the exact order of data to be displayed
• Rank and group data automatically
• Sort aggregated data without creating a Hold file
• Use complex screening techniques
• Add flexibility to your report request
• Call a procedure from another procedure
• Manage calculations
• Calculate new values based on subtotal values
• Generate summary information when specific conditions are met
• Work efficiently with reports on pre-sorted data
• Select efficient join techniques for complex reports
• Merge data from multiple tables with the Match Wizard
• Add visual impact to reports
• Highlight critical data with conditional styling
• Display complex data in a visual, intuitive way through graphs
• Populate an Excel workbook by executing a WebFOCUS Procedure

Who Should Take This Course:

Prerequisite:
Course 351, Building Reports with Report Painter (Part 1)