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Building Reports with Report Painter (Part 2)





Course 354 - 2 Days

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:

Developers working with WebFOCUS Developer Studio or Power Reporter who want to increase their knowledge of the WebFOCUS reporting tools.

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

Tuition:
In AUS. Dollars

Public Class: $1,000 per student

Next Recommended Course:
Course 358 - Developing Composite Reports, or
Course 370 - Controlling the Execution of Application Components.