Adding Active Form Controls to a Compound Document

You can insert active form controls into a compound document to act as filters on the reports of the document. You can also cascade (chain) controls to populate based on the selections of the previous controls. The output format of the compound document must be active report, active Flash, or active PDF in order to insert active form controls.

For details about active form controls, see Using Document View and Building Compound Documents in the WebFOCUS InfoAssist User's Manual.

Procedure: How to Add an Active Form Control to a Compound Document

With InfoAssist open in the Document view, select an active output type (active report, active Flash, active PDF) from the Output Types group of the Format tab.
Select the Insert tab from the Control Panel.
Select a form control to insert from the Active Dashboard Prompts group, as shown in the following image.

An active form control appears in the top-left corner of the canvas.

You can now add the field for the form control filter.

Note: Once an active form control is added to the canvas, the compound document is locked in an active output format. You cannot change out of active report, active Flash, or active PDF format if there are controls present on the canvas. To switch to a non-active output format, all controls must be removed.