The self-service version of InfoAssist, known as Personal InfoAssist, is available outside the Dashboard (Managed Reporting) environment. Any application can call and open Personal InfoAssist. This feature enables you to integrate InfoAssist into your own self-service applications.

With Personal InfoAssist, you can browse for saved reports (procedures) on your local desktop. You can also save reports to the local desktop and restore them from the desktop. You execute reports only within InfoAssist. There is no facility that allows query execution outside the tool. You can call Personal InfoAssist from a URL that is a standard JavaServer Page (JSP).

All functionality for the Dashboard version of InfoAssist is provided in Personal InfoAssist except the following:

• Customizing InfoAssist by modifying user preferences.
• Drilling down to a procedure.
• Applying custom themes.
• Running reports in deferred mode.

The URL for accessing Personal InfoAssist is

http://hostname[:port]/wf_context_root/MyIA[?IBIC_server=server][&IBIAPP_app=app]

where:

hostname[:port]

Is the name of the host where the WebFOCUS Web application is deployed. Specify the optional port number only if you are not using the default port number.

wf_context_root

Is the site-customized context root for the WebFOCUS Web application deployed on your application server. The default value is ibi_apps.

server

Is the optional WebFOCUS Reporting Server to use.

app

Is the optional application path name to search.