Creating Standard Reports, Reporting Objects, and Other File in Dashboard

How to:

By default, administrators and developers can create Standard Reports, Reporting Objects, and Other Files in Dashboard with any of the available reporting tools. Additionally, they can create new folders under Standard Reports, Reporting Objects, and Other Files, and set properties at the Standard Reports, Reporting Objects, and Other Files level. However, new domains can only be created in the Managed Reporting Administration interface. If for some reason an administrator or developer does not have this capability, they can be enabled for all views by editing a variable setting in the bid-config.xml file or enabled for specific views using the Dashboard View Builder.


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Procedure: How to Enable the Creation of Standard Reports, Reporting Object, and Other Files in All Views

To enable administrators and developers to create Standard Reports, Reporting Objects, and Other Files in all Dashboard views:

  1. In the WebFOCUS77\worp\conf directory, open the bid-config.xml file in a text editor.
  2. Edit the following variable to change it from:
    <internal-var name="enableExtendedMenu" value="false"/>

    to

    <internal-var name="enableExtendedMenu" value="true"/>

Note: After making changes to the bid-config.xml file, use the WebFOCUS Console to clear memory cache, or restart the application. Until this is done, the changes are not effective.


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Procedure: How to Enable the Creation of Standard Reports, Reporting Objects, and Other Files in Specific Views

To enable administrators and developers to create Standard Reports, Reporting Object, and Other Files in specific Dashboard views:

  1. Log on to the Dashboard View Builder.
  2. Select a view.
  3. Click Edit Settings.
  4. Select the True option to the right of enableExtendedMenu in the Settings pane.
  5. Click Save Settings.
  6. Click Close.

For more information about using the Edit Settings functionality in the Dashboard View Builder, see Customizing Dashboard Pages for a Public or Group View.


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