Saving and Displaying OLAP Reports and Graphs in Other Formats

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How to:

OLAP reports and graphs appear in your browser in HTML format. You can display the report and corresponding graph in PDF, Excel, and active report formats, and in folders within Managed Reporting.

The following save and/or display options are available:

In Managed Reporting:


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Procedure: How to Display an OLAP Report and Graph in PDF Format
  1. Open the Control Panel.
  2. Click the Save button at the bottom of the window.
  3. Select Display as a PDF Report.

    The graph appears in the browser above the report, while a second browser opens and launches the report output in Adobe Acrobat, as shown in the following image.

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    Tip: If you wish, you can save and print the PDF report from Adobe Acrobat.


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Procedure: How to Save an OLAP Report and Graph as an Excel File
  1. Open the Control Panel.
  2. Click the Save button at the bottom of the window.
  3. Select Save the data in an Excel file or Save the data in an Excel 2000 file.
  4. Follow the instructions to export the data.

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Procedure: How to Display an OLAP Report and Graph as an HTML Active Technologies Report
  1. Open the OLAP Control Panel.
  2. Click the Save button at the bottom of the window.
  3. Select Display as active report (Offline Analysis).
  4. The report and graph appear in a separate window as an HTML active report.

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Saving OLAP Reports and Graphs in the My Reports Folder

In Managed Reporting, you can save an OLAP report and graph in your My Reports folder.

  1. Open the Control Panel.
  2. Click the Save button at the bottom of the window.
  3. Select Save as My Reports.

    A secondary window opens.

  4. Enter a descriptive name and click OK to save the graph(s) and the tabular report. If the domain of the OLAP report is restricted not to allow the creation of My Reports, select a domain from the Save in drop-down menu in the Save dialog box. If there are no domains listed, contact your Managed Reporting Administrator to obtain authorization to save My Reports to a domain.

Note: There is no limit to the number of characters in the label legend of a graph, but long labels may appear truncated.


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