1. Click Save or Save As from the Graph Assistant.
2. From the Save New Standard Report dialog box, enter a name for the graph.

Note: If you are editing an existing graph, clicking Save will automatically save the edits to the current graph file. You will not be prompted to name the file again.

1. Open the procedure that contains the graph and add the following before the Graph:

   A FILEDEF command that defines the directory to which your graph file is saved. You may create a FILEDEF command with the Allocation Wizard. This step is optional. You do not need a report component to HOLD a graph. If you do not include a FILEDEF command, the graph will be saved to a temporary location on the WebFOCUS Reporting Server.

   Your procedure viewer should now look like the following image.

   

2. Click the Option subtab of the Properties tab in the Graph Assistant.
3. From the Output to drop-down list, choose Screen, File, or Printer.
4. Name your file in the text box provided.
5. Select either PNG, JPEG, GIF, or SVG from the format drop-down list. The default is PNG.
6. Click Run.

   You may open your output file by selecting Open from the File menu in your browser.

Note: When saving a graph, if the graph contains a second horizontal category (that is a horizontal field that produces multiple graphs), the value in the FOCUS HEADING should not be saved as part of the image file. Instead, the horizontal field name is embedded in the page heading of the graph to identify the graph.

Note: You must use the Allocation Wizard to create a FILEDEF command before you save a graph to a file. This is where the file will be saved to.

For details, see the Creating Reporting Applications With Developer Studio manual.

1. Click the Properties tab of the Graph Assistant.
2. Click the Options subtab.
3. Select File from the Output to list box.
4. Type the filename in the Name text box.
5. Select either PNG, JPEG, GIF, PDF/SVG, or PDF/GIF from the format list box. The default is PNG.
6. Click Run. The output file is saved in the directory specified in the FILEDEF command if the IBIJAVAPATH has been set as a system environmental variable. Otherwise, the output appears in the browser in the specified format. From the browser, you can save the graph on your local system.

Note: You may open your output file by selecting Open from the File menu in your browser.

When saving a graph as a GIF file, if the graph contains a second horizontal category (that is a horizontal field that produces multiple graphs), the value in the HEADING will not be saved as part of the GIF file. Instead, to identify the graph, the horizontal field name will be embedded in the page heading of the graph.

When you click the Save or Save As button, you save your report (procedure). If you make changes in your report without subsequently saving them and then click Quit, you are prompted with the following options:

• Yes. Click to save your changes and exit the report.
• No. Click to discard your changes and exit the report.
• Cancel. Click to return to your report to continue working or use Save or Save As to save your changes and then click Quit to exit your report.

Note: If you are a Managed Reporting Administrator or developer with DataServers access, when you create a new graph from Dashboard, you can change your Server and/or Application Path settings from the New Report window. If you change at least one of these settings, the Save and Save As dialog boxes will let you change both values when saving. If you did not change at least one of them on the initial window, you will not be able to change either value when saving.

After creating your graph in the Graph Assistant, click Run from any tab in the Graph Assistant to view your graph output.

When running graphs in GIF format on a UNIX platform with the HEADLESS configuration, the graph may not appear properly. You may see a red X instead of your image. This is due to methodology Sun uses when creating images without a head, which does not currently support GIF images.

Note: Running applet graphs in the Graph Assistant with the setting GRAPHENGINE=OLD works with both the Sun and Microsoft VM. Applet graphs with the setting GRAPHENGINE=NEW work only with the Sun VM. If you have a graph with the setting GRAPHENGINE=NEW and you are using Microsoft VM, you should either update your Java Plug-in or change your GRAPHENGINE setting.

GRAPHENGINE=NEW and GRAPHEDIT=ON are mutually exclusive. If you specify GRAPHEDIT=ON and GRAPHENGINE=NEW, you get an error message stating that GRAPHEDIT=ON is not supported with GRAPHENGINE=NEW.

The following options are available from any tab of the Graph Assistantin the Managed Reporting environment:

Save/Save As

Click Save to save your graph. Click Save As to open the Save New Standard Report dialog box.

Run/Run Deferred

Click Run to run your graph. Click Run Deferred to run your graph at a later time.

Help

Click the icon to access help about the area of the tab in which you are working. Click About to open a window describing the version of Graph Assistant in which you are working.

Quit

Click Quit to quit the application.

1. Run your graph.
2. From the browser, select Print from the File menu.

1. From the Properties tab, click the Options subtab.
2. Select Printer from the Output list box.

   You do not need to provide a name or select a format.

3. Click Run.

   The graph prints to your default printer setting.

1. From the Windows Control Panel, select Display.
2. Click the Settings tab.
3. In the Color palette box, click the drop-down arrow and select True Color (32 bit) or a higher color count.
4. Click OK.

If you use different color settings from this recommended value, your graphs may appear in grayscale format.

The following are descriptions of the graph display formats.

• PNG (Portable Network Graphics). PNG graphs are bitmapped and can support 16 million colors. In addition, PNG graphs have lossless compression (data is decompressed 100% back to the original). Therefore, saving, altering, and resaving a PNG does not degrade its overall quality. The PNG graph appears in the browser.
• GIF (Graphics Interchange Format). GIF compresses well but only supports 256 colors. The GIF graph appears in the browser.
• JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group). A compressed file format.
• SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). SVG is a text-based graph file format that enables Web application developers to design powerful, interactive graphs. SVG is compact and generates high quality images on any media regardless of resolution. The SVG is viewable with an Adobe plug-in.

  Note: To include a graph in the Document Composer, the graph must be saved in .SVG or .GIF format.

• PDF/SVG (Portable Document Format/Scalable Vector Graphics). In the Managed Reporting environment, the SVG graph is automatically embedded into a PDF and shown only on the screen. Drill down is not available with this format.
• PDF/GIF (Portable Document Format/Graphics Interchange Format). In the Managed Reporting environment, the GIF graph is automatically embedded into a PDF and shown only on the screen. Drill down is not available with this format.