Viewing Library Content

The Report Library interface Library Reports interface provides access to all content in the library that you have permission to view. The Library Reports interface, shown in the following image, displays the Library Reports navigation tree in the left pane and the details of the selected item in the right pane.

Reports are stored in the library under categories that you designate when creating a schedule. (If a category is not specified when creating a schedule for either a Standard Report or My Report, then the domain name under which the report was created in Managed Reporting is used as the category.) The top of the navigation tree in the left pane is titled Library Contents, and when expanded, displays the categories under which your reports reside as branches of the tree. This information also appears in the right pane. Categories and reports are listed alphabetically.

Each category folder contains report folders for that category, and each report folder contains the versions of the report generated by the report schedule. The report folder name is the same as the description given to the schedule that generated the report. If the report bursts, the report folder contains a folder for each burst value and the report versions reside in those folders.

In the Library Reports interface, select an item in the left pane to see the contents and information about that item in the right pane. When you select a category folder, a list of reports in the category appears in the right pane. When you select a report folder, all versions of that report that are currently in the library appear in the right pane. When you select a report version in the left pane, the actual report appears in the right pane.

Procedure: How to View Content in the Report Library

In the navigation pane, expand the category folder and select the report folder.
The right pane displays a list of report folders that appear under that category. The following image shows an example of a selected category and the summary information for the reports that appear under that category.

The category folder summary information includes:
- Description. The name of the report, which is the name of the schedule.
- Owner. The user ID that created the report schedule.
- Burst. Indicates if the report is burst. Yes (Y) or no (N).
- Access List. Reflects the Library access selection in the report schedule, as follows:
  - The name of the Library Access List that is applied to the report.
  - An asterisk (*), which indicates the report is public (anyone with access to the library has access to the report).
  - Blank, which indicates that only the owner of the schedule has access to the report.
- Last Version. The latest version of the report in the library, for example, 3.
- Last Execution. The date and time of the last schedule execution and distribution. The date format is YYYYMMDD, where YYYY is the 4-digit year, MM is the month, DD is the day of the month. The time format is HHMM, where HH is the hour and MM is the minute, followed by either AM or PM.
Note: You can sort the columns in ascending or descending order by clicking the column heading.
To view summary information for a report, select the report folder of interest. Summary information for that report appears in the right pane, including a list of the existing versions of the report.
The following image shows an example of a report selected in the navigation pane and the list of report(s) in the right pane.

The report summary information includes:
- Version. The version number of the report.
- Execution Time. The date and time that the schedule ran that version of the report. The date format is YYYYMMDD, where YYYY is the 4-digit year, MM is the month, DD is the day of the month. The time format is HHMM, where HH is the hour and MM is the minute, followed by either AM or PM.
- Expiration. The expiration setting of the report.
- Size. The size (in bytes) of the report. If the report is compressed, this is the size of the report before compression.
- Format. The format of the report, for example, HTML.
- Compressed Size. The size (in bytes) of the compressed report, if applicable. This field is empty if the report is not compressed.
If a report bursts, the report folder contains a separate folder for each burst value.

In the following image, the left pane shows that the report folder contains the folders for each report burst on the product code value, while the right pane provides summary information about these burst reports.

The burst report summary information includes:
- Value. The burst value of the report.
- Last Version. The last version of the report that was distributed to the library.
- Last Execution. The date and time that the schedule ran the last version of the report for that burst value. The date format is YYYYMMDD, where YYYY is the 4-digit year, MM is the month, DD is the day of the month. The time format is HHMM, where HH is the hour and MM is the minute, followed by either AM or PM.
Select a burst report folder in the left pane to display report summary information of the versions for that burst value in the right pane, as shown in the following image. This is the same report summary information that is displayed for any report folder.
To view the contents of a report, use one of the following methods:
- In the left pane, under the report folder, select the version of interest. The report appears in the right pane.
- In the right-pane, double-click the version of the report. The report appears in the right pane.
- In the right-pane, highlight the version of the report and click the Open icon in the Library Reports toolbar. The report opens in a separate window.
The following image is an example of a report displayed in the right pane.

Viewing On-demand Paging Reports

In this section:

Searching in an On-demand Paging Report

The Report Library On-demand Paging feature enables you to view a report one page at a time from the Library while the Web server holds the remaining pages and feeds them at your request. This feature is useful for large reports because it decreases the amount of time you must wait before you can begin viewing the report.

On-demand Paging reports open from the Library inside the WebFOCUS Viewer. This tool provides the framework to view report pages and allows you to search for specific pages or information in the report.

To enable the On-demand Paging feature, reports must be distributed in the On-demand Paging format (HTML ODP). You must select HTML ODP as the format when creating a schedule for a report to be distributed in the On-demand Paging format. HTML ODP is available as a format when Library is selected for distribution.

Note: When HTML ODP is selected as the format, the Distribution Server adds SET WEBVIEWTARG=OFF to the procedure to control the behavior of the frames in the Library. SET WEBVIEWTARG does not override ON TABLE SET WEBVIEWTARG. Therefore, the scheduled procedure should not contain an ON TABLE SET WEBVIEWTARG statement.

You can open an On-demand Paging report inside the Report Library or in a separate window, as follows:

To open the report in the right Library pane, use one of the following methods:
- In the left navigation pane, click the version of the report you want to view.
- In the right Library pane, double-click the version of the report you want to view.
To open the report in a separate window, use one of the following methods:
- In the left navigation pane, right-click the version you want to view and select Open from the drop-down list.
- In the right Library pane, select the version you want to view and click the Open icon in the Library toolbar.

The following image is an example of an On-demand Paging report opened with the WebFOCUS Viewer in the Library pane.

WebFOCUS Viewer

The WebFOCUS Viewer control panel, shown in the following image, appears at the bottom of the WebFOCUS Viewer.

WebFOCUS Viewer

The controls enable you to:

Display a specific page. Type a page number in the Page field and press Enter, or click the Go To icon next to the Page field and type in a page number. The following image shows the Page field and icon in the control panel.
Display the previous or next page in a sequence by clicking the Previous and Next arrows, shown in the following image.
Display the first or last page of the report by clicking the First Page or Last Page arrows, as shown in the following image.
Download the entire report to the browser as a single document by clicking the All Pages icon, shown in the following image.
Close the WebFOCUS Viewer by clicking the Close icon, shown in the following image.

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Searching in an On-demand Paging Report

The Viewer Control Panel contains controls that offer several ways to search your report. Using the Viewer search controls, you can select a string of information, such as a phrase that occurs in your report or a group of numbers, and search for each occurrence of that string. You can further customize your search by matching capitalization of words exactly (a case-sensitive search) or by controlling the direction of your search (either forward or backward from your starting point in the report). Use these controls to search your report:

To perform a case-sensitive search, click Match Case as shown in the following image.
To search backward in a report, click Search Backward as shown in the following image.
To locate a specific string, type the string you want to search for and click Find as shown in the following image.

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Procedure: How to Search in an On-demand Paging Report

Enter the string in the Search input box.
Click Match Case if you want to perform a case-sensitive search.
Notice that the WebFOCUS Viewer displays the Match Case button with a red line across it to indicate that it is active.
To begin your search, click:
1. Search Backward to search for the string from the current page back to the first page.
  or
2. Find to search from the current page to the end of your report.
The WebFOCUS Viewer searches the report and underlines the first occurrence of the string.
Click Find again to search for another occurrence of the string.

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Example: Using the Viewer Control Panel to Search

You want to use the Viewer Control Panel to navigate a long report called Coffee Sales to find occurrences of the string "Kona," a type of coffee that you sell. After you run the report, WebFOCUS displays the first page of the report in the Viewer.

To search for sales of Kona, type Kona in the input box and click Find, as shown in the following image.

The WebFOCUS Viewer returns your report with the first occurrence of your search string underlined, as shown in the following image.
Click Find again to locate the next occurrence of Kona.