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Francis Mariani
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Help!

Where is the "Save Selection Button" of the HTML Composer GUI tool documented?

It's the seventh icon from the left:


Thanks,

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Francis


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Waz
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I can only find a one-liner in the DS documentation, about the icon.

quote:
Saves a selection.

Note: This is specific to Managed Reporting and the ability to Save Parameterized reports.


Waz...

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Francis Mariani
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Yup, it looks like this button is supposed to save the report to the "My Reports" area of MRE, bet you it doesn't work in v7.6.8.

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Francis


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David Glick
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Waz,

The documentation states more than that, and I quote:

"Note: This is specific to Managed Reporting and the ability to save
parameterized reports with the Save Parameters dialog box. See
Creating Reports in Dashboard in the WebFOCUS Managed Reporting
End User's Manual for more information."

So, the referenced manual should be consulted.


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Francis Mariani
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My question is: Why have a button on a Dev Studio HTML Composer designed launch screen that saves the report somewhere in MRE and then cannot point to these saved reports.

Am I mistaken to assume that this button should provide functionality whereby upon clicking on it, the selected parameters are saved and can be recalled by another control on the same screen?

Or is this what the button does?


Francis


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Francis Mariani
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OK, as a test, in Dev Studio HTML Composer v7.6.8, I added the "Save Selection Button" to my launch page. When I run the launch page from Dev Studio MRE area, the launch page shows me the newly added "Save Selection" button. Clicking upon this button opens a pop-up where you specify the name of the saved report - it gets saved in the MRE User Management, Saved Parameter Reports folder, from where it can be executed. I need to do more work here, as the page does not render properly.

Meanwhile, if I run the same launch page from the MRE applet, the "Save Selection" button does not display, even though it's there in the view source. Also, the saved reports do not appear in the Saved Parameter Reports of the Shared Reports tab.


Francis


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<JG>
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Francis,

quote:
Am I mistaken to assume that this button should provide functionality whereby upon clicking on it, the selected parameters are saved and can be recalled by another control on the same screen?


Yes.

The saved parameter button is an output option.

It creates a copy of the html page in the users MY REPORTS folder saving the selected options.
So when the user runs the saved report it opens the page with the pre selected options.

It has nothing at all to do with interaction with other controls on the page
 
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<JG>
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Did not get back quickly enough.


It only works correctly from dashboard
 
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Francis Mariani
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So, you have a button on the screen where you give users the capability to save their selected parameters, but there's no way on the same screen to recall these saved parameters, they're saved somewhere in MRE that the current screen cannot retrieve the information from - or am I missing something?

JG, thanks for your updated comments.

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Francis Mariani
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Of course, end users are not usually equipped with Dev Studio, so I can't see the use for this button.


Francis


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<JG>
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Francis,

It's in the composer tool so that you can make it available for users running dashboard.

It sort of runs in Dev Studio because as a developer you need to test it.

Think of it as an extention to the add to favorites right click functionality in dash board.

It's an add 'this version' to MY Reports
 
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Waz
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The documentation states more than that, and I quote:


Thanks David, for the pointer to 7.7 documentation. As Francis and I are 7.6.5/6/8. the documentation is a bit less informative.


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<JG>
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IBI usually takes a couple of sub releases to incorporate the needed information.

In every documentation there is a customer feedback page.

Has anyone ever used it?

Generally you never know what you are missing unless someone else has told you.

Rule number 1.

READ the summary of new features docs.

It will be in those before it is in the complete docs.

IBI is better than most on managing this but is still not 100%.

It probably hits 95% most of the time but from experience most companies are around the 85 to 90%

When looking for completely up to date docs, release docs and NF docs together give you the whole picture.

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