Additional InfoAssist Types

In this section: Accessing InfoAssist Basic

InfoAssist Basic is a modern web-based facility that provides comparable functionality to legacy reporting tools. InfoAssist Basic contains many of the features of InfoAssist, while still allowing you to create and edit reports and charts as you would with a legacy tool.

InfoAssist Basic is an advanced, yet simple to use, ad hoc reporting tool that offers dynamic features for creating intricate reports and performing insightful analysis.

Using InfoAssist Basic, you can create a customized report, organize report output with sorting, change a column heading and format, add a page heading and footing, enhance the appearance of the report, create a matrix report, and validate and test your work.

InfoAssist Basic does not include the following capabilities found in InfoAssist:

• General Features
  • Creating dashboards and documents
  • Live Preview
  • Publishing
  • InfoMini
  • Slicers
  • Cube Browser
  • Chart to Report conversion
• Home tab
  • Format group
• Format tab
  • Destination group
  • Reference Lines
  • Annotations
  • Format Horizontal Grid Lines - Color Bands tab and Frames tab
  • Format Vertical Grid Lines - Color Bands tab and Frames tab
  • Gauges
  • Map chart type in the Chart Types group
  • Format Vertical Axis - Frames tab
  • Format Horizontal Axis - Frames tab
  • Format Legend - Fill tab, Border Styles tab, and Shadow tab
• Field tab
  • Sorting
• Series tab
  • Data Position
  • Trendlines
  • Equation
  • Smooth Line
  • Marker Shape
  • Pie Expand
  • Pie Hide
• Output Types
  • PowerPoint
  • Excel
  • PostScript
  • User Selection

You have the option to activate InfoMini when you create a report. When you run a report with InfoMini activated, an InfoMini application is launched. An InfoMini application contains a subset of the functionality available to a full InfoAssist report. You can limit or expand the functionality that is available to the user at run time when you build the report.

An InfoMini application opens in its own browser window if it is running from InfoAssist.