Output Formats

In this section:

HTML5
Enabling Additional Output Types

You can change your output format on the Home tab, in the Format group.

Current Output Format. Displays a drop-down menu of all supported output formats.
- HTML (the default for charts and reports)
- HTML5 (only available for charts)
- (default for documents)
- PDF
- Excel (xlsx) (reports designed in Live Preview and Query Design views only)
- Excel Formula (xlsx) (reports designed in Live Preview and Query Design views only)
- Excel (csv)
  Note: You can control the display of Excel output formats from the InfoAssist Properties section in the WebFOCUS Administration Console.
- PowerPoint (pptx)
When you run a report, the output is created in the format that is currently selected. You can also select output format options on the status bar, from the Output Types menu.

Note: If you are running InfoAssist Basic, your output format options are limited. PowerPoint and are not supported for charts and reports. PDF, Excel, and are not supported for charts.
Report or Chart. Determines whether report-specific or chart-specific functionality is available in the InfoAssist tool. The default name ReportX or ChartY is given for each new report or chart created in a given InfoAssist session. X and Y are numbers that start at 1 and increase by 1 for each report or chart created. For more information on switching between multiple reports, see View Tab.
File. Creates an image file from a chart, or a data file from a report. For more information, see Output Formats for Reports and Charts.
Note: The File menu is not available in InfoAssist Basic.

Format	Reports	Charts	Documents
HTML	Available (default)	Available (default)	Available
HTML5	Not Available	Available	Not Available
	Available	Available	Available
PDF	Available	Available	Available (document default)
(requires Adobe® Reader® 9.0 or later)	Available	Available	Available
Excel formats	Available	Available	Available
PowerPoint (pptx)	Available	Available	Available
PDF/GIF (must be set to display in InfoAssist Properties)	Not Available	Available	Not Available
PNG (must be set to display in InfoAssist Properties)	Not Available	Available	Not Available
GIF (must be set to display in InfoAssist Properties)	Not Available	Available	Not Available
JPEG (must be set to display in InfoAssist Properties)	Not Available	Available	Not Available
SVG (must be set to display in InfoAssist Properties)	Not Available	Available	Not Available

Enabling Additional Output Types

In this section:

User Selection

The output types of PNG, GIF, JPEG, and SVG do not appear on the status bar, in the Output Types menu, by default. In addition, User Selection is not available, by default. You can enable these options by opening the Administration Console, selecting Utilities, and then InfoAssist Properties.

If these formats are not enabled and you try to open an existing procedure with PNG, then HTML becomes the output. In addition, the following warning messages could open:

When opening an existing procedure with JPEG, GIF, or SVG, a warning message opens, indicating that the request is not allowed with the current configuration and that the procedure will be converted to HTML output.
When opening an existing procedure with PDF or GIF, a warning message opens, stating that the request is not allowed with the current configuration and that the procedure will be converted to PDF output.

When you run a report, the output is created in the format that is currently selected. You can also set output format options from the output format button in the status bar.

User Selection

The User Selection output format allows you to change the output type of your report at run time. User Selection can be accessed on the status bar, in the Output Types menu.

Note: User Selection must be enabled in the Administration Console in order to access the functionality.

Once it is enabled, you are prompted, at run time, to select an output type. This is shown in the following image.

You can select one of the following output types for your report, chart, or document:

For reports, you can select HTML, , PDF, , Excel (xlsx), Excel Formula (xlsx), and PowerPoint (pptx).
For charts, you can select HTML, HTML5, , PDF, , Excel (xlsx), and PowerPoint (pptx).
Note: When working with charts that do not employ the new chart attribute syntax, all output formats will display when User Selection is selected. If you are working with a chart that uses the new chart attribute syntax, HTML5 and are the only output formats available for selection. Exceptions to this rule are the HTML5 specific charts that do not use the new attribute syntax, but are only available in HTML5 or formats, including: Tagcloud, Parabox, Mekko, and Streamgraph.
For documents, you can select HTML, , PDF, , Excel (xlsx), and PowerPoint (pptx).

Output Formats

HTML5

Enabling Additional Output Types

User Selection