A HOLD file is valuable when you want to do the following:
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Navigate to your saved report and right-click.
- From the right-click menu, select Edit With.., and then click InfoAssist.
- On the ribbon, select the Home tab, and click File from the Format group.
- From the Temporary hold dialog box, confirm Temporary is selected above the left navigation pane.
- Enter text into the Title field.
- Confirm Binary (*.ftm) is the selected file format.
- Once a file name and file format is identified, click Save. The Temporary File dialog box will close.
You should now see a Query pane (top center) as well the Create Report function (bottom right).
Note that the hold file has been created; see the name in the Query pane.
- Click Create Report at the bottom right to use the Hold file to create a report to join the Hold file to another UC_SADM data table.
- Notice that the workspace changes again. The system assumes you want to create a report using data from that Hold File. To join the Hold file to another table, click the Data tab and then click Join.
- Notice that the Hold file displays in the join dialog box. Click the Add New drop-down and then click Existing.
- Navigate to rec_student_groups_dim from the dialog box that displays.
- Click Open.
- Notice that a second table displays in the Join dialog box. Join the the tables together. Refer to the Basic Table Joins article for more instruction.
- Click OK.
Now create the report, pulling in fields from the Hold file, as well as from the additional table that we just added.
- In this example, the fields are added under the By header, within the Query pane.
- In this example, the fields are added under the By header, within the Query pane.
Add new filters specific to the new table that was just joined. See Filtering a Report for additional instruction.
- Click OK to confirm.
- Click Run to view the output of the report.
- Complete the info within the Parameters dialog box.
- Click Run.
- Review the output.
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See WebFOCUS InfoAssist Manual 8.2.06 for additional information. |
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