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WebFOCUS is a complete information control system with comprehensive features for retrieving and analyzing data that enables you to create reports quickly and easily. It provides facilities for creating highly complex reports, but its strength lies in the simplicity of the request language. You can begin with simple queries and progress to complex reports as you learn about additional facilities.

WebFOCUS Introduction

WebFOCUS serves the needs of both end users with no formal training in data processing, and data processing professionals who need powerful tools for developing complete applications. A variety of tools are available that enable you to create reports and graphs even if you don’t know HTML or WebFOCUS reporting language commands and syntax.

This blog aims at providings reader with a detailed insight into the capabilities of WebFOCUS and serve as a learning platform for those who aspire to master WebFOCUS.

WebFOCUS Tutorials

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Creating Reports Tutorials

Creating Graphical Reports

WebFOCUS Graphics

WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Manual

ReportCaster API

WebFOCUS Security and Administration

WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Administrator's Manual

Focus for UNIX Manual-1

Focus for UNIX Manual-2

WebFOCUS Web Services

Developing Reporting Applications with Graphical Tools

ReportCaster Development and Administration

WebFOCUS Report Functions

Developer Studio Application Development Getting Started

WebFOCUS Reporting Server Installation

Developer Studio Installation and Configuration

iWay Server Installation

WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Developer's Manual

WebFOCUS Desktop Error Messages

Using WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Components

WebFOCUS InfoAssist User's Manual

Describing Data with Graphical Tools

WebFOCUS Best Practices

WebFOCUS Best Practices

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This Best Practices guide provides tips and techniques that will
enable you to review existing WebFOCUS reports and develop new
reports that meet the requirements for scheduling and distribution
using ReportCaster Version 7 Release 1. This guide provides:

❏ General guidelines about what ReportCaster can schedule.
❏ Details about the internal processing of scheduled jobs.
❏ Coding limitations of which you should be aware.
❏ Recommendations for scheduling WebFOCUS reports.
❏ Considerations for resource management for ReportCaster
and the Report Library.

Download WebFOCUS Best Practices.pdf

Describing Data With Graphical Tools

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This documentation describes how to create the metadata for the data sources that your
WebFOCUS projects will access.

It is intended for database administrators, application developers, or other information technology professionals who will create the metadata used by WebFOCUS to access corporate data.

Download Describing Data With Graphical Tools.pdf

WebFOCUS InfoAssist User’s Manual

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This documentation describes how to use the WebFOCUS InfoAssist application. It is intended for users that need to create, modify, and run report and chart queries. Contact your local Information Builders account manager to learn how this new capability can be licensed and enabled.

Download WebFOCUS InfoAssist User’s Manual.pdf

Using WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Components

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This documentation describes how to use WebFOCUS Visual Discovery.

It is intended for developer’s who are responsible for creating analytic dashboards.

Download Using WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Components.pdf

WebFOCUS Desktop Error Messages

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This documentation provides a detailed listing of the various error messages configured in WebFOCUS Desktop Edition

Download WebFOCUS Desktop Error Messages.pdf

WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Developer’s Manual

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This documentation describes how to use WebFOCUS Managed Reporting in Developer
Studio.

It is intended as a reference for application developers who create and manage
content.

Download WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Developer’s Manual.pdf

iWay Server Installation

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This manual is intended for system administrators responsible for installing the iWay Server. It lists installation requirements, describes how to install the iWay Server, and addresses post-installation tasks such as configuring iWay Adapters and securing the server.

Download iWay Server Installation.pdf

WebFOCUS Developer Studio Installation and Configuration

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This documentation describes how to install and configure WebFOCUS® Developer Studio
on machines running Windows 2000, XP, or 2003 operating systems.

This documentation is intended for developers with some knowledge of Windows® operating systems.

Download WebFOCUS Developer Studio Installation.pdf

WebFOCUS Reporting Server Installation

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This manual is intended for system administrators responsible for installing the server. It lists installation requirements, describes how to install the server, and addresses post-installation tasks such as configuring adapters and securing the server.

Download WebFOCUS Reporting Server Installation.pdf

Developer Studio Application Development Getting Started

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This documentation provides an introduction to the WebFOCUS development environment.

This manual is intended for application developers and power users.

Download Developer Studio Application Development Getting Started.pdf

WebFOCUS Report Functions

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This documentation describes how to use Information Builders-supplied functions to
perform complex calculations and manipulate data in your procedures. This
documentation is part of the WebFOCUS documentation set.

Download WebFOCUS Report Functions.pdf

ReportCaster Development and Administration

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This documentation describes ReportCaster, a scheduling and distribution application that centralizes the execution and distribution of WebFOCUS reports, the contents of URLs,and files.

It is intended for ReportCaster developers and administrators.

Download ReportCaster Development and Administration.pdf

FOCUS for Unix Manual 2

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The FOCUS for UNIX Users Manual provides information for you to successfully use FOCUS.
You do not need to read the chapters in the order in which they are presented, but novice users will benefit by starting with the introductory chapters and moving to the Creating Reports and Managing Data sections for an overview of FOCUS.

While FOCUS facilities and concepts are related, each chapter fully covers its respective topic.To enhance your understanding of a given topic, references to related topics throughout the manual are provided.

Download FOCUS for Unix Manual 2.pdf

Developing Reporting Applications With Graphical Tools

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This documentation describes how to use WebFOCUS graphical tools to create and deploy
self-service report applications on the Internet or corporate intranets.

It is intended for application developers.

Download WebFOCUS Developing Applications.pdf

WebFOCUS Web Services

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This documentation describes how to create Web Services for WebFOCUS features by
accessing supplied Web pages that provide the basic development interface for Web
Services support. It also describes the function calls required to implement the capability.

It is intended for experienced developers who will use this capability to expose WebFOCUS functionality as callable services from a Microsoft Visual Studio .NET or J2EE™ development platform. Developers should have a knowledge of Web Service technology and object-oriented programming.

Download WebFOCUS Web Services.pdf

FOCUS for UNIX Manual 1

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WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Administrator's Manual

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This documentation describes the WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Administrators environment,
which enables the creation of powerful EIS and decision-support applications that deliver easy access to the information that users need, regardless of hardware platforms, database structures, or application programs.

It is intended for system administrators.

Download WebFOCUS MRE Admin Manual.pdf

ReportCaster API

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This tutorial describes how to use the ReportCaster API.

It is intended for developers of self-service applications.

Download ReportCaster API.pdf

WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Manual

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This tutorial describes the WebFOCUS Managed Reporting end user’s environment,
which provides easy access to the information that users need, regardless of hardware
platforms, database structures, or application programs.

It is intended for users that need to run and create reports.

Download WebFocus Managed Reporting Manual.pdf

WebFOCUS Graphics

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This documentation describes how to use WebFOCUS Graphics API.

It is intended for developers of WebFOCUS applications.

Download WebFOCUS Graphics.pdf

Creating Reports Tutorials

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This tutorial describes how to use WebFOCUS to create and style tabular reports,
generate a wide variety of graphs, prepare data for those reports and graphs, and enable links to provide additional information.

It is intended for application developers and other information technology professionals who use WebFOCUS to create and deploy reporting applications on the Internet or corporate intranets.

Download Creating Reports Tutorial.pdf

Interview Tips

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Please find below the most common list of interview questions for WebFOCUS

1) Explain the Master file Approach of generating reports?

2) Explain the webfocus Architecture?

3) What are all the Types of Joins available in Webfocus?

4) How Right Outer Join can be implemented in Webfocus?(Match Command)?

5) What is segment, Root Segment in a master file?

6) What is HTML Painter? Report Painter...? Report Assistant?

7) What are Dialogue parameter variables?

8) How to execute a stored procedure in FEX code?

10) What is am Accordin Report, Cross Tab Report, Drill down Report?

11) Is it possible to include input elements in a report output?

12) What is MRE?

13) While using master file to generate a report, it takes 5 minutes for you to fetch the output... What are all you have to do to improve the performance?

14) What is Report Caster? What are the various options available in Report Caster to deliver reports?

15) What are the different Kind of Mails that can be used to deliver reports in Report Caster?

16) What is Report Bursting? Why is it used for?

17) What are the various scheduling Frequencies available in Report Caster?

18) What is Error code you have faced to the most while implementing FEX code?

19) Architecture of Developer Studio?

20) What are all the directories that are available while you create a new project using dev studio?

21) What you have to do to get alternate row color on a Table output using FEX?

22) What is the concept of Hold File Reuse?

23) How webfocus is superior / worse compared to other Reporting tools?

24) Explain the iWay flow of ETL?

25) What is an Active HTML Report?

26) What are kind of Charts / Graphs that can be generated using webfocus?

27) What is a Compound Report?

28) What is a PDF Layout Painter, what for it is used for?

29) What’s that you can do to segregate the Common Style information that is used across many reports?

30) How logging / Debugging can be done in webfocus?

31) What are the Standards that need to be followed while developing a Report?

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