WebFOCUS Online Help > Managed Reporting End User > Analyzing Data in an OLAP Report > Saving and Displaying OLAP Reports and Graphs in Other Formats

OLAP reports and graphs appear in your browser in HTML format. You can display the report and corresponding graph in PDF, Excel, and Active Report formats, and in folders within Managed Reporting.

The following save and/or display options are available:

• PDF is useful when you want a report or graph to maintain its presentation and layout regardless of a user's browser or printer type.

  When you choose PDF format, the report appears in Adobe Acrobat Reader; the graph continues to appear above it in a browser window. If you print from Acrobat, only the report will be printed.

• Excel is useful when you want to convert a large database to a spreadsheet or save a report and graph in a commonly used Office tool. Two Excel formats are available:
  • Excel 2000 supports most StyleSheet attributes, allowing for full report formatting. The computer on which the report is being displayed must have Microsoft Excel 2000 or higher installed.

    When you choose Excel 2000, the report and graph are displayed in the same tool where you can manipulate the data using Excel options. From Excel you can print both the report and the graph.

    When you save in Excel 2000 format, only explicit drill-downs (based on parameters passed from the base report to the drill-down report) continue to work. Automatic drill downs on Dimensions and Measures are not supported in Excel.

  • Excel is a binary display format with limited formatting support. The computer on which the report is being displayed must have Microsoft Excel installed.

    Drill-downs of any kind are not supported.

• Active Report is useful when you want to create a self-contained HTML report that is designed for offline analysis. You can interact with the data, using analysis options similar to those found in an Excel workbook, without any connection to a server.

In Managed Reporting:

• A user can save the HTML output in the My Reports folder.
• A developer can save the HTML output in the Other folder, where it can be distributed to users as a Standard Report. Developers can refer to the WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Developer's Manual for details on how to save a transformed report as a Standard Report.