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Running, Saving, and Printing a Graph

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The following topics provide detailed instructions for running, saving, and printing graphs. The options listed below, are available from all areas of the Advanced Graph Assistant.

Save/Save As. Click the Save icon to save your graph. Select Save As from the drop-down menu to the right of the save icon to open the save dialog box. Note that Save As is not available in Advanced Graph Assistant when accessed from Developer Studio.

Run/Run Debug. Click the Run icon to run your graph. Select Run Debug from the drop-down menu to the right of the run icon to run your graph in debug mode, which turns on tracing and enables you to view the generated graph syntax.

Preview. Click the Preview icon to view the current graph in the preview area. You can also select additional options from the drop-down menu to the right of the preview icon including Refresh, Sample data, Live data, Show drop targets, and Live data properties.

Help. Click the Help icon to access help about the area of Advanced Graph Assistant in which you are working. Select About from the drop-down menu to the right of the help icon to open a window describing the version of the Advanced Graph Assistant in which you are working.

Quit. Click to Quit icon the exit Advanced Graph Assistant.

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Procedure: How to Save a New Graph

Perform these steps the first time you Save a graph you are creating.

  1. Click the Save button near the top left corner of Advanced Graph Assistant.

    The drop-down list to the right of the Save button presents two choices, Save and Save As, both of which perform the same function the first time you save a graph.

  2. Enter a name for the graph.

    The first time you Save a graph (and when you select the Save As option), a Save dialog box opens where you can specify the directory and file name in which to save the graph. The default location is the current Domain and folder, from which you can navigate to another directory to save the graph if desired.

    The following locations are not available to save the graph: Shared Reports, Import Directory, and Reporting Objects.

  3. Click OK and the following 'Report saved successfully' confirmation message appears:

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Procedure: How to Save an Existing Graph

Perform these steps whenever you want to Save an existing graph you are editing.

  1. Click the Save button near the top left corner of Advanced Graph Assistant.

    Clicking Save automatically saves the edits to the current graph file. You are not prompted to provide a name for the graph.

  2. The 'Report saved successfully' confirmation message appears.
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Procedure: How to Use 'Save As' to Save an Existing Graph

Save, not Save As, is the default if you just click the Save button. Perform the following steps whenever you are editing an existing graph and want to save it with a different name, or save it to a new directory, or both.

  1. Click the down arrow to open the drop-down list to the right of the Save button, which is located near the top left corner of Advanced Graph Assistant.
  2. Select the Save As option in the drop-down list.

    The Save dialog box appears, as shown in the following image.

  3. Enter a new name to save the graph.

    The default location for Save As is the current Domain and folder, from which you can navigate to another directory to save the graph if desired.

    The following locations are not available to save the graph: Shared Reports, Import Directory, and Reporting Objects.

    Note: Save As is not available in Advanced Graph Assistant when accessed from Developer Studio.

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Procedure: How to Save a Graph to a File
  1. Open the procedure that contains the graph and add the following before the Graph:
  2. Open the graph with Advanced Graph Assistant, select the Data selection tab, then select the Available Fields tab.
  3. Click the Chart icon in the query pane below the Available Fields tab.

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    Click anywhere on the chart displayed in the graph preview area.

    The Chart Properties form is displayed below the graph preview area.

  4. Click the Value column in the row that displays Output destination in the Property column. A drop-down arrow appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column.
  5. Click the down arrow to open the drop-down list.
  6. Select File.
  7. Double-click the Value column in the row that displays Name in the Property column. (This is a new row near the top of the Chart Properties form that appears when the default Output destination is changed from Screen to File.)
  8. Type a file name for the graph.
  9. Click the Value column in the row that displays Format in the Property column. A drop-down arrow appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column.
  10. Click the down arrow to open the drop-down list.
  11. Select either PNG, JPEG, GIF, or SVG from the format drop-down list. The default is PNG.
  12. Click Run. The graph is saved to the file you specified in Step 1 of this procedure. You can open your output file by selecting Open from the File menu in your browser.

Note: When saving a graph, if the graph contains a second horizontal category (which is a horizontal field that produces multiple graphs), the value in the FOCUS HEADING is not saved as part of the image file. Instead, the horizontal field name is embedded in the graph's page heading to identify the graph.

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Reference: Saving Options

When you click the Save or Save As buttons you save your report (procedure). If you make changes in your report without subsequently saving them and then click Quit, you are prompted with the following options:

Note: In Advanced Graph Assistant, if you close the window by clicking the X, your changes will not be saved.

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Procedure: How to Run a Graph
  1. Create a graph.
  2. Click the Run button near the top left corner of Advanced Graph Assistant to view the output of the graph.
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Procedure: How to Print a Graph
  1. Run a graph.
  2. Right-click anywhere in the browser that opens to display the graph, and select Print from the pop-up menu.
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Procedure: How to Send Graph Output Directly to a Printer
  1. Make sure the Data selection tab and the Available Fields tab are selected.
  2. Click anywhere on the chart displayed in the graph preview area.

    or

    Click the Chart icon in the query pane below the Available Fields tab.

    The Chart Properties form is displayed below the graph preview area.

  3. Click the Value column in the row that displays Output destination in the Property column.

    A drop-down arrow appears at the far right edge of the row in the Value column.

  4. Click the down arrow to open the drop-down list.
  5. Select Printer.
  6. Click Run.

    The graph prints to your default printer setting.

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Reference: Choosing Formats for Output to the Screen, a File, or Printer

When you create or edit a graph in Advanced Graph Assistant, you can select to send the graph output to the screen, a file, or a printer.

If you are selecting the output destination to be the screen or a file, all options listed in Graph Display Formats are available.

If you are selecting the output destination to be a printer, only the PNG, GIF, and SVG options are available.

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Graph Display Formats

Following are descriptions of the graph display formats:

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