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Managed Reporting offers you a selection of reporting tools that you use to create and edit reports, manipulate data in an existing report, submit a report for background processing, and view a report.

Power Painter. Power Painter is a Web layout and report creation tool that enables you to create output and page layout formats. It combines reporting, graphs, and page layout design in a single tool.

Report Assistant. Report Assistant is an HTML-based tool that you use to create tabular reports. From Report Assistant you select the data that constitute your report, create new data from existing data, apply screening conditions to the data, as well as format and style your report.

Graph Assistant. The Graph Assistant is an HTML-based tool that guides you step-by-step through the creation of a graph. The Graph Assistant enables you to create and style your graphs.

Graph Editor. The Graph Editor enables you to change the style or formatting of graph output after it appears. The Graph Editor may not be available with the graph that you run. Your Administrator will decide which graphs you can edit.

OLAP Selections Panel and OLAP Control Panel. The Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) selections panel and OLAP Control Panel enable you to view and manipulate data in your report. With these tools you can make changes "on demand" and immediately see the output that results from your selections. OLAP offers you many analytical features to help you interpret the data in your report.

ReportCaster. ReportCaster is a tool that allows you to manage and schedule the distribution of your reports. Using ReportCaster you can distribute your reports at scheduled intervals via e-mail, FTP, or to a printer.

WebFOCUS Viewer. The WebFOCUS Viewer displays report output one page at a time. This tool is useful for reports that contain a large number of pages. Only the first page is sent from the Web server to your browser. The WebFOCUS Viewer enables you to page through the output, as well as search for a specific string of text.

Deferred Receipt. Deferred Receipt allows you to submit a report for background processing. Once you submit a report, you can continue working in Managed Reporting while WebFOCUS processes the report. You then use the Deferred Report Status Interface to view the report output and save the report as a My Report.