Note: If you are editing an existing graph, clicking Save will automatically save the edits to the current graph file. You will not be prompted to name the file again.

Note: You must create a FileDef before you save a graph to a file. This is where the file will be saved to. For details, see the Developing Reporting Applications manual.

Note: You may open your output file by selecting Open from the File menu in your browser.

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

When you click the Save or Save As button 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:

• Yes. Click to save your changes and exit the report.
• No. Click to discard your changes and exit the report.
• Cancel. Click to return to your report to continue working or use Save or Save As to save your changes and then click Quit to exit your report.

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

After creating your graph in the Graph Assistant, click Run from any tab in the Graph Assistant to view your graph output.

When running graphs in GIF format on a UNIX platform with the HEADLESS configuration, the graph may not appear properly. You may see a red X instead of your image. This is due to Sun's methodology of creating images without a head, which does not currently support GIF images.

Note: Running applet graphs in the HTML Graph Assistant with the setting GRAPHENGINE=OLD works with both Sun's and Microsoft's VM. Applet graphs with the setting GRAPHENGINE=NEW work only with Sun's VM. If you have a graph with the setting GRAPHENGINE=NEW and you are using Microsoft VM, you should either update your Java Plug-in or change your GRAPHENGINE setting.

GRAPHENGINE=NEW and GRAPHEDIT=ON are mutually exclusive. If you specify GRAPHEDIT=ON and GRAPHENGINE=NEW, you get an error message stating that GRAPHEDIT=ON is not supported with GRAPHENGINE=NEW.

If you use different color settings from this recommended value, your graphs may appear in grayscale format.

Following are descriptions of the graph display formats:

• PNG (Portable Network Graphics). PNG graphs are bitmapped and can support 16 million colors. In addition, PNG graphs have lossless compression (data is decompressed 100% back to the original). Therefore, saving, altering, and resaving a PNG does not degrade its overall quality. The PNG graph appears in the browser.
• GIF (Graphics Interchange Format). GIF compresses well but only supports 256 colors. The GIF graph appears in the browser.
• JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group). A compressed file format.
• SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). SVG is a text-based graph file format that enables Web application developers to design powerful, interactive graphs. SVG is compact and generates high quality images on any media regardless of resolution. The SVG is viewable with an Adobe plug-in.

  Note: To include a graph in the Document Composer, the graph must be saved in .SVG or .GIF format.

• PDF/SVG (Portable Document Format/Scalable Vector Graphics). The SVG graph is automatically embedded into a PDF and shown only on the screen. Drill down is not available with this format.
• PDF/GIF (Portable Document Format/Graphics Interchange Format). The GIF graph is automatically embedded into a PDF and shown only on the screen. Drill down is not available with this format.