WebFOCUS Online Help > InfoAssist > Introducing and Launching InfoAssist > Introducing Personal InfoAssist

The self service version of InfoAssist, known as Personal InfoAssist, is available outside of the Dashboard (Managed Reporting) environment and can be called from any application to open the tool. This enables you to integrate InfoAssist into your own self service applications.

With Personal InfoAssist, you can browse for saved queries (procedures) on your local desktop. You can also save and restore from the local desktop. Report and chart queries are executed only from within InfoAssist. There is no facility that allows queries to be executed outside of the tool. Personal InfoAssist is callable from a URL that is a standard JSP.

All functionality for the Dashboard version of InfoAssist is provided in Personal InfoAssist except the following:

• Customizing InfoAssist by modifying user preferences.
• Drilling down to a procedure.
• Applying custom themes.
• Running queries in deferred mode.

The URL for accessing Personal InfoAssist is:

http://hostname[:port]/wf_context_root/MyIA[?IBIC_server=server][&IBIAPP_app=app]

where:

hostname[:port]

Is the host name and optional port number (specified only if you are not using the default port number) where the WebFOCUS Web application is deployed.

wf_context_root

Is the site-customized context root for the WebFOCUS Web application deployed on your Application Server. The default value is ibi_apps.

server

Is the optional Reporting Server to use.

app

Is the optional application path name to search.