Infor BI Application Studio WebServices

In Application Studio WebServices you view and work with reports which are created in Infor BI Application Studio. Application Studio enables report designers to build reports based on multiple multidimensional and relational data sources, including Infor BI OLAP Server and Microsoft Analysis Services. Application Studio reports can be stand-alone or they can be combined to form reporting applications for planning and budgeting. Write back functionality enables you to writeback values (for example, budget forecasts) to the source database and to allocate them in various ways.

Application Studio WebServices offers the functionality of Application Studio through a web browser without having to install any Application Studio components on your machine.

Note: The Adobe PDF Viewer browser add-on is required. Other add-ons are not necessary, and can reduce browser performance, especially when rendering large reports.

Your view of the reports and how you interact with them is determined by the permissions assigned to you in Application Studio. For example, by default, the reports are displayed in the Report Tree at the left of the browser window, from where you can select them. The Report Tree displays the reports within the report catalog to which you are connected.

See Configuring permissions and report catalog settings.

However, because the Report Tree can be disabled, reports are normally designed so that you can navigate between them through shared menus, hyperlinks and actions.

Application Studio reports are stored in a report catalog in Infor BI Repository. If you have access to more than one catalog you can choose, at logon, which report catalog to use, or you can log off and then log on again to a different catalog. However, if you have access to only one catalog, you can be logged on automatically.

A repository administrator can specify whether report definitions are loaded from the repository each time the reports are accessed, or whether the definitions are cached. If the definitions are cached, the latest version of the report is loaded only when you log on to Application Studio WebServices. The report is not updated again until you next log on. Caching optimizes performance.

If you do not interact with Application Studio WebServices for 20 minutes, you will be logged off. If you then interact with Application Studio WebServices, the Logon page is displayed. The default twenty minute time-out can be changed, on the Application Studio WebServices server, by an administrator.