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Conference ilbbak::ibi_focus

Title:FOCUS, from INFORMATION BUILDERS
Moderator:ZAYIUS::BROUILLETTE
Created:Thu Feb 19 1987
Last Modified:Mon May 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:615
Total number of notes:1779

353.0. "Focus Graphs" by CAMBEL::STUARTC (If at first you don't succeed, cheat!!) Tue Jul 24 1990 12:19

  
  Currently, we are just getting into using Focus graphs and I have it a few 
 problems which I am finding difficult to get around. Hopefully someone 
 somewhere can help me out.

  Problem 1 - I am trying to schedule a graph to run automatically. I have set
              up a .com file to run the job and save the graph to a file so it 
              can be printed.
              When I run the FOCEXEC manually in Focus there is no problem.
              When I run it in batch there is no graph.
              The .com file looks perfectly OK.
              One difference I did note however is that when I run the routine 
              in Focus it says "REGIS FILE SAVED" but running it in batch it 
              says "GRAPH FILE SAVED".   Very odd.....

              The command to save the graph was "ON GRAPH SAVE FORMAT GRAPH"

              I tried format REGIS but it didn't like it....

  Problem 2 - The vertical axis starts at 2000. I have tried to override this by
              swithing VAUTO off and setting VMIN at 0 and VMAX at 6000 but this
              doesn't seem to work. I would like to start the vertical axis at 0.

  Problem 3 - We tried to use the DOWK subroutine to display day of the week but
              when the command line "ACROSS DAY_OF_WEEK" in the graph FOCEXEC
              was executed it sorted the days of the week as expected. Is there
              any way to override this by sorting by date and displaying the day
              of the week on the graph.  

     Hope someone can help...


         Thanx 

            Stuart.
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353.1Try MRELUCCIO::MACCANIWed Jul 25 1990 06:3218
    Try the graphic in MRE.
    
    	MRE provides utilities able to produce a focus code that produce a
    decgraph code that produce a graph.
    	Trying to be just a little simpler: using MRE you can run a
    standard focus request; this (if possible) is modified in order to
    output a DECgraph understandable code. As a consequence with 
    MRE you can : Build a standard report request (using also a menu-guided
    interface) decide to run it (either to obtain a graph or a textual
    report), if you decide to run it in graph mode the results are
    generated and imported in DECgraph were you can (if you want to) modify
    the graph (e.g. change the palette pattern or decide to modify the
    axis). All these job are complitely ALL-IN-1 integrated and very
    complex scheduling function (without using command files) are
    available. MRE is an end-User oriented (easy to use) product for
    Management Reporting. (see also conference CURRNT::MRE_INTEREST)
    
    				Best Regards, Maurizio