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The following are release considerations and product changes for Active Technologies (WebFOCUS Reporting Server Release 82).

Support for a Floating-Point Value on a WHERE Filter

You can now use a floating-point single-precision (F) value or a floating-point double-precision (D) value on a WHERE filter for an active report. However, we recommend that you convert a floating-point single-precision or floating-point double-precision value to packed decimal (P) for better precision. A WHERE filter using a floating-point value can, in some cases, produce an imprecise result due to rounding differences unique to each database engine.

Menu Update

The Enable Transitions option on a column drop-down menu for a tabular active report on an active dashboard has been removed.

Coordinated Fields and NOPRINT

When a coordinated field is added to an active dashboard, it is added as a NOPRINT field. The coordinated field name is not displayed as part of the default chart title, and the coordinated field value that is selected on the dashboard is not concatenated to the X-axis labels.

Title for Coordinated Field Drop-Down List

When you run an active dashboard with a coordinated field, Active Technologies labels the drop-down list for the field with its title when available, instead of its name. Active Technologies derives the title from the following sources.
  1. If the Master File contains a TITLE attribute for the field, Active Technologies uses the title specified on the TITLE attribute in the Master File. An example is TITLE = 'Product ID'.
  2. If the Master File does not contain a TITLE attribute for the field, Active Technologies uses the name specified on the FIELDNAME or FIELD attribute in the Master File. An example is FIELD=PCD.

For more information on Master Files, see the Describing Data With WebFOCUS Language manual.

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