Managing Graphs

Opening and closing graphs

You can open any graph you have previously created, or any graph that your administrator has defined and distributed to you. After you finish working with a graph, you can close it to conserve system resources and save space in the Financial Analyzer window.

Printing graphs

You can print an entire graph, the current page, or a set of pages you specify.

Both Financial Analyzer and Microsoft Windows provide a wide range of printing options that let you adjust margins, create headers and footers, preview a document before printing, and so on.

Adding graphs to folders

You can organize graphs within folders so that you can locate them quickly and easily.

Choose Maintain Folders from the Tools menu to add a graph to a folder. This opens the Maintain Folders dialog box, where you can choose a folder and select one or more graphs to add.

Deleting graphs

You can delete graphs that you no longer need from your personal database.

Choose Delete from the File menu to delete a graph. This opens the Delete dialog box, where you can select a graph to delete.

As an administrator, you can also delete a graph from the shared database so that users no longer have access to it. You delete the graph from your personal database, and then distribute the structure with a Delete from System action. This deletes the structure from the shared database and from the personal databases of all of your users, including any administrators immediately below you in the reporting hierarchy.

Modifying graphs

You can modify a graph by making new selections for financial data items and dimension values. You can also change the graph type, change the layout, and modify the formatting.

You can save a modified graph under its current name, or under a new name.

Exporting graph data to a file

You can export data from your active graph to a file so that you can import the data into another application, such as a spreadsheet.

Choose Export to File from the File menu to export graph data to a bitmap (.BMP file). This opens the Export to File dialog box, where you can specify the file name and path.

Related information

For more information about managing graphs, search for the following topics in the Financial Analyzer Help system:

"Adding Documents to Folders"

"Adding the Current Graph to a Folder"

"Adding Multiple Documents to Folders"

"Application Options"

"Closing Graphs"

"Deleting Graphs"

"Exporting Graph Data to Other Applications"

"Opening Graphs"

"Removing Documents From Folders"