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Managing the Siebel Analytics Web Charting Settings

You can change certain Siebel Analytics Web charting settings from their internal default settings by adding entries to the Siebel Analytics Web configuration file instanceconfig.xml:

• Specifying the Location of Temporary Storage for Chart Cache in Siebel Analytics Web
• Specifying the Interactive Behavior of Charts in Siebel Analytics Web
• Specifying the URL for Chart Navigation in Siebel Analytics Web

You need to create the tags <Chart> and </Chart> after the <ServerInstance> tag, and place your entries between the <Chart> and </Chart> tags.

For information about working in the configuration file instanceconfig.xml, read Making Siebel Analytics Web Configuration Changes.

Specifying the Location of Temporary Storage for Chart Cache in Siebel Analytics Web

You can override the internal default entry for the location used by Siebel Analytics Web as temporary storage for chart cache. The internal default is dirletter:\SiebelAnalyticsData\Temp\nQWCharts, where dirletter is the drive where the Siebel Analytics Web software is installed.

The location should be a fully-qualified path name, such as d:\SiebelWebChartCache. The folder or directory structure must exist before you start the Analytics Web Server service again.

The following entry is an example:

<Charts>
   <CacheDirectory>/usr/local/SiebelAnalytics/Data/temp/chartcache</CacheDirectory>
</Charts>

Specifying the Interactive Behavior of Charts in Siebel Analytics Web

You can override the default interactive behavior of Siebel Analytics Web charts. Valid entries are Drill, Navigate and None. The default is Drill. This means that charts are created drillable by default.

If you specify Navigate, charts navigate to the URL described in Specifying the URL for Chart Navigation in Siebel Analytics Web. If you specify None, charts are not interactive; for example, clicking on a chart or chart region does nothing.

The following entry is an example:

<Charts>
   <DefaultInteraction>Navigate</DefaultInteraction>
</Charts>

Specifying the URL for Chart Navigation in Siebel Analytics Web

If you specify Navigate as the interactive behavior of charts (described in Specifying the Interactive Behavior of Charts in Siebel Analytics Web), you can override the default URL to which charts navigate. The internal default URL is http://www.siebel.com/.

If the interactive behavior is not Navigate, this entry is ignored.

The following entry is an example:

<Charts>
   <DefaultNavigationPath>http://www.intranet.com/</DefaultNavigationPath>
</Charts>