General Options

Use the General tab to globally enable or disable specific operating functions.

  To select general options:

  1. Select Tools, then Options, and then Program Options.

  2. Select the General tab on the Options dialog box.

  3. Define the desired options and click OK.

Table 6. General Options and their Descriptions

General OptionDescription
Auto LogonMaintains a connection whenever you create a new document. If you are currently logged on, Interactive Reporting prompts you to use the current connection.
Reset Print Properties

Retains the print settings with each section of the document, instead of inheriting the current default print settings.

Convert BMP to PNG

Converts a picture automatically in .BMP format is converted to .PNG format (Portable Network Graphic) before it is loaded into the Resource Manager. The converted .PNG image are not backward compatible in pre 9.3 release documents.

When an Interactive Reporting document is created and saved using 9.3.x releases, all images are saved in a centralized format (the Resource Manager). As a result, the images cannot be read or displayed in prior releases of Interactive Reporting. This is because the relocation and rationalization of the images is not understood by releases prior to 9.3.x.

The exception is images from a document saved in a pre 9.3 Release, which have been referenced once: not copied, merged or duplicated, e.g. placed in Dashboard or Report workspace as a Picture graphic in traditional fashion.

To retain compatibility with earlier releases, you can run the RevertImageResources script. This script provides a facility to undo the relocation and image merging, and thereby return the Interactive Reporting document to the pre-9.3 pre-Resource Manager format. This script is included with the 9.3. Release of Dashboard Development Services. It can also be downloaded from the Hyperion Developer Network. This script can only be used on the desktop, and not in the EPM Workspace, as it relies on the COM feature of Interactive Reporting Studio.

Certain new features make documents ineligible for conversion to the non-Resource Manager format: for example if the 9.3 Interactive Reporting document has Bubble and Scatter charts, then these are lost when the Interactive Reporting document is opened in the older version of Interactive Reporting Studio. For information on running the RevertImageResources script, see the 9 .3. Readme.

Table 7.  Document Save Options and their Descriptions

Document Save OptionDescription
Compress All DocumentsSaves all documents in compressed file format. This reverses the default setting, which saves documents without compression. If enabled, you can override this privilege and save documents without compression by choosing File, then Save As and changing the Save As type.
Create New Documents CompressedCompresses new documents.
Encrypt Dashboard scripts for new documentEnables the default encryption state for a new Interactive Reporting document. When an Interactive Reporting document is created, the default encryption state matches the one on the Designer Options dialog. This setting does not affect the encryption state of any other Interactive Reporting document (including the active document.) Note that encrypted scripts are not functional in a release prior to 6.6.3 or 8.1. Despite the default setting you select, scripts are only encrypted if the Interactive Reporting document has a valid Design mode password.

Table 8. Date Handling Options

Date Handling OptionsDescription
When A Two Digit Year Is Entered, Interpret As A Year Between

By default, if you enter a date and type only two digits for the year, Interactive Reporting handles the dates as follows:

  • Two-digit years entered from 00 up to and including 29 are assigned to the 21st century (2000 to 2029). For example, if you enter 3/12/18, Interactive Reporting accepts the date as March 12, 2018.

  • Two-digit years entered from 30 up to and including 99 are assigned to the 20th century (1930 to 1999). For example, if you enter 3/12/06, Interactive Reporting accepts the date as March 12, 2006.

You can change the default century to which a two-digit year is assigned by using the date-handling boxes. These boxes require a range of dates within a 99-year time period. Changes to a date format are applied globally, but do not affect dates previously formatted

For example, if you want the two-digit year 25 to be assigned to the twentieth century instead of the twenty-first century use the arrow keys to scroll to the year 1999. The date in the corresponding read-only, date‑handling box is automatically changed to 1900.

Tip:

Whenever possible, enter the year as four digits; that is, type 2006 instead of 06.

Table 9. Microsoft Office Export Limitation

Limitation OptionsDescriptions
Export to Excel2 formatSets the Excel format to use by default for the Export Section to Excel feature.

Check this field to select the Excel2 format, which uses the Binary File Format (BIFF2). The Excel2 format requires that you select an encoding from the Encoding field on the Export Section dialog box.

To select the Excel97 fomat (BIFF8), which supports Unicode (UTF-16LE), do not check this field. When the Excel97 format is used, the Encoding field on the Export Section dialog box is locked since the encoding is already Unicode (UTF-16LE).

RowsSpecify the default maximum number of rows which can be exported to the source rows in Excel. Do not enter a negative integer in this field. Note that only 65, 536 rows are processed for Excel to process any formulas. If this number is exceeded, Excel truncates the exported section data.
ColumnsSpecify the default maximum number of columns which can be exported to the source rows in Excel. Do not enter a negative integer in this field.