Connections made through Interactive Reporting Web Clients and the EPM Workspace can be made immediately to a database, or deferred until a query is actually processed.
A locally saved Interactive Reporting document file does not prompt to connect to the EPM Workspace when opened by dragging the Interactive Reporting document file into a Web browser. A message is displayed stating that the Interactive Reporting document file is opening in offline mode. This is part of Windows XP SP2's new pop-up blocker feature. The workaround is to disable the pop-up blocker. In Microsoft Internet Explorer, select Tools, then Pop-Up Blocker, then Turn Off Pop-up Blocker. |
Note: | Firefox does not invoke Interactive Reporting Web Client if: the Interactive Reporting document file name contains double-byte characters or characters from a code page different from the system code page in its file name. In addition, multilingual file names are not recognized by Firefox. |
To select a Web client connection method:
Select the connection method for the web client:
Immediately connect to database—Select this method to immediately connect to a database using genuine database authentication. You are prompted for the logon credentials to the database being accessed. The value set here for the Interactive Reporting document file in Interactive Reporting Studio cannot be changed in Interactive Reporting Web Client. This connection method is the preferred method for Interactive Reporting document files created in Interactive Reporting version 8.2 and later.
Defer connection to database until used to process SQL—Select this method to defer making a connection to a database until the query is processed. You are prompted for logon credentials to the database without using genuine database authentication. That is, no actual Interactive Reporting database connection file is attempted until the query is processed.