Picture Properties

Use the Picture tab in the Properties dialog box to add a picture to your background. Pictures appear within a frame. You can resize either the frame or the picture, and you can tile the picture so that it is replicated to cover your background. The Picture graphic object types supported include:

When an Interactive Reporting document (BQY) 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 Hyperion System 9 BI+ 9.3. Readme.

Bitmap (.BMP) format (default picture object)
Graphic Interchange format (.GIF)
JPEG File Interchange Format (.JPG, .JPEG)
Portable Network Graphic (.PNG)

To insert a picture graphic object in the Report section:

From Elements, select the picture object from the graphics folder.
Drag the picture object to the desired area in the Contents pane.
The Select Image dialog box appears. Navigate to the location of the .BMP, .GIF .JPG, and .JPEG file.

Select a graphic from the Select Image dialog and click OK.

Use pictures to include your corporate logo, your product logo, or notices such as testing, beta, and so on.

Table 115. Picture Properties

Property	Description
Picture	Click Browse and select a picture. Pictures must be in .BMP, .GIF, .JPG and .JPEG file format.
Percent Scale	Resizes the picture. 100% displays the picture in its original width or height. 50% reduces the size by half.
Picture Effect	Select one of the following options: None—Keeps the picture the same size when you resize the frame of the picture. Stretch—Resizes the picture along with the frame. Clip —Allows the frame to be resized smaller than the picture, which lets you crop a picture. Tile—Replicates the picture to fill the frame.

Property

Description

Picture

Click Browse and select a picture. Pictures must be in .BMP, .GIF, .JPG and .JPEG file format.

Percent Scale

Resizes the picture. 100% displays the picture in its original width or height. 50% reduces the size by half.

Picture Effect

Select one of the following options:

None—Keeps the picture the same size when you resize the frame of the picture.

Stretch—Resizes the picture along with the frame.

Clip —Allows the frame to be resized smaller than the picture, which lets you crop a picture.

Tile—Replicates the picture to fill the frame.