WebFOCUS for the
layman
or
“Yes WE can !!!!”
Steve Simon
State Street Corporation
Who and what is our audience?
Business Analyst to Programmer : How
can I create a report that shows our total
assets to liabilities and order it by
department?
Programmer to Business Analyst: Create
a module that uses an instance of a class
and link it to…..
This hour is dedicated to the business
analyst and beginner WebFOCUS hero
•We shall be keeping things simple.
•This presentation assumes that you are a
beginner and have the most sincere wish to
become acquainted with the “wonders” of
WebFOCUS.
•Doing things yourself should help prevent
encounters with those pesky programmers
whose standard line is “IMPOSSIBLE”.
What we shall examine during this hour
•Defining business requirements.
•Translate requirements to simple
design.
•Translate simple design to simple
code.
•Reaping the benefits.
What we shall examine during this hour
•Easy data adapter creation
•Easy synonym creation.
•Creating simple, efficient &
effective reports.
•No headache tablets required 
How do the parts fit
together?
Access
Synonym
Code
Master
Excel
Data
Adapter
SQL
Server
What we shall examine during this
hour
Microsoft Excel data sources
How do we get at our Excel
data
And then the usual
OK
OK
OK
So where do we go
from here?
Why WebFOCUS of
course !!
Implementing
the adapter
Adapter
WebFOCUS
Excel
‘Garden hose’
Creating the
synonym
Our master file and
FOCUS access file
Demo 1
Demo 2
Cloning a report with
WebFOCUS
makes your investment
worth every cent.
Demo 3
Requesting a data
subset
TABLE FILE INFILE$
SUM SALES
BY STORENO
WHERE STORENO IN FILE STORENOS
ON TABLE SUBHEAD
"Store Sales World Wide"
HEADING
"My Store Sales"
FOOTING
Demo 4
During this hour we have
Looked at WebFOCUS from a layman’s view.
Created simple but very powerful reports.
We have seen how we can limit what we wish to
report by using the IN FILE technique.
During this hour we have
We have seen how to access an Excel
spreadsheet through a (Data Source) DSN.
We have seen how to create data adapters and
synonyms.
We have seen how we may clone a new report
with the change of a few lines via the TED editor.
We have completed all this in under 45 minutes.
Which really goes to prove
that WebFOCUS for the
layman is not really a major
challenge,
AND more importantly…
“Yes WE can do it!!!!”
Thank you!
Please remember to fill
in your survey 
Steve Simon
State Street Corporation
Questions!!!