Creating Analytical Applications

Introduction

Analytical applications, or apps for short, provide the ability to package multiple views with their publishing options, scheduled jobs, and trend jobs into a single portable Application.

Apps can be used for:

• packaging a related set of views that can easily be migrated, for example from development to test and production, and published together in a single action
• creating a standard solution for other customers

Apps allow you to package your work into a single collection. This collection can be exported into a single XML file, imported as a new app, and published as a single entity.

Creating a New App

From the View menu, select "Add a new App". The following dialog will appear:

• Name - the name of your app
• Description - an optional description for documentation purpose
• Instance - optional. If you maintain more than one copy (instance) of the app you can name each instance. For example, you can have a "dev" instance and a "production" instance

Adding Views to an App

Once you created an app, you'll see some new menu option. For example, when you're displaying a view, you'll see the option "Add this view to an app" on the File menu.

Select the app from the drop-down list.

Listing Apps

Select "Apps" from the Views menu to see a list of apps. The context menu in this list provides actions you can take with apps. These are detailed below.

• List app views - list all the views that belong to this app. A view can only belong to one app.
• List app data sources -
• List app scheduled jobs -
• List app track trend jobs -
• List app XML files -
• Delete app -
• Edit this app -
• Attach an XML file -
• Export app definition -
• Publish all app views -
• share this app -

⇦ Tracking Trend

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