Refreshing a Document

As discussed earlier in the chapter, a document contains multiple components that make up the formatted reports and analysis. When you want to retrieve new data from a data source, you are sending a query to a database.

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To refresh a query, select the Refresh Data button on the web viewer toolbar.

NOTE A document may be set to force a query refresh as soon as you open the document. Also, the report author decides whether a shared document initially contains data or is blank.

When Web Intelligence refreshes a query, it refreshes the entire result set. For example, let’s assume you have a document that shows year-to-date sales. ...

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