10. Integrating forecasts

You can have historical and current data in one visual and may have configured your forecasts in a different Inforiver visual. Inforiver can detect and seamlessly integrate future periods from a bridge. Let's look at how to integrate forecasts with Infobridge.

To demonstrate this feature, we created a Forecast for 2025. Learn more about forecasting with Inforiver.

Creating an Inforiver forecast

The target visual contains historical/current sales for 2022, 2023, and 2024. Let's look at how to import the 2025 forecast from the previous visual into this target report.

Target visual with current and historical data

STEP 1: Create a bridge to access the forecast data from the visual. We have created a bridge titled FC2025.

Creating a bridge for the forecast

STEP 2: Create an Infobridge integration to the FC2025 bridge to access the forecast.

Creating an Infobridge integration

STEP 3: Use the Insert Measure option, to insert the forecast measure from the bridge into the target visual. Notice how Inforiver creates the time extension without any manual intervention.

Inserting the forecast measure from the bridge

The 2025 forecast is imported into the target report:

Forecast inserted with seamless time extension

The forecast columns inserted for previous years will be blank. We’ve hidden them using the column gripper options.