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.
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.
