WebFOCUS Infographics

When you pair infographics with the power and reporting capabilities of WebFOCUS InfoAssist, you can populate your visuals with data from your corporate sources and adopt key elements that are specific to different audiences. You can take full advantage of WebFOCUS Reporting Objects, which enable you to create all of your filters and WHERE conditions once and then quickly apply them to different data elements in your infographic. You can also reuse the same infographic template and modify it using different parameters in your Reporting Objects to quickly show changing data narrative.

Before you begin creating any infographic, you should outline the information you want to share, and build your story. This planning includes considering the following elements that contribute to the success of your message.

You can begin creating your infographic template, once you have registered your WebFOCUS Infographics account. This allows you to access to WebFOCUS Infographics powered by Easelly, which provides a library of infographic templates, and a design tool that contains a WebFOCUS tag option and placeholder objects that can be linked to WebFOCUS charts once you upload your template into WebFOCUS.

You can access the Creation Tool in one of the following ways:

You add data to your infographic template using WebFOCUS InfoAssist. When you open the infographic template in InfoAssist, it becomes a compound document. Specifically, each object that you marked with a WebFOCUS tag in the template becomes a component of the compound document, where you can add your data. Text objects become report components, where you can add the data field to the SUM field container or Header.

You can modify your infographic at any time to reflect new data that is available to you. For example, you may create an infographic that sends information monthly or quarterly. Once you set up the initial infographic template, and Reporting Object, you can easily distribute an updated infographic.

In our example, we created an infographic for the first quarter of a year. You can reuse the same template and Reporting Object for subsequent quarters without making any extensive changes. All you need to do is modify the Reporting Object so it uses data for a new quarter.

You can make your newly created WebFOCUS Infographic available to other users by publishing it in your repository, sharing it with specific users and groups, or by distributing it using WebFOCUS ReportCaster. You can also distribute it using the burst option, which enables you to share specific sections of the infographic procedure with different users, based on the coordinated field in our infographic compound document. The following steps outline how you can share your infographic by email or burst it to members of your organization.