The WebFOCUS Mobile apps empower users of iPad and iPhone devices, or Android phones and tablets, with robust, innovative, easy-to-use reporting and analysis. The apps allow users to manipulate data from a variety of sources in an almost unlimited number of ways in just a couple of taps. Users can also manage their business dashboards and content for viewing and interactive analysis, even when they are not connected to the Internet.
In order to view Favorites content in the WebFOCUS Mobile apps, you must add a FAVES tag to it. To add a tag to your content, from the Home Page, in the Explorer area, right-click a content item that you want to assign to a FAVES tag, and then click Properties. In the Properties panel, click the Advanced tab. In the Tags field, type FAVES, and then click Save.
You are not required to save items to Favorites to view them on mobile devices since the Home Page is optimized for viewing on mobile devices and automatically adjusts to a smaller screen or browser width. There are several interface and functionality changes that occur when you switch from the full view to the mobile view.
You can create and share a URL to your Favorites, allowing you or other users to access your Favorites directly.
In a desktop or mobile browser, type the address below.
You can add items to Favorites from any domain or folder if you have permission to do so.
To designate an item as a Favorite, right-click the item, and click Add to Favorites.
To remove an item as a Favorite, right-click the item and click Remove Favorite.
If you right-click the item from the Home Page, you can select from the following options, depending on file type:
WebFOCUS Mobile allows you to share your content so that anyone in your organization can have access to the data they need, when they need it, without the use of a physical computer. Your content can be viewed across mobile devices, whether through the native mobile browser, or the Mobile Faves app for iOS or Android devices.
This section outlines several best practices for embedding BI.
Another important consideration is the deployment topology, which relates to where the embedded application and WebFOCUS reside. Often times both are deployed on or behind a single web host. This includes when both are deployed on the same application server (as depicted by Case 1 in the following diagram) and when they are deployed on different servers, but accessed from a single web server or load balancer (Case 2).
An important developer consideration for an embedded BI application is how to implement single sign-on (SSO) between the embedded application and WebFOCUS so that the user is not required to provide credentials on multiple occasions. There are several options to consider, including:
In this content and accompanying embedded BI demo application, you will learn how the Trusted Ticket Authentication feature in WebFOCUS can be used to implement SSO.
The WebFOCUS Embedded Business Intelligence User's Guide introduces WebFOCUS embedded business intelligence (BI) and includes comprehensive content on WebFOCUS RESTful Web Services for developers and WebFOCUS Open Portal Services, which are key components in embedded BI solutions.
WebFOCUS embedded Business Intelligence (BI) provides the capability of incorporating WebFOCUS content, analytics, and functionality (features) into an external application.
In understanding techniques and considerations for embedding business intelligence, there are several approaches and techniques that can be used to embed business intelligence (BI) into an external application, including:
