The canvas displays the current state of your content as you create it. You can select items in the canvas to edit them, drag resources such as fields or containers onto the canvas to add them to your content or page, and use on-chart filtering to create filters based on visual selections.
You can view and modify the properties of an item on the page, including content, containers, filter controls, and pages, from the Properties panel. The Properties panel includes configuration options on the Settings tab and styling and formatting options on the Format tab. The Properties panel appears to the right of the Resources panel, and changes based on the item that you have selected in the canvas.
The Properties panel for a bar chart is shown in the following image.
When assembling existing content into a visualization, you can use the Control tab to add a text label or Submit and Reset buttons to a filter control area, such as the Filter toolbar or a grid container.
The Control tab is shown in the following image.
You can add existing content to a visualization from the Content tab. This content can be a WebFOCUS procedure such as a chart or report, a URL, an image, and more.
The Container tab provides a selection of container types and widgets that you can use in your visualization.
The Container tab is shown in the following image.
Using this tab, you can select empty containers and widgets that you can drag to the canvas and populate with the content of your choice.
The types of containers available to you include the following:
The WebFOCUS Designer toolbar includes a set of options and controls that affect the entire interface or the entire visualization. The toolbar is shown in the following image.
The following table lists the controls that you can access from the WebFOCUS Designer toolbar.
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The Outline tab provides a high-level overview of all of the items in a visualization, including all pages, page sections, visualization containers, and content items. The Resources panel when the Outline tab is selected is shown in the following image.
When you first open WebFOCUS Designer, the visualization consists of a single content item. Only this item appears in the outline. You can right-click the item to view its WebFOCUS language source syntax.
The sidebar contains tabs that allow you to access, modify, and view properties for different elements and items in a visualization. Each tab in the sidebar displays a related set of resources and options in the Resources panel. The tab selected in the sidebar is indicated by a line next to it, as shown in the following image, where the Fields tab is selected.
The data flow defined in the Data tab is used to create content in the Visualization tab. In the Visualization tab, you can create charts and reports and arrange them on a page in different types of containers, or you can create a visualization from charts, reports, images, and more that you have created and saved previously. If you are creating a visualization with existing content, you can access items in your workspaces and add them to your visualization.
WebFOCUS Designer is divided into a Data tab, which provides options to prepare, profile, and join your data sources, and a Visualization tab, where you can create charts and reports using that data and arrange your content on a page. When creating a visualization with existing content, only the Visualization tab is available, since you do not specify a data source.
