You can target a specific page or sub-page, while running a portal from an alias URL. This URL can then be saved and bookmarked similarly to any other page on the web. To learn more about creating an alias, see Creating Portals.
You can target a specific page or sub-page while running a portal from an alias URL. This URL can then be saved and bookmarked similarly to any other page on the web. To learn more about creating an alias, see Creating Portals.
You can run a portal from the following locations on the WebFOCUS start page:
You can use the URL feature in combination with the Workbench preset to place the Workbench page inside your Designer portal. This page can add flexibility to your portal application and serve as a launchpad for running content and navigating domains and folders within your repository.
Creating the Workbench portal page is done in three stages:
When you are finished using the Retail Samples workspace, you can delete or unpublish this workspace. Deleting the Retail Samples workspace will also delete the Retail Samples groups and BI Portal, but not the retail_samples application folder on the WebFOCUS Reporting Server.
The following image shows the Delete Workspace - Retail Samples dialog box.
If you are licensed for WebFOCUS Mobile products, then you can use the Mobile Viewer to access content from any folder in your WebFOCUS repository from a simple, touch-based interface.
Access the following URL from your mobile device:
http://yourserver:port/ibi_apps/mv/path_to_your_folder
where:
Is the host name or IP address of the system that is hosting WebFOCUS.
Is the port number used by WebFOCUS on the deployed system.
This section describes how to import several sample users for testing/verification purposes and further explore the Retail Samples content.
The Security Center opens.
This section describes how to create the WebFOCUS Retail database and metadata that is used by content in the Retail Samples domain. You may use any of the available WebFOCUS Reporting Server data adapter options that are available to you. For demonstration purposes, Microsoft SQL Server is used in this procedure.
In WebFOCUS Release 8207 and higher, the Retail Samples zip file is available from the following URL: https://webfocusinfocenter.informationbuilders.com/tech/archived_wf_pkgs/retail_samples.zip
The Retail Samples zip file contains a folder with the following components:
Before you can announce the availability of the portal for general use, you must first ensure that the appropriate theme and logo are assigned to the portal for users from each tenant group.
Remember that the portal fails to display content properly when you run it in the centralized enterprise workspace. You must base your testing on how the portal appears to users from each tenant group, not in the centralized workspace.
