Building Portals


Applying Themes to Portals

You can apply themes to a WebFOCUS portal to customize its look and feel. Themes can be applied to new portals inside the New Portal dialog box or to existing portals inside the Edit Portal dialog box. A theme affects the look of the entire set of elements of the portal, including colors, opacity, and typeface styles.

There are four themes that WebFOCUS offers:

Customizing Portals

All users can remove their own customizations from a portal. Authors, developers, and administrators can also remove customizations for all users. Customizations are made when users customize unlocked content inside base portal pages. Personal pages and edits to personal pages are not considered customizations and, therefore, they are not removed.

Defining a Portal Structure

Each portal is a conglomerate of various parts that you can use to make your portal a comprehensive representation of your data narrative. For example, you can add pages to your portal to showcase data. You can create sections and sub-sections to better organize your content. The structure of a portal can be as simple or as complex as required by your specific purpose. There are three content types that you can add to a portal:

Using the InfoSearch Index Builder

In order to access the Ask WebFOCUS user interface and perform InfoSearch searches, there must be at least one dimensional index present in the WebFOCUS software that corresponds to at least one domain. This is done by creating a dimensional data procedure in each domain that defines the dimensions that will be used to search your repository content.

Dimensional data procedures must contain the following components:

Customizing Portals

All users can remove their own customizations from a portal. Developers and administrators can also remove customizations for all users. Customizations are made when users customize unlocked content inside base portal pages. Personal pages and edits to personal pages are not considered customizations and, therefore, they are not removed.

Creating Portals

The new generation Business Intelligence (BI) Portal is an analytical content management system that provides a flexible and interactive environment for both authors and consumers of data analytics. It allows users to access and share content, customize their portal experience, collaborate, and build sophisticated structures for data storytelling.

The key benefits of the BI portal are:

Working With Personal Pages

Personal pages are created at run time by the user and allow the new level of versatility in a way users organize and use portals. Personal pages remain visible only to the user that created them, unless the user shares them. Personal pages reside inside the My Pages folder in the repository.

Defining a Portal Structure

Each portal is a conglomerate of various parts that you can use to make your portal a comprehensive representation of your data narrative. For example, you can add pages and workbooks to your portal to showcase data. You can create sections and sub-sections to better organize your content. The structure of a portal can be as simple or as complex as required by your specific purpose. There are four content types that you can add to a portal: