Building Portals


Applying Themes to Portals

You can apply themes to a WebFOCUS BI 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 three themes that WebFOCUS offers:

Video: How to Use Drill-Down Links to Filter a Portal


You can use the Refresh BI Portal drill-down option on content created in InfoAssist to filter content on multiple pages of a portal, allowing you to synchronize the data in many content items at once.
To set it up, create a report with drilldowns using the Refresh BI Portal option, set up associated parameters in the other content that you want to be affected, and then build your pages and add them to a portal.

Business Intelligence Portal PDF

This content describes how to use the Business Intelligence (BI) Portal in WebFOCUS 8. It is intended for designers who build complete, modern websites.

Applying Themes to Portals

You can apply themes to a WebFOCUS BI 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 three themes that WebFOCUS offers:

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:

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.

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: