Creating Content


Video: How to Set Conditional Styling Based on Data Values

When a chart or report contains a large number of distinct values, it may be difficult to quickly evaluate the most significant values.  One way to automatically highlight important information is to use condition styling. Conditional styling is a feature that allows you to apply special formatting to values in a chart or report that match your specified criteria.
To apply conditional styling to applicable values in a chart or report, right-click the field whose values you want to conditionally style, and click Conditional Styling.

Video: How to Create Dynamic Content With Field List Parameters

Dynamic parameter filters, such as prompted filters, allow users to personalize and customize their view of your content by selecting which values display at run time. Field list parameters take this filtering behavior one step further, allowing users to select which fields display at run time, giving them even more control over the information that displays in your chart or report.

Merging Data Into an Existing Data Source With ON TABLE MERGE

The ON TABLE MERGE clause in a TABLE or TABLEF command enables you to insert, update, and delete records in an existing single-segment data source.

Data sources that support insert, update, and delete operations, either for individual records or bulk load, can take advantage of the full set of options for ON TABLE MERGE. Relational data sources support all of these options. Other data sources, such as delimited and fixed format sequential data sources, can only have records appended to the existing data source.

349S8207: Transform Your Reporting Into Infographic Storytelling (Self-Study)

This course will show you how to transform any WebFOCUS data source into visually insightful infographics, delivering important communications to your employees and customers. You will learn to create short, concise Infographics and deliver stories that generate instant comprehension.

You will learn:

347S8207: Creating Charts in WebFOCUS Designer (Self-Study)

This self-study course teaches you how to create and modify chart visualizations using WebFOCUS Designer, including how to choose the best chart style for your specific use case.

Controlling the File Compression of Interactive Reports

When creating interactive reports enabled with In-Document Analytics capabilities, you can use the ARCOMPRESS setting to modify file compression and generate output more quickly. You can only modify the file compression of interactive reports that use the Designer style of In-Document Analytics, identified by the setting ARVERSION=2. 

Syntax: How to Control File Compression to Improve Performance

To control the file compression of interactive reports that use In-Document Analytics, use

SET ARCOMPRESS={ON | OFF}

where:

Creating HTML5 Charts With WebFOCUS Language

This content explains how to use the JavaScript® Chart Engine (Js:Chart). Js:Chart draws a chart in an HTML environment using a defined data set and JavaScript® Object Notation (JSON) definitions. The JSON object(s) define chart properties that control the appearance of the chart and chart objects.

Creating HTML5 Charts With TIBCO WebFOCUS® Language PDF

This content explains how to use the JavaScript® Chart Engine (Js:Chart). Js:Chart draws a chart in an HTML environment using a defined data set and JavaScript® Object Notation (JSON) definitions. The JSON object(s) define chart properties that control the appearance of the chart and chart objects.

Video: How to Pass Parameter Values to a Page Using a URL Drilldown

You can pass parameter values from a chart or report to a target page using a URL drilldown. The value that you click or select is passed to the page as part of its run-time URL. The page opens with your selections already applied as filter values, creating a seamless transition between content items.

Video: How to Use Report Patterns

WebFOCUS Designer includes three common patterns that you can instantly apply by selecting one from the report picker. By using report patterns with different combinations of fields in the Row, Column, and Summary buckets, you can quickly transform a report into a number of common layouts.
First, let’s create a default, standard report, by adding Product Category and Sale Quarter to the Rows bucket and Quantity Sold, Cost of Goods, and Revenue to the Summary bucket.