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:
Sharing is a feature that is generally used to enable users to share private content residing in their My Content folders with authorized colleagues.
WebFOCUS makes shared resources available to other appropriate users through a special Shared Content folder. The Shared Content folder is a virtual folder that appears automatically in a folder whenever there is shared content inside that folder.
Each domain in the repository, except the Public domain, comes with the private My Content folder. Whenever you create content inside the My Content folder, this content remains private and only visible to you, unless you share it with other users and groups. You can share content in one of two ways:
You can create shortcuts to repository files and Master files. Once a shortcut to a Master file is created, you can use it to build visualizations and reports. Once a shortcut to a repository file is created, you can copy, delete, edit, and run this item. You can also publish and share your shortcuts to make them available for other users and groups.
Note: Only users with the opShortcut privilege are able to create shortcuts. For more information on privileges, see the WebFOCUS Security and Administration technical content.
You can create URLs to webpages and store them within the repository. These URLs can further enhance analytics, by providing an additional interactive context to your data. You can run a URL from the Home Page, use it in a portal, or add it to a personal page. If your URL is optimized for use in an iFrame, you can embed it within a container on a page. You can also publish and share a URL to make it available to other users and groups.
In addition to creating content using WebFOCUS, you can upload other files, such as images and documents. These files can be used to enhance visualizations and shared with other users and groups.
You can further customize your Home Page by using the Favorites feature. Favorites can be reports, graphs, hyperlinks, Reporting Objects, and other item types. The Favorites feature provides a convenient and fast way to find and use your favorite content, without having to search for it. You can interact with your favorite content and view its properties, and also access Favorites from a mobile device.
From the Home Page, Favorites appear in the Favorites view, as shown in the following image.
Charts allow you to present information graphically, using such visual cues as color, size, and position to convey relationships between measures (numeric fields to be aggregated) and dimensions (categories) and to identify trends and outliers. You can create a wide variety of charts. For example, you can review your data (Gross Profit and Product Category) using different chart types (for example, bar chart, area chart, or line chart). The chart options give you an edge in deciding which chart to use.
As you work with your chart, you can make modifications that improve the display of your chart, highlighting the layout and presentation of the chart components. Some of the formatting options include:
You can use the font formatter in WebFOCUS Designer to control how fonts are displayed in your chart. This is a quick way to apply styling, colors, or a specific font type for any text within your chart. The font formatter displays in different areas of the Style tab (for example, Legend, Axis, Series, and Matrix options). Depending on the chart type and what you want to format, you can use these options to enhance the fonts in your charts. The font formatter is shown in the following image.
