Creating Content

The Storyboard feature allows you to capture and preserve snapshots of your visualizations as you create them.

Each time you add something to the storyboard, it is placed onto a unique PowerPoint slide. When you click Show, you can open and review your slides in PowerPoint.

Since storyboards give you the ability to turn your visualizations into a PowerPoint presentation, you can modify your storyboard to create a customized demo. For example, you can rearrange or delete slides, or add titles and text.

When you pair infographics with the power and reporting capabilities of WebFOCUS InfoAssist, you can populate your visuals with data from your corporate sources and adopt key elements that are specific to different audiences. You can take full advantage of WebFOCUS Reporting Objects, which enable you to create all of your filters and WHERE conditions once and then quickly apply them to different data elements in your infographic. You can also reuse the same infographic template and modify it using different parameters in your Reporting Objects to quickly show changing data narrative.

Before you can begin creating infographic templates, you must first activate your WebFOCUS Infographics account. This activation requires you to register the site code associated with your Information Builders account that is licensed for WebFOCUS Infographics, as well as the corresponding email address and a password.

Before you begin creating any infographic, you should outline the information you want to share, and build your story. This planning includes considering the following elements that contribute to the success of your message.

You can begin creating your infographic template, once you have registered your WebFOCUS Infographics account. This allows you to access to WebFOCUS Infographics powered by Easelly, which provides a library of infographic templates, and a design tool that contains a WebFOCUS tag option and placeholder objects that can be linked to WebFOCUS charts once you upload your template into WebFOCUS.

You can access the Creation Tool in one of the following ways:

You add data to your infographic template using WebFOCUS InfoAssist. When you open the infographic template in InfoAssist, it becomes a compound document. Specifically, each object that you marked with a WebFOCUS tag in the template becomes a component of the compound document, where you can add your data. Text objects become report components, where you can add the data field to the SUM field container or Header.

You can modify your infographic at any time to reflect new data that is available to you. For example, you may create an infographic that sends information monthly or quarterly. Once you set up the initial infographic template, and Reporting Object, you can easily distribute an updated infographic.

In our example, we created an infographic for the first quarter of a year. You can reuse the same template and Reporting Object for subsequent quarters without making any extensive changes. All you need to do is modify the Reporting Object so it uses data for a new quarter.

You can make your newly created WebFOCUS Infographic available to other users by publishing it in your repository, sharing it with specific users and groups, or by distributing it using WebFOCUS ReportCaster. You can also distribute it using the burst option, which enables you to share specific sections of the infographic procedure with different users, based on the coordinated field in our infographic compound document. The following steps outline how you can share your infographic by email or burst it to members of your organization.

This section summarizes the build cycle for creating an extension and the structure and components of an extension.

Reference: Build Cycle for Writing an Extension

Creating an extension often involves cycles of writing, running, and then debugging code.

When you make changes to the properties.js file for your extension, you need to clear the WebFOCUS cache in order for those changes to be recognized. Clear the cache using the Clear cache link in the WebFOCUS Administration Console.

To see examples of everything that the chart extension API provides, look at com.ibi.simple_bar.js. It is divided into two main parts, chart rendering and extension configuration.

If you implement the extension API version 2, you can retrieve the field name and number format associated with a data bucket entry. To use API 2 and get a bucket entry field name or number format, an extension must declare that it implements extension API version 2 using the 'implements_api_version' entry in the info block of properties.json: