Introducing WebFOCUS Designer

This self-paced course will provide you with the necessary skills to create and modify charts in WebFOCUS Designer. It will also show you how to choose an appropriate chart style for your visualization needs.

You will learn how to:

WebFOCUS Designer is a web-based content creation and assembly tool that you can use to quickly and easily create content from the ground up. 
WebFOCUS Designer includes tools to blend your data with data flows, then use it to create charts, reports, interactive and responsive pages, and workbooks to explore your data and gain valuable insights.
Charts let you deliver your data story with visual punch.
Pages let you assemble content together to create data stories.
Portals let you deliver Pages to the right people, and even create their own pages.

You may notice that when you run a portal, it uses a fixed URL.  You and other users can access your portal at this URL, but only if you’ve made it available to them.  This allows you to protect sensitive information and share it only with the people you want to have it. 
To make content in your domain available, right-click it and click Publish.  Published content appears in color in the WebFOCUS Home Page, while unpublished content appears in grayscale.  

If you create multiple pages or workbooks, you can add them to a portal. Return to the WebFOCUS Home Page and, on the Action bar, click Designer and then click Portal.  Portals use a static URL that allows you to easily share access to your pages and workbooks, making your information available to anyone in your organization.  You can easily navigate between pages in a portal, providing easy access to a substantial amount of information.

For further analysis, you can add your charts and any other content in your environment to a page.  Pages are responsive and provide interactive filter prompts, allowing users to focus on the information that is most important to them.  You can also add multiple charts or reports to a single container using tabs, carousel slides, or an accordion, providing additional ways to arrange your content.

You can create different types of content to visualize your data in different ways.  

Available as a technical preview, reports allow you to organize, aggregate, and display precise data values in an easy-to-navigate tabular format.

In order to create that content, you’ll need access to data. Whether you’re using data from a spreadsheet or a database, WebFOCUS makes it easy to bring into your environment so you can start exploring it.
If you’re using a spreadsheet, CSV file, or other local file as a data source, do a data upload.  Click the Upload Data option on the Action bar and select the format that your data is saved in.

Organize your resources in WebFOCUS however works best for you.  You can use domains and folders to organize content pertaining to different departments, different data sources, or different types of content, and use user roles and groups to give different colleagues different levels of access to each one.  
User privileges are easily customizable.  Use the Security Center to add users to groups to quickly give them the same set of privileges, or manage what each user can access on a case-by-case basis.  

Everything that you need is available from the WebFOCUS Home Page.  The Home Page provides access to content saved in domains in your WebFOCUS Environment, and tools that you can use to create content and manage the resources that that content uses.
The content that you can create or access in each domain can be customized for users and groups.  You can see any content that has been published or shared with you in the WebFOCUS Explorer and quickly find the items you want using search functionality.

WebFOCUS Designer is a web-based development platform that you can use to quickly and easily create content from your data. WebFOCUS Designer enables you to manage your data using data flows and use that data to create charts and, as a technical preview, reports, and combine them in interactive and responsive pages and workbooks.  With WebFOCUS Designer, you can go from data discovery to content creation to content integration and application development all in a single tool, quickly and easily sharing your insights with others.