Introducing WebFOCUS Designer


Video: Benefits of WebFOCUS


The New WebFOCUS makes business analytics insights available to everyone.  Whether on-premise or in the cloud, WebFOCUS is highly scalable.  With the Total Access Cloud, getting set up is easy and deployments are simpler, with greater flexibility to handle growth and demand.
It’s also easy to use.  You can quickly and easily go through an entire data exploration process using the new enhanced Designer tool, from accessing your data and data wrangling through content creation and application development.

Video: How to Access Technical Resources

As you use the new WebFOCUS, be sure to check out the release resources in the KnowledgeBase. These topics and technical videos will support you as you perform specific tasks, including those mentioned in this Getting Started video, so you can be successful with WebFOCUS Designer as quickly as possible.

Using WebFOCUS Designer PDF

WebFOCUS Designer is a web-based development platform that you can use to quickly and easily create content from your data. Discover how you can go from data discovery to content creation and application development all from a single tool.

This content includes all WebFOCUS Designer topics and is intended for all users.

Navigating the WebFOCUS Home Page

The Home Page is the default landing page that opens when you first sign in to WebFOCUS. It serves as a centralized place for creating, organizing, and sharing content, performing administrative tasks, scheduling reports and procedures, and working with your data. These functions are controlled by the permissions that are assigned to role of a user. To learn more about the available roles in WebFOCUS, see the WebFOCUS Security and Administration technical content.

Video: WebFOCUS Designer Content Enhancements

WebFOCUS Designer makes it easy to enhance your content by providing additional content creation and customization options.  You can create calculated fields using an expanded set of functions, allowing you to manipulate your data in nearly endless ways. You can also filter your report using aggregated measure and dimension fields and use a slider to select values for those filters in a page. Once you’ve created your content, you can then output it in a variety of browser-based and standard office suite formats, and even allow users to select the format that they want to use.

Video: Getting Started With WebFOCUS Designer

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, 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.

Exploring Workbook Creation Options

A workbook combines a page and multiple charts and reports into a single file. Using a workbook, you can create a data flow to engage in data discovery, create charts and reports to analyze that data, and add multiple charts and reports to a page for a broader perspective. Using a workbook is a quick way to explore your data in a single session, providing the ability to save multiple content components together for easy access.

Introducing WebFOCUS Designer

WebFOCUS Designer is a web-based development platform that you can use to quickly and easily create content from your data. WebFOCUS Designer provides tools to manage your data using data flows and use that data to create charts, interactive and responsive pages, and workbooks.

Note: Using a Technical Preview feature, you can also use WebFOCUS Designer to create basic tabular reports. For more information, contact your Information Builders representative.

Exploring Chart Creation Options

WebFOCUS Designer enables you to quickly and easily create many different types of charts. You can build charts that use filters, matrix rows and columns, calculated fields, include run-time behavior such as Insight and Auto Drill, and many other customizable features. These charts can be added to a page or workbook with other charts to provide an expanded view of your data.

Using the Fields Tab

The fields in your data source are available from the Fields tab. By default, if the data source uses folders to organize the fields that it contains, these folders are reflected in the Fields tab. This folder organization is called a business view. For dimension fields, these folders could be field hierarchies defined in the data source or segments in the data based on different tables that have been joined together. Measures can also be grouped based on segments.