Using the WebFOCUS Home Page


Accessing Folder and Item Properties

On the WebFOCUS Home Page, authorized users can select the Properties option to review information about a folder or item, including when it was created, the date it was last modified, title, name, and settings that control the Reporting Server and applications it will access. There are also settings that control the functionality available to users when they access the folder, run, or schedule an item.

The following image shows the Properties panel for a stacked bar chart.

Video: How to Navigate the Home Page

The tools that you use to create this content are available from the WebFOCUS Home Page. The Home Page provides access to four views where you can access different content arranged in different ways. The Home view shows recent content, content that you’ve marked as a favorite, and portals. My Workspace shows private content that you’ve created. Shared with Me shows private content created by other users that has been shared with you. Workspaces shows the workspaces in your environment that are available to you.

Video: How to Use Favorites

You can customize your Home Page by using Favorites. 

The Favorites feature provides a convenient and fast way to find and use your favorite content, without having to search for it.

From the Home Page, Favorites appear in the Favorites section of the Home view.
    
From the Legacy Home Page, Favorites appear in the Resources tree. Favorites can be reports, graphs, hyperlinks, Reporting Objects, and other item types. 

You can add items to Favorites from any view of the Home Page. 

Video: How to Drag and Drop Folders and Files

In the WebFOCUS Home Page, you can easily move files and folders from one folder to another by dragging and dropping. This saves you the effort of cutting and pasting or copying and pasting, allowing you to quickly reorganize your content as needed.

Video: Accessing Global Resources

In the WebFOCUS Home Page, In the Workspaces view, you can access the Global Resources folder.  This folder contains files that are used to style and format your content in WebFOCUS Designer and Portal Page Designer. This folder is grouped into three subfolders. The Page Templates subfolder contains Page Templates that you can use in WebFOCUS Designer when you create a page. The Standard subfolder contains the templates that come with WebFOCUS, while the Custom subfolder allows you to create a new page layout to use as a template using WebFOCUS Designer.

User's Guide PDF

TIBCO WebFOCUS® is the reporting engine that turns corporate data into meaningful information. It enables any executive, manager, analyst, employee, partner, or customer to execute smarter decision-making. The platform delivers many rich new capabilities and integrates the four critical elements that any enterprise needs: business intelligence, performance management, advanced analytics, and data integrity.

This content includes topics to to help you connect to and edit data, author reports and visualizations, perform predictive and location analytics, build applications, run and schedule procedures, share your data, and more. 

Video: New WebFOCUS Home Page

This video introduces the newly redesigned Home Page, which features an updated look and improved navigation. When you sign into WebFOCUS, the Home Page opens with the Home view displayed by default. This view provides quick access to recent items, your favorite content, and all of the portals that currently available to you in the repository. Trial users can also see the Getting Started carousel, where you can see the quick start guides and videos. You can scroll through each of these carousels or click the View All button to see all of the items in this section.

Sharing Content in WebFOCUS

Each workspace in the repository comes with the private My Content folder. Whenever you create content inside the My Content folder, it automatically displays in the My Workspace view. 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:

Uploading Files

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.

Creating Blogs

You can create blogs and include them in your pages and portals. A blog is an interactive content item that operates as commonly seen blogs on the internet and allows users to post and view comments. Blogs abide by the same security rules that apply to other items in the repository. You can publish, unpublish, hide, and move blogs between workspaces or folders. You can also share blogs with other users and groups.

Note: This feature is available in the full version of WebFOCUS.