This section describes how to import several sample users for testing/verification purposes and further explore the Retail Samples content.
The Security Center opens.
This section describes how to create the WebFOCUS Retail database and metadata that is used by content in the Retail Samples domain. You may use any of the available WebFOCUS Reporting Server data adapter options that are available to you. For demonstration purposes, Microsoft SQL Server is used in this procedure.
In WebFOCUS Release 8207 and higher, the Retail Samples zip file is available from the following URL: https://webfocusinfocenter.informationbuilders.com/tech/archived_wf_pkgs/retail_samples.zip
The Retail Samples zip file contains a folder with the following components:
In this video, we will learn how to create and use WebFOCUS Portals. The WebFOCUS portal is a flexible and interactive content management system that users can use to access and share content, customize their portal experience, collaborate, and build sophisticated structures for data storytelling. To create a portal, select a workspace or folder, click the Application tab in the Action Bar, and then click Portal. In the New Portal dialog box, give your portal a name and configure the design of your portal, such as banner option, logo, layout, and theme.
You can use the Refresh BI Portal drill-down option when creating content in InfoAssist to refresh and filter items in a portal, providing dynamic content with consistent behavior across an application.
To enable this behavior, you need to perform the following steps:
You can further customize your portal by adding icons to pages and folders.
You can apply themes to a WebFOCUS portal to customize its look and feel. Themes can be applied to new portals inside the New Portal dialog box or to existing portals inside the Edit Portal dialog box. A theme affects the look of the entire set of elements of the portal, including colors, opacity, and typeface styles.
There are four themes that WebFOCUS offers:
All users can remove their own customizations from a portal. Authors, developers, and administrators can also remove customizations for all users. Customizations are made when users customize unlocked content inside base portal pages. Personal pages and edits to personal pages are not considered customizations and, therefore, they are not removed.
Personal pages are created at run time by the user and allow the new level of versatility in a way users organize and use portals. Personal pages remain visible only to the user that created them unless the user shares them. Personal pages reside inside the My Pages folder in the repository.
Each portal is a conglomerate of various parts that you can use to make your portal a comprehensive representation of your data narrative. For example, you can add pages to your portal to showcase data. You can create sections and sub-sections to better organize your content. The structure of a portal can be as simple or as complex as required by your specific purpose. There are three content types that you can add to a portal:
