Creating Portals
You can create a portal structure in your repository, which you can populate by adding pages. You can also configure the option for users to create personal pages.
Business Intelligence Portal
Customizing Portals
All users can remove their own customizations from a portal. 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.
Creating Portals
The new generation Business Intelligence (BI) Portal is an analytical content management system that provides a flexible and interactive environment for both authors and consumers of data analytics. It allows users to access and share content, customize their portal experience, collaborate, and build sophisticated structures for data storytelling.
The key benefits of the BI portal are:
Working With Personal Pages
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.
Defining a Portal Structure
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 and workbooks 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 four content types that you can add to a portal:
Adding Icons to Portal Levels
You can further customize your portal by adding icons to pages and folders.
Video: How to Use Drill-Down Links to Filter a Portal
You can use the Refresh BI Portal drill-down option on content created in InfoAssist to filter content on multiple pages of a portal, allowing you to synchronize the data in many content items at once.
To set it up, create a report with drilldowns using the Refresh BI Portal option, set up associated parameters in the other content that you want to be affected, and then build your pages and add them to a portal.
Using Drilldowns to Refresh and Filter Items in a Portal
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:
Business Intelligence Portal PDF
This content describes how to use the Business Intelligence (BI) Portal in WebFOCUS 8. It is intended for designers who build complete, modern websites.
Adding Icons to Portal Levels
You can further customize your portal by adding icons to pages and folders.