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.
As you create charts in WebFOCUS Designer, you can preview them to see how your data displays in the chart, or to check the styling before publishing it or sharing it with others. At any point in the development of your chart, click Preview on the Quick Access Toolbar, as shown in the following image.
This executes your request and presents the results in the preview window.
Once you've reviewed your chart, you can exit the Preview using the Esc key.
You can change the data format for a field to change how the values are displayed. For example, you can change the number of digits or decimal places displayed in a number, the maximum length of a character string, the format of a date field, or apply a custom format by typing in the WebFOCUS language designation. You can apply format changes to fields from the data source that were added to a chart, as well as to define and compute fields.
In this data grid, we can see sales information for each day.
The Mobile Viewer is a web-based interface that you can use to access content and share it with other users, from a basic URL. When you use the Mobile Viewer, you do not need to save content as a Favorite or create a portal. Instead, you can organize content in a folder and distribute the URL to this folder to other users who can bookmark the URL and run that content online at any time.
Aside from the default templates that WebFOCUS Designer offers, you can create custom templates that reflect your unique layout. They are a great way to add structural variation or highly customized layouts to your page. Custom templates are also useful for organizations that have a set style for all of their pages. You must have administrator access to WebFOCUS to deploy custom templates.
While customizing your page, you can apply themes and styles to various page elements. The general theme of the page is defined by the Theme setting, which you can configure in the Properties panel, on the page level. A theme affects the look of the entire set of elements on the page, including colors, opacity, and typeface styles. Themes also dictate the color scheme for the Styles setting, which you can configure in the Properties panel, on the section and container levels.
There are three themes that WebFOCUS Designer offers:
The Global Name property is a powerful tool that allows you to quickly synchronize filter control values between different pages. The Global Name property is configured on the Settings tab of the Properties panel for a filter control. Once enabled, it allows you to match your filter selections across multiple pages at run time within the same browser session.
Parameters that contain dates are recognized by WebFOCUS Designer as date controls. An example of the date controls on the page is shown in the following image.
In this example, each of the controls is associated with a distinct parameter. One parameter uses the Greater Than WHERE condition, the other parameter uses the Less Then WHERE condition.
A slider control is a horizontal track with a marker that you can slide between a minimum and maximum value. This versatile control is often used to choose a value within a fixed range. An example of a slider control is shown in following image.
The Open dialog box opens.
When you have required parameters in your content, WebFOCUS Designer interprets them as required filter controls. Required controls are marked in red, prompting you to make a selection for the request to be processed. The image below shows an example of a required filters control.
With a required parameter in place, your content does not refresh until you select filter values.
There are two ways to create a required filter control:
