WebFOCUS Designer


Video: Uploading Data

This video demonstrates how to upload your data to a target environment.

From the Home Page, click the Data category in the Action Bar, and then click the Upload Data button.

From the Legacy Home Page, in the Resources tree, right-click a domain or folder, point to Upload, and then click Data.

You can also access the Upload workflow from within WebFOCUS Designer and WebFOCUS InfoAssist.

Video: Connecting to Data

This video demonstrates how to configure adapters to various data sources, and how to create synonyms and cluster synonyms.

You can also upload data within the same Connect to Data environment.

From the Home Page, click the Data category in the Action Bar, and then click the Connect button.
From the Legacy Home Page, in the Resources tree, right-click a domain or folder, point to Metadata, and then click Connect to Data.
You can also access the Connect to Data workflow from within WebFOCUS Designer and WebFOCUS InfoAssist.

Video: Joining Data Sources

Hello, and welcome to this video on Joining Data Sources. You can join and blend data from multiple tables into a single view, enabling you to create a larger integrated data structure from which you can report in a single request. From this blended data source, you can create charts that show integrated content, providing a broader range of data with which you can create charts.

Joining Data Sources

You can join and blend data from multiple tables into a single view. This enables you to create a larger integrated data structure from which you can report in a single request. Using this blended data source, you can create charts that show integrated content, providing you analytical and comparative capabilities.

Working With Large Data Sets

With WebFOCUS Designer, you can create content from very large data sets, which enables you to visualize and identify possible outliers or analytics that you may not see clearly in tabular report. There is no hard limit to the amount of data points that WebFOCUS can render on a chart.

Begin by connecting to your large data set or uploading it to WebFOCUS. The following image shows a large health care data set found on the web, mid-upload in WebFOCUS. It also highlights the number of rows that are available in this comma delimited (CSV) file.

Accessing Document Mode

In Document mode, you can:

  • Build a new document.
  • Open an existing document.
  • Generate a new document from an existing single report.

A blank InfoAssist canvas in Document mode is shown in the following image.

Blank InfoAssist Canvas in Document View

Procedure: How to Access Document Mode to Build a New Document

You can build new documents by accessing Document mode from the InfoAssist splash screen.

Creating an Active Technologies Component

This topic describes how to create a report, chart, or dashboard that is enabled for Active Technologies using InfoAssist.

These reports, charts, and dashboards use the full capabilities of Active Technologies. They are also referred to as active reports, charts, and dashboards.

Creating an Active Technologies Report

An active report is a self-contained report that is designed for offline analysis.

Creating Customized Report Outputs

You can create customized report outputs in InfoAssist. The standard output formats, which are found in the Format group on the Home tab, include: HTML, active report, PDF, active PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint. For charts, HTML5 is the default output format. For reports, you can also create the following custom report output formats from the Navigation group on the Format tab, including: Table, Table of Contents, Freeze, Pages on Demand, and OLAP.