WebFOCUS Designer

Using WebFOCUS Designer you can create different types of content to visualize your data.  You can create new content and combine it into a visualization, or you can assemble a visualization from existing content.

Reports allow you to organize, aggregate, and display precise data values in a tabular format.

Charts allow you to display your data in a visual format for instant interpretation.  WebFOCUS includes a variety of chart enhancements so you can dig deeper into the chart for more precise analysis.  

Now that we’re situated in our environment, let’s get ready to create some content. In order to create that content, we’ll need access to data. Whether you’re using data from a spreadsheet or a database, WebFOCUS makes it easy to bring data into your environment so you can start exploring it.

If you’re using a spreadsheet, CSV file, or other local file as a data source, do a data upload.  Click the Get Data option on the Home Page and select the format in which your data is saved.

Organize your resources in WebFOCUS however works best for you.  You can use workspaces and folders to organize content pertaining to different departments, different data sources, or different types of content, and use user roles and groups to give different colleagues different levels of access to each one.

User privileges are easily customizable. Administrators can use the Security Center to add users to groups to quickly give them the same set of privileges, or manage what each user can access on a case-by-case basis. 

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.

WebFOCUS is a web-based development platform that you can use to quickly and easily create content from your data. 

WebFOCUS Designer, the primary tool, enables you to manage your data using data flows, create charts and reports, and combine them in interactive and responsive pages.  

With WebFOCUS, you can go from data discovery to content creation to content integration and application development all from a single platform, quickly and easily sharing your insights with others.

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 report, we can see sales information for each day. 

WebFOCUS Designer is a web-based content creation and assembly tool that you can use to quickly and easily create data visualizations from the ground up. 
WebFOCUS Designer includes tools to blend your data with data flows, then use it to create charts and reports, and then combine those into interactive and responsive pages.
Charts let you deliver your data story with visual punch.

Reports allow you to present more granular data in an easy to navigate format.

Pages let you assemble content together to create data stories.

When you assemble a new visualization from existing content, you can access the items in your repository from the Content tab. The items are visible in the form of a resources tree. 
To assemble a visualization from existing content, click the plus button on the default WebFOCUS Home Page and then click Assemble visualizations. Select a template to get started. 

When you click the Content tab on the sidebar, the Resource Selector displays the same domain or folder from which you created the page. 

Auto Drill is a feature that enables anyone who views your content to see related data by navigating field hierarchies.
You can use Auto Drill in charts using any data source with field hierarchies. Enabling Auto Drill is easy. In a chart, for example, simply create the chart using a field that is part of a hierarchy and, from the Content area on the Settings tab, turn on AutoDrill.

Today we will show you how to use Auto Linking.  Auto-linking allows you to dynamically link many charts and other content to a single chart, based on their common sort (BY) fields and parameters referenced in any filters. This saves you a lot of time and effort creating and maintaining drilldowns in your charts.
Auto Linking enables you to dynamically access a vast amount of information from a single chart, resulting in a library of interconnected, referable content.