Enhancements

Auto Drill is a feature that allows you to drill into values from fields that are part of a data hierarchy, to see which subcategories within that hierarchy contribute to the values that you drill into, and to what extent. Drill Anywhere, meanwhile, resembles an enhanced version of Auto Drill. It does not require the fields in your initial content to be part of a data hierarchy, and it allows you to drill to any field in your data source, providing a powerful tool to explore relationships between values in different fields.

Conditional styling is a feature that applies unique styling to cells in a chart or report when their values meet specified criteria. This allows you to highlight values that are especially high or low, or are higher and lower than those in another field, making it easy to spot important information in your content. You can even use conditional styling to add drill down links to values that match your set criteria, allowing users who run the chart or report to access additional context and information pertaining to those records.

Fields that include both the date and a timestamp, as opposed to just the date, are considered to have a date-time format. Date-time fields are considered a separate field type from regular date fields. The timestamp in a date-time value can be precise to the millisecond, microsecond, or nanosecond.

In some cases, instead of having a list of several possible filter values, you may want to create a filter in which only two values are available. Sometimes, this will be a Boolean expression, in which a pre-defined flag can be set to true or false. At other times, you may have a field that has only two available values, and you may want only one or the other to be available at a given time. In each of these cases, a toggle control can be a straightforward way to present these filters. The toggle control is available in pages assembled from existing content items.

Field list parameters are a powerful tool that allows you to provide users with a selection of fields that they can use at run-time to build charts and reports within a framework that you provide. Field list parameters can be added to buckets in place of fields in a chart or report. At run time, users select the fields that they want to display, giving them the power to choose the data that is represented by and displayed in your content. You can complement these field list parameters with fields that always appear in your content, providing a mix of customizable and static content.

You can target a specific page or sub-page, while running a portal from an alias URL. This URL can then be saved and bookmarked similarly to any other page on the web. To learn more about creating an alias, see Creating Portals.

You can target a specific page or sub-page while running a portal from an alias URL. This URL can then be saved and bookmarked similarly to any other page on the web. To learn more about creating an alias, see Creating Portals.

You can run a portal from the following locations on the WebFOCUS start page:

By default, when you create a chart that has a dimension on an axis, missing values are not displayed on that axis. For example, if you create a bar chart showing revenue by product category, but there are no revenue values, including zero, for televisions, then televisions will not appear on the horizontal axis in the bar chart.

A gauge is a simple chart that allows you to display basic KPI values. You can choose to display these values with a standard or simplified dial graphic, or alone, as text only. The default, simple, gauge type is shown in the following image.