Enhancements


Chaining Filter Control Selections

When a content item or page includes multiple filters, chaining ensures that those filters always return valid values to your content. When you select a value from one of the filter controls, the other controls can be filter and updated based on the value that you select, if chaining is applied. For example if you have a filter for Sale Quarter chained to a filter for Sale Month, then when you select Q1 from the Sale Quarter filter, the Sale Month filter updates to show only the months of January, February, and March, and automatically excludes any month values that were not in Q1.

Navigating WebFOCUS Designer With Keyboard Controls

You can use keyboard commands to navigate through the WebFOCUS Designer interface, allowing you to perform certain content creation tasks without a mouse.

Press the Tab key to navigate between adjacent sections of the user interface, or press Shift+Ctrl+F10 to open a menu of sections of the user interface, allowing you to quickly jump from one section to another if they are not near each other. You can jump to one of the following areas of the interface:

Video: Getting Started With WebFOCUS

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.

Enabling In-Document Analytics Format

In InfoAssist, you can create content, including reports, charts, and dashboards that leverage the interactive capabilities of In-Document Analytics. Enabling this option provides your users with the ability to interact with and modify the content you created for their own analysis.

Note: If you use the Designer style, you will only be able to select the AHTML output format. 

How to Enable In-Document Analytics in InfoAssist

Using the Column Menu for Reports

The column menu displays when you click a column heading in a report. This provides you with access to formatting tools, chart type options, and filters, giving you more control over what displays in your report.

For a non-measure or dimension column, there are three primary sections to the column menu, as shown in the following image.

Running Content in Full-Screen Mode

When you run interactive content in maximized (full-screen) mode, there are a number of navigational features that you can use. For example, you can change the position of report and chart components in full-screen mode using drag and drop. To drag and drop, simply click the toolbar of any component and, holding the mouse, drag the object to the desired position.

In-Document Analytics Options for Charts

If you are working with a chart using the Chart Rollup Tool and you subsequently create a new chart, the new chart launches with a metadata tree, buckets, and the chart picker. This look and feel is similar to the common interface of WebFOCUS Designer, as shown in the following image.

The interface loads with the fields that you had originally selected. This makes it easy to select different fields to create different types of charts at run time.

Creating Content Using the Chart Rollup Tool

You can access the Chart Rollup Tool from the column menu in an interactive report that uses In-Document Analytics. There are three tabs: Chart, Rollup, and Pivot.  As you create charts, rollups, or pivot tables, each artifact displays in the analysis panel.

You can use the Chart Rollup Tool to select multiple group fields to generate the chart, rollup or pivot table. 

For the Chart tab, you can select a chart type, an aggregation, and a column for the chart, as shown in the following image.
 

Working with In-Document Analytics Output Formats in InfoMini

As of Release 8206, new output formats have been added to enhance your experience with select self-service products. For example, when working with InfoMini at run time via InfoAssist, you can select an output format for your content. Depending on the options that are enabled in the Administration Console, you may have access to two new formats: HTML Analytic Document (formerly known as AHTML) and PDF Analytic Document (formerly known as APDF).