How-to's

Depending on your version of WebFOCUS and your permissions, you may have access to additional metadata options, so you can edit previously created synonyms.

Reports allow you to display many precise data values in a familiar and easy to navigate layout. WebFOCUS Designer features a simple and streamlined interface that allows you to create and edit reports with just a few clicks.
To create a report, click Visualize Data on the WebFOCUS Home Page.

Filters allow you to limit the data that displays in your content to show only the information that is important or relevant to you.  You can create static filters, which are always applied to your content and cannot be edited at run-time, and prompted filters, which are dynamic parameter filters. This means that you can select the value or values to display at run time.

Filters allow you to limit the data that displays in your content to show only the information that is important or relevant to you.  You can create prompted filters, whose values can be selected at run-time, and static filters, which always apply the same value, allowing you to set consistent filter values to your content.
To create a static filter, drag the field that you want to select filter values for to the Filters bucket. You can filter for any field in your data, regardless of whether or not it is used in your content.

Insight allows you to make significant modifications to your content at run-time, and can be enabled with the click of a button.
Insight allows you to completely transform a chart at run-time. Enabling Insight just takes a single click of a button: once you’ve created a chart, just click Run with Insight in the Content area of the Settings tab.  You can enable Insight for stand-alone charts only. On the toolbar, click Preview to begin making your selections.

In this video we will learn how to hide certain containers from specific devices. 

This feature is especially useful if you need to hide large or complex content items from smaller devices.
To hide a container from specific devices, select it on the canvas, and, in the Properties panel, configure the Show On property. 

Notice that all device buttons are selected by default. Manually clear the buttons to hide the item from specific device types. Here we are hiding a large map from tablets and mobile phones.

As an alternative to static content, you can enable users to customize their content at run time and make pages more useful and interactive.
In WebFOCUS Designer, turn your visualization into a page. 

When creating a visualization from existing content, the information mode allows developers to determine where to find the content item displayed in a container and which parameters, if any, this content item accepts.  This is useful to determine which filters will affect which items, and where to access those items if you wish to edit them.
To enable the information mode, click the Info button on the Designer Toolbar.

Notice that the view of all content items on the canvas changes to display their paths in the repository and parameters configured for these items.

Dynamic grouping allows you to group related dimension values in your data into useful categories.
If your data includes values that it might be useful to combine, you can add them all to a group in a new grouped field. For example, the data in this pie chart might make more sense if the subregions in the United States were grouped together.  By grouping your data into useful categories, it becomes more manageable, better organized, and ultimately, more useful. 

Hello, and welcome to this video on Creating Charts. Using WebFOCUS Designer, you can create a wide variety of charts, which enable you to convey information in intuitive visual formats that make an immediate impact. 
You can add multiple charts of different types and with different fields to a visualization.  This lets you take advantage of the flexibility of the chart feature while meeting your needs for presentation, format, and portability.
To create a chart in a visualization, on the WebFOCUS Home Page, click Visualize Data.