When you upload a spreadsheet or delimited file with columns of repeating values, you can pivot the columns to rows.
After you upload or connect to data, you can Join data sources based on shared fields to enhance the data available to you.
Using WebFOCUS, it’s easy to upload your data to a target environment, so you can use it later for content creation or further analysis.
From the Home page, click the Get Data button.
The Get Data dialog box opens.
Click your upload file type. You can upload Delimited, Excel, JSON, or XML files.
An Excel file can contain a single worksheet or multiple worksheets. Delimited, JSON, and XML files are individual data sources.
Let’s upload a multi-sheet Excel file.
Select your file and click Open.
You can edit an existing basemap definition or add a custom basemap.
To add a new basemap or customize an existing basemap, select Basemap from the Object drop-down list.
The following is a description of the properties used for basemap configuration.
Is the name of the basemap.
Next to the name is an indicator of whether the basemap is a standard basemap or a customized basemap.
You can use the Refresh BI Portal drill-down option when creating content in InfoAssist to refresh and filter items in a portal, providing dynamic content with consistent behavior across an application.
To enable this behavior, you need to perform the following steps:
You can generate WebFOCUS Retail Demo sample data and metadata using the WebFOCUS Server or DataMigrator Server, and use it to test WebFOCUS features with a consistent, preconfigured data source. This sample data set is also used in many examples in technical topics and videos, allowing you to follow along to get the same results.
You can generate these sample files using the following steps.
Today, we’re going to introduce the HTML5 Chart Extensions Console, which is a way to create your own chart types using JavaScript and visualization libraries such as D3, and use those chart types in InfoAssist.
Even if you don’t have the coding skills necessary to create your own chart type, you can install a chart extension.
Once it is installed and enabled, WebFOCUS makes the chart type associated with that chart extension available in InfoAssist, giving you more charting options.
Hello, and welcome to this InfoAssist primer on styling and formatting the content in your visualizations. Visualizations contain multiple charts and reports and provide numerous filtering options at run-time, and can be added to storyboards to see how they change as you develop them. InfoAssist also provides many ways for you to add your own flair to your visualizations.
Today, we are going to introduce the mapping capabilities of InfoAssist. Maps provide you added insight to your data using location components. They help you easily decipher the where factor in your data. You can also compare maps to quickly identify unusual circumstances or new opportunities.
There are two types of maps available in InfoAssist: choropleths, which color entire regions based on a specified measurement, and proportional symbol or bubble maps, which can show measure values for specific points. Both can be created as chart-based maps or visualization-based maps.
Today, we will introduce the features of InfoMini, which is an interface that you can use to make your own modifications at run time using ribbon options that are enabled by the content creator.
