Release Features


Creating Storyboards

The Storyboard feature allows you to capture and preserve snapshots of your visualizations as you create them.

Each time you add something to the storyboard, it is placed onto a unique PowerPoint slide. When you click Show, you can open and review your slides in PowerPoint.

Since storyboards give you the ability to turn your visualizations into a PowerPoint presentation, you can modify your storyboard to create a customized demo. For example, you can rearrange or delete slides, or add titles and text.

Video: Enhanced Designer Workflows and UI

Using an integrated workflow, you can create a visualization in WebFOCUS Designer from top to bottom. You can start by selecting a data source, joining additional data sources, creating multiple content items, and organizing them on a page. You can also utilize numerous customization options, from a wide selection of chart types, to various filtering options, and even custom CSS and JavaScript to make your visualization your own.

Using the Editor

The Editor enables you to create, view, and edit the source code for WebFOCUS procedures (FOCEXECs), Master, HTML, JavaScript, WebFOCUS StyleSheet, Cascading Style Sheet, Text, SQL, R, and Python files.

Additionally, the Editor supports user-friendly features, such as syntax highlighting, code folding, line numbering, autocomplete, and display of a status bar and indent guides. These features speed productivity by enabling better clarity in helping you understand, debug, and work with your source code.

Syntax Highlighting

Syntax highlighting improves readability and makes debugging procedures easier. This color-coded highlighting is applied to the source code for WebFOCUS procedures to distinguish keywords, comments, functions, arithmetic and logical operators, constants, and quoted strings.

Highlighting is supported for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, R, Python, and SQL files.

The following image is an example of highlighting in a WebFOCUS procedure (FOCEXEC) that is opened in the Editor.

Previewing Output

The Preview option on the Editor toolbar lets you run and display a preview of your report or HTML page. This option is only available for FOCEXEC files and HTML pages.

To run and preview the output of a procedure in the Editor, click the Preview button on the toolbar.

The procedure runs and the output displays, as shown in the following image.

Using Search and Replace in the Editor

The Search button on the toolbar opens the Search and Replace pane, where you can search for and replace text in the file you are currently editing.

You can click the Search icon again to toggle the Search and Replace pane off or on. You can also close the Search and Replace pane by clicking the X in the upper-right corner of the screen.

The Search and Replace pane is shown in the following image.

The Search and Replace pane contains the following options: