Best Practices: Working With Metadata in WebFOCUS


Browse these Best Practices for working with metadata in WebFOCUS. 

Accessing Metadata

Best Practice: A benefit to using Business Views is that only the folder structure, not the real segments, are visible by end users from within WebFOCUS Designer or other ibi tools, and are available for use in other content creation requests.

Creating Synonyms

Best Practice: Although there is no limit to the number of synonyms you can place in an application folder, consider organizing synonyms within a series of folders based on their business use. For example, you can organize synonyms by business category, such as finance, or by user groups, such as sales analysts. When you create an organizational structure of application folders, you provide the users who are consuming the synonyms with a structured, simplified list of files from which they can choose.

Best Practice: If you are joining synonyms to create a cluster synonym, which is a synonym that is comprised of multiple tables connected by joins, consider organizing each of your base synonyms in a single application folder, and your joined or cluster synonyms in another application folder. This limits end-user access to the base synonyms application folder, keeping your base synonyms intact. You could then enable end-user access only to the cluster synonyms application folder and the metadata they need. This reduces the level of complexity that is exposed to end users. 

 

Using Business Views

Best Practice: A benefit to using Business Views is that only the folder structure, not the real segments, are visible by end users from within WebFOCUS Designer or other ibi tools, and are available for use in other content creation requests.

 

To learn all about working with metadata in WebFOCUS, see Working with Metadata in WebFOCUS