Creating a Visualization With Existing Content in WebFOCUS Designer

WebFOCUS Designer provides a wide variety of content creation options, allowing you to create new charts and reports and create pages with new content, or create pages using existing content. If you have created charts and reports in WebFOCUS Designer, InfoAssist, or other content creation tools, or if you have external items such as images and URLs, you can add them to a page that uses external content.

The following are a general set of steps that you can use to create content with existing items in WebFOCUS Designer:

1. On the WebFOCUS start page or the WebFOCUS Home Page, click the plus button and then click Assemble Visualizations.

   WebFOCUS Designer opens in a new browser tab.

2. In WebFOCUS Designer, select a template for the page. You can use a predefined template, or select Blank to build the page from scratch.
3. Add content to the page. Click Content on the sidebar and navigate to an item in the Resources panel, then drag onto the canvas. Alternatively, you can create a container for an item first by clicking Container on the sidebar and dragging a container on to the canvas, and then add content to the container.
4. Continue adding content to the page. You can create a new container by dragging one from the Container tab on the sidebar, or clicking Add visualization. You can then click Content on the sidebar to access items that you can add to containers on the page or drag directly onto the canvas.
5. If the content that you added to the page includes dynamic parameter filters, an indicator appears on the Filters tab on the sidebar. Select the Filters tab and then click Add all filters to page to create controls for all parameters in your content, or right-click a specific parameter in the list and click Add to page to create a control for it.
6. Select different areas of the page and style and format them using the options on the Properties panel.

   The entire page, sections, containers, filter controls, and filter cells all have their own set of styling and formatting options.

7. Once you have finished creating your visualization, save it. You can also preview the visualization to see run-time behavior by clicking Run in new window.

You can now add your visualization to a portal and share it with others. If you created a single content item instead of turning the visualization into a page, the item can be added to new visualizations as external content.