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Building Beautiful Dashboards

Building Beautiful Dashboards. With Active Technologies. WebFOCUS 7.7.03. Brian Carter March 29, 2012. Agenda. Active Technologies Review Examples Characteristics Formatting Demonstration What’s new in 8?. Active Technologies. Why Active Technologies?.

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Building Beautiful Dashboards

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  1. Building Beautiful Dashboards With Active Technologies WebFOCUS 7.7.03 Brian Carter March 29, 2012

  2. Agenda • Active Technologies Review • Examples • Characteristics • Formatting • Demonstration • What’s new in 8?

  3. Active Technologies

  4. Why Active Technologies? • Safe and secure information delivery • HTML, Flex, and PDF • Interactive, graphical view of information • Disconnected analytics • Mobile ready for any device • Simple workflow

  5. Multiple Output Options Must support Flash

  6. Examples

  7. Examples

  8. Examples • Active Dashboards: built in Document Composer and InfoAssist

  9. Characteristics as of 7703 InfoAssist vs. Developer Studio

  10. Formatting

  11. What Control Do I Have? Active Report “Features” • Active Cache can be set for each individual report • Security must be set in the first report • Chart engine is critical for Mobile

  12. What Control Do I Have? Active Report “Format” • Initial Presentation can be any chart type! • Let your “theme” take care of colors • Lines per page is critical for dashboards • Menu options can be scaled back

  13. What Control Do I Have? Do your Active Charts look like this?

  14. What Control Do I Have? When they could look like this?

  15. Building Blocks for Formatting What’s in a Theme? • Style sheet  ActiveTabular • Styles the Active ”menu” • JavaScript  Active Charts • Changes the colors • Gradients are challenging!

  16. What Control Do I Have? • Utilize JavaScript files to control your Active Charts • Place the JS files in the APP you want to affect • See documentation: Active Technologies User Guide

  17. Best Practices • Create a “theme” • Use “dynamic” charting engine • Determine resolution and viewing device • Create templates • Select the proper output format

  18. Demonstration

  19. What Changes in WF8? • Google-like paradigm • Stunning HTML5 Charts • Active Charts styled with stylesheet • More chart types and interactivity • More control in InfoAssist

  20. Questions and Thank you!

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