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Hexman
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I am basically a OBIEE Dashboard developer and now moved to WF for an Internal Project. In OBIEE I was creating all the dashboard components using the Inbuilt features provided by OBIEE.

In WebFOCUS I am not finding any GUI components or Features which are helping me to develop a similar dashboard what I developed using OBIEE. What I heard from the experts here is I have to develop all the HTML pages using the HTML composer and the FEX files and then associate it as per the requirement.

Can anyone help me with more suggestions and tips to make it lesser use of code and achieve it using any Inbuilt dashboard Functionality that WebFOCUS supports.

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Hexman
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Susannah,
I have the MRE component on my Machine.
Yes i have taken the classes on MRE and Webfocus.


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Ramkumar - Webfous
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Susannah, With view builder, Is it possible to create interactive dashboards having input elements like list boxes, dynamically changing graphs, reports, with drill through functionality etc.

As per my understanding, with Dashboard View builder you can only create tabs and associate the developed HTML files or procs with every tab. Please correct me, if I am wrong.

Thanks.


Thanks,

Ramkumar.
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Hexman
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Susannah,As Ram has stated on the above Reply I am aware about the Dashboard component that WebFOCUS internally supports where we can develop HTML screens and can Link them on the dashboard screen. I am looking into a dashboard where the user Interaction is more and the Reports and graphs will get changed dynamically upon the user selection changes.


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Francis Mariani
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All this dynamism is something you have to build in screens and reports via Developer Studio - there is nothing in B.I. Dashboard other than setting up a framework.


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Hexman
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To summarize the conversation.
1) WebFOCUS don’t support any tools or GUI options for user Interface Dashboards.
2) We can’t achieve ordering on Data columns (Other than AHTML)
3) Entire dashboard cannot be exported to a PDF or Excel without separate coding for PDF and EXCEL.
To achieve the same in WebFOCUS we need to create HTML pages , GRAPH files, Report files, Drill Down reports and then associate them to the Dashboard via View builder.


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Alex
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Ref your #2 comment. Sorting on any given data column can be done by either using OLAP functionality or by coding a drill down to resort selected columns.


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Twanette
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I think you have many options in WebFOCUS - it all depends on which modules you are licensed to use.
e.g.

1) Build each "component" as a separate fex/procedure, and then "arrange" the components on the screen using the dashboard builder - or, with WF8, use the new portal.
For the above you can either write the FOCUS code for each component, or "paint" it using Developer Studio.
I like this approach because I can reuse components across dashboards/applications.

2) Create a dashboard using the Active Technologies - which I think will do what you're saying WebFOCUS cannot do in your summary.


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Ramkumar - Webfous
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@Twanette Refering to your point
quote:
1) Build each "component" as a separate fex/procedure, and then "arrange" the components on the screen using the dashboard builder - or, with WF8, use the new portal.


Is it possible to have input elements in the page and the charts and data tables present in the dashboards would change according to the user selection?

Something as like in this?

http://demoportal.ibi.com/flas...-dashboard-ahtml.htm


Thanks,

Ramkumar.
WebFOCUS/Tableau
Webfocus 8 / 7.7.02
Unix, Windows
HTML/PDF/EXCEL/AHTML/XML/HTML5
 
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Twanette
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Hi Ramkumar,
It all depends on which WebFOCUS components you are licensed for.
The URL you referenced is using Active Technologies.
Are you licensed for UAS/MRE/BID?


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J
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I concur with Francis, Dashboard mainly provides MRE security and a way to get the report/app out to the users. Dev Studio html composer/report combos are where the logic and dynamic functionality come into play.


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