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Building Beautiful Dashboards
With Active Technologies Brian Carter March 29, 2012 WebFOCUS
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Agenda Active Technologies Review Examples Characteristics Formatting
Demonstration What’s new in 8?
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Active Technologies
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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
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Multiple Output Options
Output Format Recommended Deployment Benefit Desktop Browser Mobile Browser Mobile Apps AHTML x Disconnected analytics, visualization FLEX x* Better visualization and animation FUSION Superior visualization and animation APDF Disconnected analytics, visualization; Must support Flash
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Examples
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Examples
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Examples Active Dashboards: built in Document Composer and InfoAssist
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Characteristics as of 7703 InfoAssist vs. Developer Studio View
Single Page Output HTML Flash PDF Reports No control Charting Prompts Coordinated Cascading View Single Multiple Output HTML Flash PDF Reports Full control Charts Dynamic Initial display Prompts Coordinated Cascading InfoAssist vs. Developer Studio
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Formatting
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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
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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
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What Control Do I Have? Do your Active Charts look like this?
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What Control Do I Have? When they could look like this?
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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!
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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 Output Format Controlling JS File AHTML Standard irpcusf.js AHTML HTML5 irpstd.js FLEX Standard irpfsty.js FLEX Fusion irpfstd.js APDF
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Best Practices Create a “theme” Use “dynamic” charting engine
Determine resolution and viewing device Create templates Select the proper output format
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Demonstration
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What Changes in WF8? Google-like paradigm Stunning HTML5 Charts
Active Charts styled with stylesheet More chart types and interactivity More control in InfoAssist
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Questions and Thank you!
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