Installing a Chart Extension

Reference:

Preserving Custom Chart Types When Reinstalling the WebFOCUS Client

Find the extensions folder for your local WebFOCUS installation. This is typically the following folder.
```
C:\ibi\install_dir\config\web_resource\extensions
```
where:

install_dir

Is your WebFOCUS installation directory.

Note: The WebFOCUS Extension section of the Information Builders GitHub page maintains a list of publicly available and supported extensions. To install one of those, click the extension you want to install, then right click the zip file for that extension, for example com.ibi.xyz.zip, and choose Save link as...
Unzip the downloaded zip file into the WebFOCUS extensions folder. For example, for the com.ibi.xyz.zip zip file, this should create the following folder.
```
C:\ibi\install_dir\config\web_resource\extensions\com.ibi.xyz
```
If you are installing your own extension from your own environment, copy or download it to the WebFOCUS extensions folder, using the same naming conventions for the folder and the extension ID as described for the sample extensions.
Edit C:\ibi\install_dir\config\web_resource\extensions\html5chart_extensions.json. Create a new line for the new extension in the form:
```
"com.ibi.abc": {"enabled": true},
```
where:

abc

Is the name of the extension.
In the WebFOCUS Administration Console, click Clear cache. This will force WebFOCUS to reload all extensions.

Following is a sample html5chart_extensions.json.

{
        "com.ibi.simple_bar": {enabled: true},
        "com.ibi.liquid_gauge": {enabled: false},
        "com.ibi.sankey": {enabled: true}
    }

Note: The WebFOCUS Administration Console provides a user interface for installing chart extensions. For information, see Chapter 3, Configuring the WebFOCUS Client, in the WebFOCUS Security and Administration manual.

Reference: Preserving Custom Chart Types When Reinstalling the WebFOCUS Client

If you reinstall the WebFOCUS Client, your extensions folder will be overwritten. Therefore, if you have installed any custom chart extensions, you should preserve them by copying them to another location prior to reinstalling the WebFOCUS Client and copying them back to the extensions folder after reinstalling the WebFOCUS Client.

You will also have to copy the entries for your custom extensions into the new html5chart_extensions.json file installed with the new version of the WebFOCUS Client.

Note: The extensions that are delivered as part of WebFOCUS will be reinstalled automatically, so you should not preserve those extensions. In that way, if any enhancements have been made to those extensions, you will automatically have access to the enhanced versions when you reinstall the WebFOCUS Client.