Using Repository Widgets

How to:

Use the Explorer Widget
Use the Link Tile Widget

The repository widgets provide additional innovative ways of using your content and incorporating it into your page. There are two repository widgets currently available in WebFOCUS Designer.

Explorer. Allows you to put the WebFOCUS Explorer onto your page and use the WebFOCUS Home Page features to navigate your content. A page that displays the Explorer widget can replace the default Workbench page in the Business Intelligence Portal.
Link tile. Layers content in such a way that one content item becomes a click-through tile that opens another content item. This feature is especially useful when you need to incorporate a large or Insight-enabled item into a page and display it on all devices.

Procedure: How to Use the Explorer Widget

Open WebFOCUS Designer and select the Blank template.
From the Content tab of the Resource Selector, from the Repository Widgets area, drag the Explorer widget onto the canvas.

The widget displays on the page and incorporates the full view of the WebFOCUS Explorer.
Maximize your widget container to fill your page.
Optimize the look of the page by removing the page and container titles and toolbars.
1. Select the widget container on the canvas, open the Properties panel, and then disable the Title and Toolbar options.
2. Select the page and disable the Title and Toolbar options in the Properties panel.
An example of a completed page is shown in the following image.
Save your page.

The page can now be added to a portal as described in How to Add a Designer Page to a Portal or used as a standalone item.

Procedure: How to Use the Link Tile Widget

From the Content tab of the Resource Selector, from the Repository Widgets area, drag the Link tile widget onto the canvas.

The widget displays as an empty placeholder on the page.
With the Link tile placeholder selected, open the Properties panel.

The Link Tile properties display, as shown in the following image.
Click the ellipses icon next to the Background option and navigate to the content item that you choose to display on the page.

Note: Pick an image or a content item that you want users to see when the page loads. Note that any interactive features in the content are disabled when it displays in the Link Tile background.
Click the ellipses icon next to the Content option and select the target item. This content will run when users click on the Link Tile panel.
Determine how the target item will display by setting the Target option to Viewer or New Window.
Evaluate the behavior of the click-through action in the Preview mode.
Exit the Preview mode and save your page.