WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Components

WebFOCUS Visual Discovery controls are graphical components that are available through Developer Studio, and are developed using the HTML Composer tool. In HTML Composer, you can author webpages that contain visual controls embedded in a dashboard layout. Those pages can then be made available for end users.

For more information on HTML Composer, see Designing a User Interface for a Web Application With the HTML Composer manual.

The following steps outline the procedure for creating a Visual Discovery dashboard for end users, as discussed throughout this manual:

  1. Installing Developer Studio with a Visual Discovery license.
  2. Developing a Visual Discovery dashboard.
  3. Installing and configuring the Visual Discovery thick-client server for the WebFOCUS run-time environment.
  4. Deploying the Visual Discovery application files to the WebFOCUS run-time environment.

Installing Developer Studio with a Visual Discovery license. If you license Visual Discovery, then its development components are installed with WebFOCUS Developer Studio. Use HTML Composer to develop your Visual Discovery application. You can run your application directly from HTML Composer in Developer Studio, and through a browser in your development environment.

If you are installing Developer Studio with Visual Discovery on a machine that has a previous version of Visual Discovery installed, you must uninstall the previous version.

To uninstall Visual Discovery:

  1. Navigate to the Add or Remove Programs feature on your computer. For example, in Windows, you can access this feature in the Control Panel.
  2. Select ADVIZOR Solution Components.
  3. Click Remove and follow any additional prompts or instructions.

Developing a Visual Discovery dashboard. You can create Visual Discovery controls using HTML Composer in Developer Studio. These graphical components are ActiveX controls. You can customize each component from the HTML Composer tool in design time and from the browser at run time.

Installing and configuring the Visual Discovery thick-client server for the WebFOCUS run-time environment. Thick-client deployment methods are required to power Visual Discovery webpages after they have been developed.

The VZ Web Server provides a thick-client, web browser-based application that is deployed with embedded ActiveX controls to provide thick-client functionality to users.

For more information, see Installing WebFOCUS Visual Discovery Development Components.

While you develop with these ActiveX controls, they are powered by the physical installation of Visual Discovery with Developer Studio. Once deployed for the end user, ActiveX controls are powered by the Visual Discovery VZ Web Server (thick client). For more information on types of components, see Visualization Components: Descriptions and Usage.

Deploying the Visual Discovery application files to the WebFOCUS run-time environment. When you choose to deploy the Visual Discovery application files so that an end user may use the HTML pages at run time, you can use the deployment scenario wizard in the projects area, or manually copy and edit the files.

For more information, see Deploying Visual Discovery Applications.


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