Create Navigation Pane Content

How to:

The Navigation Pane provides a place to put a rich text formatted page that explains the use of the current dashboard or page. A Navigation Pane is associated with a single dashboard tab. The Navigation Pane is a pane similar to the Task View, Property Explorer, or Color and Selection Legends. It can be positioned and reduced. If it is closed, you must manually restore it.

The contents of the Navigation Pane is loaded from a rich text file that is stored with the project. A rich text or RTF file has a suffix of rtf. Provide a separate content file for each Navigation Pane, or reference the content used for another Navigation Pane.

An RTF file is created using a tool that supports creating rich text files, such as Microsoft Word.


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Procedure: How to Create the Content
  1. Author the content using any tool that supports RTF, such as Microsoft Word.
  2. Use the tool to save the content in RTF format. In Word, for example, from the File menu, select Save As and then specify Rich Text Format (*.rtf) for Save as type.

    Note: When inserting images into the content using Microsoft Word they may not appear correctly after being edited or cropped. In this case you should right click on an image and click Format Picture.... Click the Compress... button and then select the options Apply to all pictures in document and Delete cropped areas of pictures.


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Procedure: How to Load the Project and Select the Page
  1. In WebFOCUS Visual Discovery, load the project that is to receive the new navigation content.
  2. Select the appropriate project page.

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Procedure: How to Configure the Page
  1. From the Page menu, select Page Properties.
  2. Select the Navigation Pane tab.
  3. Select the Display content from a file (RTF) radio button.
  4. Click the Load button, and locate the RTF file that you created.
  5. Click the Open button.
  6. In the RTF content loaded message box, click OK.
  7. Click OK again to close the Page Properties dialog.

    The new content is displayed in the Navigation Pane.

    Note: Support for Navigation content previously created in the MHTML format is being discontinued. Content in the MHTML format will continue to be displayed in the desktop clients. However that format cannot be displayed when published to AE Server and viewed with the web client. To convert any existing MHTML Navigation content to the RTF format, you may either reload the content after it has been converted in your authoring tool (Save to RTF format in place of the MHTML format) or you may convert the content by displaying it in the desktop client. Right-click within the content area and click Select All, then right-click in the content and click Copy. Open your authoring tool and paste the content, then Save To the RTF format. The newly formatted content may then be loaded into the project as explained above.


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