Webi Action Button

This is the Need4Viz Help Portal page for the Webi Action button from Navigation widgets.

Introduced in N4V 2026.2.0

• Display a button to add a Webi action (refresh, navigate to tab, save, print…) inside your report.
• The dimension provided (technically mandatory) is not used (use for example a dimension = [empty]).

• Dimension 1 : This dimension is technically required but not used in the construction of this navigation widget.

Here you can find instructions for accessing settings for N4V FOR WEBI custom elements: Format Custom Element.

For Apply Filters Button, the available parameters are :

Extended Parameters

• Global
  • Title of the button zone : This common setting is described here → Chart title.
  • Background color : This setting allows you to choose the type of colorization for the background of the graph. Several styles and colors are available.
  • Printing: You can choose not to print the component during an XLS/PDF export
  • Animation: Apply an animation when the mouse hovers over the buttons.
  • Frame border style: Apply a rounded border to the component frame
  • Max rows in input: Change the default limit [10,000]
  • Custom CSS Style: Add your own CSS (without style tags)

• Options
  • Display : This parameter defines the kind of button (dynamic label or icon), its position in the block as well as the width of the button.
  • Label : Customize here the label (or tooltip for an icon) as well as the font style of the button.
  • Color : This parameter allows you to choose the color of the button on the one hand and that of the arrow and the hover on the other hand.
  • Icon : Here define the width and height of the icon used as well as its source. The image can be stored locally on the Need4Viz server (in the N4VCustomElements webapp folder : N4VCustomElements\res\images) or it can be a URL, in this case, define it as URL(“http://your_url/your_image”). Format of image can be SVG, PNG, JPG…

• Action
  • Webi Action : Choose here the Webi action to affect to the button. It can be a full/partial refresh, a print, a save or a navigate to tab (or a list of tabs to navigate).
  • Content of the list : In case of partial refresh or list of tab to navigate, fill here the list of queries/tab names (use semicolon as separator).
  • Navigation list options : Customize the list of queries/tabs here (style, color,…)

Export Server → See the user guide for the “Export Server” section here

Export FTP → See the user guide for the “Export FTP” section here

Export SharePoint → See the user guide for the “Export SharePoint” section here