BusinessObjects: Universe Appreciation

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Course Overview

This one-day workshop provides key end-users with an insight into how a BusinessObjects universe is designed, maintained and secured. The purpose of the course is to enable business users to work more effectively with their IT counterparts and extract the maximum value out of their BusinessObjects deployments.

Audience

Power users, project managers or IT managers seeking a high-level overview of the Business Objects universe design process.

Skills Gained

A large percentage of this workshop is practical based. Delegates will carry out activities throughout the workshops that are relevant to the BusinessObjects environment using a purpose-built training database.

After completing the course, learners will be able to:

• Have a better understanding of the Business Objects administration modules
• Understand the role of the BusinessObjects designers and supervisors
• Be in a better, more informed position to liaise with universe designers and administrators
• Assist in creating a more user friendly, flexible and effective universe

Prerequisistes

• Familiarity with Microsoft Office (Excel and Word)
• • Attendance of Reporting with BusinessObjects, BusinessObjects FastTrack course or
  • equivalent experience

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introduction to BusinessObjects
• Product Breakdown
• Tool Breakdown

Designer Module

• What is a Universe?
• What is the Designer Module?
• Object Creation
• Multiple Table Objects,Object Types
• Object Format
• Aggregation
• Possible Combinations
• Aggregation Problems

When to modify a Universe

• Why change the Universe?
• Changes to the Target Database
• Changing Objects

How a Universe is changed

• Inserting a new Table
• Creating Joins Between Tables
• Adding Cardinalities
• Creating Objects
• Adding a Predefined ConditionHow a Universe is managed

BusinessObjects: Universe Appreciation / BO-UA