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Now, You can write your Tutorial/Article on Krishcorner and let 1000's around, read your tutorial. After being one of the top viewing websites for tutorials in Cognos and BO(recently), Krishcorner is publicly accepting the tutorials from everyone. 

Whats in it for you?
If you are an IT professional, You can be one of those famous persons in your colleagues as well as internet world of similar professionals by having your article or Tutorial published under your name in a website meant only for professionals.
If you are a hobbyist, you will be helping many people here to learn more.
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Date Published: Sep 27, 2011 - 11:41 am



Business Objects(BO)-Export data from BO-Beginners Guide-12



Business Objects like any other tool supports data exporting which increases its robustness. One can easily create a report and export it to XML or txt or any other format to use it later. These exporting requires no brainer and i would prefer this exporting when ever there is a need to. Needs in here i mean scenarios such as

  • You are asked to create an XML format which can be feeded to some other tool.
  • You are asked to migrate to a newer Business Objects version.


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Date Published: Jun 26, 2011 - 8:04 am



Drill, Slice and Dice in Business Objects(BO)-Beginners Guide-11



With Business Objects(BO) the data is analyzed in different perspectives. BO data can be organized using different mechanisms like DRILLING or SLICING and DICING.

On report analysis:
Allows to work directly on the data in the report using drag and drop or with simple mouse clicks.
The data can be added from the Report Manager to create tables and sections.
Option to replace, swap and re‐organize data on the report is possible.
Sort, filter, and rank is possible using a simple mouse click to focus the analysis on a slice of data.
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Date Published: Jun 26, 2011 - 7:51 am


How to format breaks in Business Objects(BO) - Beginners Guide-9


A break does what its name implies. It breaks up the data in a table or crosstab by grouping the data according to a selected value. This allows you to display all the data for each value of a dimension variable together, and more importantly, it allows you to display subtotals.

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Date Published: Jun 26, 2011 - 7:05 am


Business Objects(BO)-Highlight Data-Alerters-Beginners Guide-10


How to Highlight Data in Business Objects(BO) using Alerters?

The data in Business Objects(BO) can be  highlighted using alerters. Alerters use special formatting to make data that fits certain conditions stand out from the rest of the data.This helps draw attention to trends and exceptions in report data

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Date Published: Jun 26, 2011 - 5:00 am


Ranking Data In Business Objects(BO)-Beginners Tutorial-8


How to use Rank data in Business Objects(BO) :
Ranking enables to look at the largest and smallest numbers in a report. Like filtering, it hides the data you do not want to display. Desktop ntelligence does not delete the data from the report; you can view it again whenever you like by removing the ranking.
Rank can be applied to data in tables, crosstabs or master cells in master/detail reports.

Example: Display the three top‐selling product lines only:
In this example, the table shows sales revenue for the product lines in the efashion retail chain. The table on the left shows revenue for all product lines. In the table on the right, the product lines column shows only the top three selling lines.

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Date Published: Jun 26, 2011 - 4:37 am


How to Sort data in Business Objects(BO)-Beginners Tutorial-7


How to Sort data In Business Objects (BO): The order in which the data appears in rows and columns is changed by applying a sort on the data.
For example, you can sort a column of city names to have the cities appear in alphabetical order. You can apply a sort on text, dates, or numbers.

  • The sorts are applied from the Sorts toolbar.
  • There are three types of sorts that you can apply to data.
  • The default sort order for all types of data is ascending.


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Date Published: Jun 26, 2011 - 4:24 am


Filter Data in Business Objects(BO)-Beginners Tutorial-6


Filter in BusinessObject(BO):A filter in BO enables to hide data which is not required to view behind the scenes and display only the required data.
The amount of information displayed in the report is controlled.

There are two types of filters:

  1. A global filter affects the whole report.
  2. A block specific filter filters data for the specified chart, table, or crosstab.


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Date Published: Jun 26, 2011 - 4:05 am


Create a Chart from a Crosstab in Business Objects-Beginners Tutorial-5


How to convert a chart from a table in Business Objects?We have created a crosstab from a table which is very straight forward. But is it possible to create a chart from Table or Crosstab?  Yes it is possible. Lets look at the following example to create a chart from cross tab or table.

Step by Step Instructions on How to convert a Chart from Crosstab:
First lets take any crosstab report to try out. If you dont have one you can create one using the example. or from scratch. You may want to refer how to create a table from scratch and how to convert a table to a crosstab.
Now, select the crosstab as a whole. as shown in the figure.
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Date Published: Jun 25, 2011 - 3:55 pm


Business Objects(BO) Charts and Different Chart types and Configuration


In Business Objects(BO), You can create different charts for displaying the reports very similar to other report types like list and crosstab.Different sets of data are particularly suited to a certain chart type. The following is an overview of the main chart types and their most common uses.

Following are the various chart types:

Purpose Chart type or configuration
Show contributions of parts to a whole pie
stacked configuration
100% stacked configuration
Show trends in time or contrast values across different categories line
area
bar
column
Compare groups of related information against actual values standard configuration
radar
3D
Compare different kinds of quantitative information column-line


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Date Published: Jun 25, 2011 - 3:25 pm


Convert Table to Crosstab in Business Objects-Beginners Tutorial-4


Crosstab in Business Objects can be created in two ways. You can either create a crosstab from scratch or you can convert an existing table to a crosstab. In Business Objects (BO), Creating a crosstab from a table is pretty similar to the previous post where i have explained in detail on how to create a table in Business Objects.

Step by step Tutorial on How to create a Crosstab from Table:
First select the table of your choice you have created or the table you created from the previous post on table creation.
Now select the values from any columns using CTRL+CLICK or SHIFT+CLICK. These values will serve as the heading for our cross tab.
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Date Published: Jun 25, 2011 - 3:02 pm


How to Create a Table in Business Objects-Beginners Tutorial-3


So, I guess You all had enough of theory knowledge by going through the previous tutorials and now eager to start the reporting. So lets start attacking the Business Objects. First lets create a table the basic block of any reporting or business tool.

To those of you who missed the previous post, Table is simply like an excel spreadsheet which has rows and columns. Each row represents a record and each column represents an element or a field. A typical table looks like this.

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Date Published: Jun 25, 2011 - 2:26 pm


Different Output report Styles in Business Objects(BO)


Business Objects like Cognos, has different report types. These Block types in Business Objects serves all most all Financial and Business Analysis needs.

BusinessObjects permits 4 block types: table, crosstab, financial and chart. However Financial is not many times considered as a block type. In BusinessObjects it's regarded as a means of formatting a table block. Frankly, this distinction is really a small one and it only comes when you are attempting to format a block. A report can include numerous block types. Figure, for instance, has each a chart block along with a table block inside 1 report. The subsequent table summarizes the various block types and when to make use of them. You are able to select to include, modify, and delete blocks and reviews both via the Report window or Report Manager.

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Date Published: Jun 25, 2011 - 1:41 pm


Create Reports in Business Objects(BO)-Beginners Tutorial-2


After successfully connecting to the database in Business Objects using your newly built data provider, you are all set to start creating your reports.

New Report Creation in Business Objects:
To create a new report, open Business Objects application and  click New in the standard toolbar or from the File menu.
File -> New
Choose generate a standard report and click Begin as shown in the below pic.


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Date Published: Jun 25, 2011 - 11:51 am


Business Objects(BO) Reports & Data Base access-Beginners Tutorial-1


Now coming to our Beginners tutorial-1,  Once you open the BO, the first step is to connect to the Database. so lets start our journey from connecting to a source. Btw, following are Some important features you have to read on before jumping to the next step.

Business Objects like any other Reporting tool, can access from different databases. Although SAP mainly provides the business warehouse model of integrating all SAP owned tools, it is still rich in accessing data from databases of all major players like Oracle, Teradata, DB2 etc.
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Date Published: Jun 25, 2011 - 11:26 am


 
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