Universe Design

Creating a Pass through Prompt in Designer (Top N, Industry Standards, etc.)

Monday, March 8, 2010

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Creating a Pass through Prompt in Designer (Top N, Industry Standards, etc.)

This topic seems to be a request that comes in on every project that I am on and since I haven’t had a blog post in awhile, I thought it would be a quick and useful blog . Well, the ability to pass through a value into a WebI doc without having it to correspond to any dimensions/details/measures is a pretty simple process and can be easily done using a predefined query filter in Designer. We really have two things we need to look at and that is the logic and the syntax.

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What is a Business Objects Universe?

Friday, March 13, 2009

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What is a Business Objects Universe?

A Business Objects Universe is the semantic layer that resides between an organization’s database and the end user but more importantly, it is a business representation of your data warehouse or transactional database. It allows the user to interact with their data without having to know the complexities of their database or where the data is stored. The universe is created using familiar business terminology to describe the business environment and allows the user to retrieve exactly the data that interests them.

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