Webi Training Manual

Introducing Web Intelligence
Getting Started with InfoView
Managing documents in InfoView

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When the number of documents saved in your Favorites or in your Inbox becomes
too large to be easily manageable, documents can be assigned to folders and
categories, to make them easier to find. The section below reviews how to create
folders and categories to organize your documents. Additional information about
managing the document lists within these folders and categories is also detailed
below.
After completing this unit you will be able to:

 Manage folders and categories.
 Manage documents in folders and categories.
 Add a hyperlink.
Managing folders and

categories
Creating a new folder

Folders are a way of classifying and organizing your documents. In the InfoView
Navigation Panel, you can create new folders to organize your documents. Depending on
the access rights granted you by the Business Objects Enterprise administrator, you may
also be authorized to create new folders in Public Folders.
To create new folders
1. In the Navigation Panel, click + to expand My Folders.

2. Click the Favorites folder.
3. Click the New button on the Navigation Bar.
4. Select Folder from the drop-down list.
The Create a New Folder page opens in the Workspace Panel.
5. Type "Submitted Business" in the Folder Name field.
6. Type something in the Description field.
7. Type something in the Keywords field.
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8. Click OK.
The new folder appears in the Navigation Panel. You can now save documents or other
objects to this new folder
Note: You may need to click the Refresh button in order for the new folder to show.
Copying and moving documents and

folders
Using the Workspace Panel and Navigation Panel toolbars, you can copy and move
documents and folders to new locations. You can copy a document into a different folder
and also copy a sub folder into a different folder. When you move a document or folder,
it is deleted from its original location.
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To copy documents and folders
1. In the Navigation Panel, click + to expand the Public Folders.

2. Select the Web Intelligence Samples folder.
3. Select the Web Intelligence Sample document in the document list by selecting
the check box by the document name.
4. Click the Organize button from the Workspace Panel toolbar located above the
document list.
5. Select Copy to a New Folder from the Organize drop-down menu.
The Copy page opens in the Workspace Panel.
6. Select the Sales Figures sub folder within My Folders > Favorites as the copy
location.
7. Click OK.
8. In the Navigation Panel, select the Submitted Business folder.
9. Click the Refresh button on the Navigation toolbar.
The copied document displays in the folder's document list.
Tip: If a folder does not exist that you want to copy a document into, you can create a
new folder from the Copy page by clicking the Add button.
10. Select the Submitted Business folder in the Navigation Panel.
11. Click the Copy button on the Navigation Panel toolbar.
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The Copy page displays in the Workspace Panel.
12. Select Favorites as the location for a copy of this folder.
13. Click OK.

A copy of the folder, including all of the objects within the folder, is now located within
your Favorites folder.
To move documents
1. Select the check box before the copied Web Intelligence Sample document in
Favorites > Copy of Sales Figures.
2. To move the document to a new folder, click the Organize button.
3. Select Move to New Folder from the Organize drop-down menu.
The Move page opens in the Workspace Panel.
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4. Select your Favorites folder as the new location for the document.
5. Click OK.
The document has been moved to the new folder and removed from the old folder.
Deleting documents and folders

You can delete documents and folders by using the Delete button on the Navigation
Panel toolbar for folders and on the Workspace Panel toolbar for documents.
To delete documents and folders
1. In the Navigation Panel, click + to expand your Favorites.

2. Select the Copy of Sales Figures sub folder within your Favorites folder.
3. Click the Delete button on the Navigation toolbar.
A dialog box displays to confirm that the folder is to be deleted.
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4. Click OK.
The Folder and all of the objects contained in the folder have been deleted.
Creating categories
Categories are a way of organizing documents. A category displays only the documents
that have been assigned to it, rather than the entire list of documents that are available
to you. This makes it easier to sort and find documents in document lists.
By creating categories that are appropriate to your business, you create a filing system,
in which each category contains documents related to a certain aspect of your business,
such as marketing, or sales.
In this section, you will learn how to create a new personal category, as well as how to
add a document to an existing category.
To create a personal document category

1. Select the Show Categories button from the Navigation Panel toolbar.
The Navigation Panel view switches to display categories.
2. Select Personal Categories as the location for your new subcategory.

3. From the Navigation Bar, click New to view the drop-down menu.
The list of available options displays.
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4. Select Category from the New menu.
The Create A New Category page displays.
5. Type "My Sales Documents" as the name of the new category you want to create
in the Category Name field.
6. In the Description field, type "eFashion sales documents".
7. Type "Sales" in the Keywords field.
8. Click OK.
The new subcategory displays in the Navigation Panel within Personal Categories.
Note: The same process should be followed to create Corporate Categories and
subcategories. However, access to this functionality is determined by your Business
Objects Enterprise administrator.
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Managing documents in folders
and categories
Using InfoView, you can save documents to folders and categories. You can also use
InfoView to:
• search for specific documents.
• create a shortcut to a document.
• filter documents in a list
Saving documents to personal folders

and categories
You have multiple options for storing objects in a category or folder. You can move and
copy objects to a folder or category, as reviewed earlier in this lesson. Or you can open a
Web Intelligence document and use the Save As feature to save the document to a new
folder or category location. For example, you can open a Web Intelligence document
from your Inbox folder, and save it to a designated Personal Category.
This option is not available when viewing Crystal Reports in InfoView. However, they can
be exported in different file formats using the document toolbar.
To save a Web Intelligence document in a personal category
1. Open the Sales Figures folder within the My Folders > Favorites folders.
2. Open the Web Intelligence Sample document from the list of objects.
The document opens in the Workspace Panel.
3. Click the Document drop-down arrow on the document toolbar to view the menu.
4. Select Save as from the menu.
The Save Options page opens
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5. Type "Web Intelligence Drill" in the Title field.
6. Type "Drillable orders report" in the Description field.
7. Select the checkbox Refresh on open.
8. Click + to expand the Categories list.
9. Select My Sales Documents from the list of Personal Categories as the location
where you want to save the document.
10. Click OK.
The document has been saved as an object in the My Sales Documents category.
Searching for documents

The Search feature in InfoView enables you to search for documents within categories or
folders by the object title, keywords, or all fields. There is also an advanced search
feature that allows you to be more specific in your search criteria.
To search for documents in InfoView
1. On the Navigation Bar, type "Sales" in the Search Title field.
2. Click the Execute search button.
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Any object with the word "Sales" in the title displays in the Workspace Panel.
To search using complex search criteria
1. Click the Search title drop-down arrow and select Advanced Search.
The Advanced Search page opens.
2. Select the Public Folder checkbox to search by location.

3. Enter Web Intelligence in the Search by Title field.
4. Click Search.
Any documents located in the public folders having the word Web Intelligence in the title
are displayed.
Filtering documents in a list

By default, all documents and objects that you have access to view are displayed in your
folder and category views. If you want to temporarily limit the type of objects displayed
to improve search capabilities, you can add a Filter. Applying a Filter to your object lists
allows you to view only objects of a certain type. The various object types that can be
filtered to include Web Intelligence documents, Desktop Intelligence documents, Crystal
Reports, Excel, Power Point, program objects, object packages, and text files.
To filter documents in a list

1. Click the Feature Samples folder within the Public Folders.
2. Click the Filter drop-down button on the Workspace Panel toolbar to view the
available filter types.
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3. Select Adobe Acrobat as the filter type from the menu.
You have filtered the Business Objects Feature Samples folder to only display Adobe
Acrobat documents.
4. To remove the filter, select All Types from the Filter drop-down menu.
Creating a shortcut to a document
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A Shortcut is an object that points to another document in a different folder. You can
create shortcuts as opposed to copying and moving documents from one folder to
another.
To create a shortcut
1. Click + to expand Public Folders.

2. Select the check box in front of the Web Intelligence Sample document located in
the Web Intelligence Samples folder.
3. Click Organize on the Workspace Panel toolbar to access the drop-down menu.
4. Select Add Shortcuts to a new folder from the menu.

The Shortcut page opens in the Workspace Panel.
5. Select the Favorites folder within My Folders as the location for the shortcut.
6. Click OK.
A shortcut to the document is now located in the Favorites document list. Selecting the
shortcut from the document list will open the document.
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Adding a
hyperlink
You can add a hyperlink to InfoView to easily access websites. The hyperlink is stored as
an object and saved in your folders or categories.
To add a hyperlink
1. Click the New drop-down button on the Navigation Bar to activate the menu.
2. Click Hyperlink from the list.

The Create a New Hyperlink page displays.
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3. Enter "Business Objects Web Site" in the Title field.
4. Enter "Technical support and product information" in the Description field.
5. Enter "http://www.businessobjects.com" in the URL field.
6. Select your Favorites>Submitted Applications folder as the location for the
hyperlink.
7. Click OK.
The hyperlink has been saved to the folder and is listed as an object in the document list.
Viewing a Web Intelligence document in

InfoView
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In InfoView, you can view documents that were created with Web Intelligence, Desktop
Intelligence, OLAP Intelligence and Crystal Reports if the system administrator has
authorized you to view that format, as well as documents created with other non-
Business Objects applications.

· Open and view a Web Intelligence document.
· Refresh the data in a Web Intelligence document.
· Print a Web Intelligence document when viewing it in PDF format.
· Close a Web Intelligence document.
Viewing Web Intelligence

documents
To open a Web Intelligence document

1. Open the Web Intelligence Samples folder within the Public Folders folder.
2. Open the Web Intelligence Sample document from the list of objects.
Note: To open the document, single-click on the document name. Clicking on the
document name opens the most current version of the report.
The document opens in the Workspace Panel.
3. Click the Hide the Navigation Panel arrow to view the Web Intelligence document
in the full InfoView window
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4. Click the Document drop-down arrow on the document toolbar to view the menu.
This menu allows you to close and save the document. If you are authorized to create
and edit Web Intelligence documents in one of the report panels, the Edit option appears
on the Document menu as well.
5. Click the View drop-down arrow on the document toolbar to view the menu.
This menu allows you to view the document in different modes: Page mode, Draft mode
and PDF mode. It also allows you to display the Left panel
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6. If the Left panel option is not already selected, click Left panel on the View drop-
down menu.
The Left panel opens in the InfoView Workspace, next to the document you are currently
viewing
The Left panel is composed of the:

∗ Navigation Map pane
This pane lists the different reports that are included in the document, and the sections
within each report.
∗ User Prompt Input pane
If you are viewing a document that prompts you to select the values you want to appear
in the report, a list of the values you have selected appears in this pane.
∗ Find pane
This allows you to specify search criteria for navigating to specific data in the document.
By default, the Navigation Map pane appears automatically in the Left panel.
7. In the Navigation Map pane, click + next to the Orders by Country report.
The report folder expands and displays all the sections organized in the Orders by
Country report
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8. Navigate the report by clicking on Italy in the Group Tree.
The report repositions to show the details on Italy.
9. Click on USA in the table.
The report navigates to show the USA section of data.
Refreshing a Web
Intelligence document
When you refresh a Web Intelligence document it retrieves the data from the database
and returns the updated values to the report(s).
You can update the data in a document while keeping the same presentation and
formatting.
Note: You can modify the data displayed in a document if you are authorized to create
and edit documents using one of the Web Intelligence report panels, and if you have a
connection to the data source. Refreshing the document does not change the query
definition used to create the document; it merely retrieves the most recent data from the
database that corresponds to the underlying query.
You can refresh documents in the following ways:

· Manually, whenever you choose
· Every time you or another user open a document
To refresh a document manually
1 Continue viewing the Web Intelligence Sample document.

2 Click Refresh Data from the toolbar in an open document.
The data is updated in the document.
To refresh a document every time it is opened

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By default, this option is not selected so that users will always see the original data that
was retrieved when the document was created or last refreshed, and which was stored in
the document when it was saved.
To see the most recent data available in the database, users can refresh the document
manually when they open it. Or you can choose to select this option to ensure that the
data is updated automatically each time the document is opened.
1. From the Document menu, click Save as.
2. Check the Refresh on open box when saving the document.
Printing a Web Intelligence

document
To print Web Intelligence documents, you need to display the document in PDF format
and print it from Acrobat Reader. To ensure quality printing, never print using the
browser print button.
1. If you are viewing a Web Intelligence document in HTML or Interactive modes, click
View > PDF to switch to the PDF format prior to printing.
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2. Click Print from the PDF Toolbar (not the browser print button).
Note: Each report within the Web Intelligence document will need to be printed
individually.
3. Click Cancel to cancel the print process.
Closing a Web Intelligence

document
To close the Web Intelligence document, you can either select the Close option on the
Document menu, or click the X button in the upper right-hand corner of the Workspace
Panel.
Clicking any of the folders or categories in the Navigation Panel will immediately replace
the open document with the list of documents contained in that folder or category,
effectively closing the document.
Customizing InfoView
Setting InfoView Preferences

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InfoView provides you with the ability to determine your preferences for viewing and
creating documents. From the Preferences page, you can alter InfoView general preferences,
document viewing preferences for Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence and Crystal
Reports documents, and change your password.

 Set general InfoView preferences.
 Set Web Intelligence preferences.
 Change your InfoView password.
Setting general InfoView

preferences
To set general InfoView preferences
1. Click the Preferences button on the Navigation Bar.

2. Select the General tab to view the page.
The General preferences page displays.
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From the General preferences page, you can modify the following options:
· The initial view that displays after logging onto InfoView includes the Home page, My InfoView,
Favorites, your Inbox, or a specified folder/category.
· The maximum number of objects displayed on each page.
· For each document list, you can determine which document properties are displayed, including
the description, owner, date, instance count, and actions. You can change where documents
are viewed: either in the InfoView window or in separate browser windows.
· Language and time zone settings are also determined on this page.
About document preferences

in InfoView
Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, Crystal Reports and OLAP Intelligence documents all
have different view options that can be set as default. The default will determine the view
that is applied when a document is first opened. The view format can always be changed
after the document has been opened.
In general, the different views are aimed at satisfying one of two things:
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∗ Quality in Viewing - These options are aimed at users that primarily view
the reports over the web. These formats are not ideal for printing. Web Intelligence
provides HTML and Interactive modes that are intended for users that usually look at
reports online. The Desktop Intelligence and Crystal Report formats are all very similar in
their view output.
∗ Quality in Printing - These options are aimed at users that primarily print
their reports. These reports will print exactly as they appear on the screen and provide
much better print quality than HTML. Web Intelligence provides PDF for the users that will
primarily print their documents. The Desktop Intelligence and Crystal Report document
formats are all very similar in their output and will all print to a printer as they appear on
screen.
Setting the specific Web Intelligence view options is covered in the next section.
Setting Web Intelligence

preferences
The Web Intelligence Document page in InfoView preferences allows you to set a number of
options that define:
· How you view Web Intelligence documents in InfoView.
· Which interface you will use to create Web Intelligence documents.
· How you will perform multi-dimensional analysis in Web Intelligence documents.
About Web Intelligence viewing settings

InfoView provides a number of formats for viewing Web Intelligence documents. You can
define one viewing format as the default option for your user account, by setting the
appropriate option in the InfoView Preferences page.
You can choose to view Web Intelligence documents in the following formats:
· HTML - useful if you want to navigate reports to view results, and refresh the report data to
see the latest figures. Values displayed in report tables and charts are static.
· Interactive - useful if you want to filter, sort, add simple calculations or drill on the values
displayed in the reports. This feature will be presented in detail later in this course.
Note: The availability to use this feature depends on how InfoView was installed and what user
rights you have. Ask your administrator if you have the rights to this feature.
· Portable Document Format (PDF) - useful if you want to print a document or save the
document to share with someone who does not have access to InfoView or Web Intelligence.
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You can experiment with all of the formats described by changing the default view options in
InfoView. The settings that are most appropriate for you depend on your organization's
requirements as well as your own preferences.
To define your locale format settings
1 From the InfoView Home page, click Preferences to view the Preferences Pages.
The General preferences page opens.
2 Click Web Intelligence Document to open the preferences tab for Web Intelligence.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the Web Intelligence Document preferences page so that you can
see the remaining settings available to you:.
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4. Click the Select a format locale drop-down arrow to see the list of the different formats
you can select to view Web Intelligence documents.
The default setting, User interface locale indicates that the locale settings and language
of the InfoView and Web Intelligence software will also determine the locale settings for
viewing documents.
5. In the When viewing a document zone, select the option most appropriate for your
situation:
· Select Use the document locale to format the data if you want to always view Web
Intelligence documents in the language and locale settings that were used when the
document was created.
· Select the Use my formatting locale to format the data if you want to always view Web
Intelligence documents with the language and locale settings defined on your workstation
settings.
About Web Intelligence reporting and

drilling settings
The remainder of the settings on the Web Intelligence Document preferences page allow you
to set options for creating, drilling and saving to Excel Web Intelligence documents. We will
cover these settings in details in later Lessons in this course.
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Changing your
password
Additional InfoView options can be tailored to your requirements in the Preferences pages.
Changing your password on a regular basis ensures that no one else can access the system
using your identification credentials.
This next section describes how to change your InfoView password.
To change your password
1. From the InfoView Home page, click the Preferences icon on the Navigation Bar.
2. Click the Password tab at the top of the page to set new password options.
The Password page opens.
3. Type your current password in the Old Password text box.

4. Type the new password in the New Password and Confirm New Password text boxes.
5. Click Submit.
Your InfoView password has been changed. The next time you logon to InfoView, you will
need to enter this new password.
Tip: Document your new password in a safe location so that you will remember it when logging
in again.
Creating an InfoView dashboard with My

InfoView
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My InfoView is a page in InfoView that you can customize to fit your own needs. By default,
the My InfoView page is blank. You can customize this page so that it displays the important
information you would like to see on a regular basis in the form of dashboards. You can set
My InfoView to be the page displayed as your initial view when logging onto InfoView in the
Preferences screens.

 Customize the My InfoView page.
 Set the new My InfoView page as your default view when you log on to InfoView.
Customizing My
InfoView
The My InfoView page allows you to display information from a variety of sources in a single
web page by adding dashboards. Dashboards are different panes of information in your
browser window and on the My InfoView page. They are useful to view information from
different data sources at the same time.
From InfoView, you can access the design screen which allows you to create dashboards for
My InfoView. You can create one or more Dashboards for My InfoView to display such things
as objects, websites, reports or documents.
To customize My InfoView
1. Click My InfoView on the Navigation Bar.

The My InfoView page as it appears by default opens in your InfoView window.
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2. Select a template from the available template icons. For this exercise, select the Three
Rows template.
A template that includes three horizontal dashboards displays. The templates include frames
that determine the layout of the objects in your dashboard. Each box in the template frame
can contain one object.
Each dashboard has a toolbar that can be used to open the object in the dashboard or to
modify the dashboard properties. The toolbar buttons are defined in the table below.
Dashboard
Definition
Toolbar Button
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Reopen the dashboard object in a new window. Dashboard object refers to
the document or content contained in the dashboard.
Split the dashboard vertically.
Split the dashboard horizontally.
Open the Dashboard Properties box.
Close the dashboard. This also deletes the dashboard from the page. To
recover the dashboard, it would have to be recreated.
3. Click Define Content in the first row to create content for the first dashboard.
The Dashboard Properties box opens for the first dashboard.
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4. Verify that the Web Address option is selected.
5. Enter the following URL into the text box,
http://www.businessobjects.com.
6. In the Header area, type "Business Objects Website" in the Caption text box.
7. In the Footer area, type "Technical Support Website" in the Caption text box.
8. Click OK.
The My InfoView page opens with the selected web site displaying in the first dashboard.
9. Click Define Content in the second row to create content for the second dashboard.
The Dashboard Properties box opens for the second dashboard.
10. Click the Object option.
11. From the Public Folders > Web Intelligence Samples folder, select the Web Intelligence
Sample document.
12. Type "Web Intelligence Report" in the Header Caption text box.
13. Click OK.
The My InfoView page opens with the selected document object displaying in the second
dashboard.
Tip: When adding a document object to a dashboard, an additional toolbar displays which allows
you to save, refresh and navigate the document.
14. Click Define Content in the third dashboard to add a list of documents.
The Dashboard Properties box opens for the third dashboard.
15. Select the Object option.
16. Select Public Folders from the list of available objects.
17. Click OK.
The Public Folders tree displays in the third dashboard. A Navigation drop-down list allows
you to navigate through the sub folders to locate and open documents.
18. Click the Save button in the upper-right corner of the My InfoView window. The default
location for your saved My InfoView page is your Favorites folder.
Tip: If you do not save your customized My InfoView, you will lose all of your changes.
Once you have customized and saved your My InfoView page, you can set this page to open
as your initial view after logging onto InfoView.
To set My InfoView as the initial view
1. In the toolbar in the InfoView window, click Preferences.

2. In the My initial view is area of the General Preferences page, select My InfoView to set
the dashboard as your initial view.
3. Click OK.
The customized My InfoView page now opens as the first page that appears when you log
onto InfoView.
4. Click the Log off button on the Navigation Bar.
5. Complete the fields on the Log On page and log back onto InfoView.
The InfoView window opens and displays My InfoView as the initial view.
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Creating Web Intelligence Documents with Queries
Getting new data with Web Intelligence

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In order to retrieve new data from your corporate data sources with Web Intelligence, you
can either create a new Web Intelligence document, or edit the query associated with an
existing document.
Creating a new document involves two steps:

∗ Choosing a Business Objects universe that the document will use as its data
source.
∗ Using the Web Intelligence Report Panel to create a query that will determine
which data is extracted from the universe and how that data is formatted.

 Describe the query process.
 Describe the universe used in this course to retrieve data.
About the query

process
Using one of the Web Intelligence report panels, you construct a business question that
represents the information you need.
This question is sent in the form of a query to the Business Objects Enterprise server, where
the data is retrieved and stored on the server in a data provider. The contents of the data
provider are then projected into a Web Intelligence report in the form of tables, crosstabs
and charts so that you can analyze the data.
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Universes and
objects
Web Intelligence makes it easy for you to access your corporate data by enabling you to
work with familiar business terms rather than technical SQL (Structured Query Language)
code.
Web Intelligence uses universes to achieve this. A BusinessObjects universe is the semantic
layer that maps everyday terms that describe your business environment to data stored in
the database.
Using a universe, you can retrieve the data that interests you simply by dragging and
dropping the desired objects.
In your company or organization, universes are created by a universe designer, using
BusinessObjects Designer. The designer then makes the universes available to you and
other users in your organization, so that you can select the appropriate business terms to
create queries and retrieve data from the database.
Within each universe, these business terms are listed as "objects", while similar types of
business terms are grouped into "classes".
Objects represent a selection of data

Objects are elements in a BusinessObjects universe that correspond to a selection of data in
the database. Object names are often the same business terms that you use in your
everyday activity, such as sales revenue, or customer name. You use these objects to build
queries and retrieve the data you want to show in your report.
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Universe used in
this course
The universe used in this training course, eFashion, is an example of a data warehouse for a
company that runs a chain of retail stores.
Universes are made up of classes and objects.
Objects are elements that map to a set of data in a relational database, but using business
terms. For example, some of the objects in the eFashion Universe include State, City, and
Store name.
Classes are logical groupings of objects.
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There are three different types of objects.
Dimension - Maps to character-type data or dates. Items that you would group data
on are usually defined as dimensions.
Detail - Maps to information that you might want to see in a report, but does not form
the grouping in the query. For example, the telephone numbers for stores.
Measure - Retrieves numerical data that is the result of calculations on data in the
database and represents a dynamic aggregate. For example, Sales revenue is based
upon Quantity Sold x Unit Price.
Universes can also include predefined query filters.
Query Filter- Restricts the information returned by objects, such as limiting data
concerning revenue to a specific year. Filters can also prompt the person viewing the
report to select a value, such as the query filter "Which product?"
Creating a new Web Intelligence document

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Now that you know the differences between the report panels and how to select which
Report Panel to use, you are ready to create a new document.
After completing this unit, you will be able to:

· Create a new Web Intelligence document.
· Select the data source you want to use to retrieve data.
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· Build the query to retrieve the data that interests you, using the Java Report Panel.
· Save the new Web Intelligence document.
Creating a new Web Intelligence document using

the Java Report Panel
The Java Report Panel is composed of two separate panels:

· the Edit Query view
· the Edit Report view
You use these panels together to build queries and present the data returned by the query
in a report. When you are ready to save, the following information is associated with the new
Web Intelligence document:
· the query definition
· the data returned by the query
· one or more reports
· one or more blocks of data (tables, charts) presented in the report(s), and the
formatting you have applied to the blocks
To create a new document using the Java Report Panel
1. On the InfoView Navigation Bar, click the New drop-down menu.
2. Select Web Intelligence Document from the menu.

The Data Selection page displays in the Objects area. From this page, select the universe
required for your query.
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3. Click Submitted Business from the list of universes.
Note: The Java applet downloads if this is the first time you are creating a document using the Java
Report Panel. A Java security prompt box may appear if you have logged in and out of Web
Intelligence, click Yes to continue.
The Java Report Panel Edit Query view displays. The classes and objects that reference the
selected data source are displayed in the Data tab of the Edit Query view.
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To build the query, you simply move the objects you want in your report from the Data tab
to the Result Objects pane.
Predefined query filters allow you to restrict data returned by the query.
To build a query in the Java Report Panel:

1. In the Data tab, click + to expand the Submitted Application Information class to view
the objects in the class.
2. Click and drag the Application Policy Number, Application Policy Prefix and Plan
Name data objects into the Result Objects pane.
Note: You can also double-click on the object to move it into the Result Objects pane.
The selected objects display in the Result Objects pane as shown below.
3. Click + to expand the Amount Measurements for Application class.

4. Double-click the Face Amount, Annual Premium Amount object to add it to the Result
Objects pane.
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5. Click Run Query on the toolbar.
The query is executed and the data returned is displayed in a new report in the Edit Report
view. The values returned by the objects you selected are presented by default in a vertical
table.
6. Keep this document open for the following exercises.
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Saving a new
document
You can save a document that you have created with Web Intelligence as a corporate
document in InfoView. You can save a corporate document to:
· Personal folders- exclusively for your own reference and saved in My Folders or Personal
Categories.
· Public folders- for sharing with other users and saved in a Public Folder or Corporate
Category.
Documents that you save to your personal folders are saved in an area on the Business
Objects server that is reserved for you. They are not saved on your workstation.
You can also save Web Intelligence documents to your own computer, in other formats for
easier sharing with non-InfoView users:
· Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet - useful if you want to combine the data in a Web Intelligence
document with data from an Excel spreadsheet.
· Adobe Acrobat PDF - ideal for printing and viewing.
To save a new document to a personal folder
Use the report you just created for the following procedure.
1. In the Edit Report view, click the Save drop-down button on the Report Panel toolbar.
2. Select Save as... from the drop-down menu.
The Save Document dialog box opens.
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3. In the Title field, type "Sales Revenue Report" as the name of the document.
4. In the Description field, type "Quarterly eFashion sales revenue report for all years"
as the document description.
5. Leave the options below the Keywords text box un-selected.
By default, the Refresh on open option is not selected so that users will always see the
original data that was retrieved when the document was created or last refreshed, and
which was stored in the document when it was saved.
To see the most recent data available in the database, users can refresh the document
manually when they open it. Or, you can choose to select this option to ensure that the data
is updated automatically each time the document is opened.
If you select the Permanent regional formatting check box, it will override the user's
default viewing options and always display the document's original regional setting for
language and time stamping.
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6. In the Location box, click + to expand the My Folders folder, if the folder is not already
expanded.
7. Click the Favorites link, to store this document in your Favorites folder.
8. Click + to expand the Categories.
9. Select the check box for My Sales Documents category under Personal Categories.
The completed Save Document box appears as shown below.
10 Click OK.
The document has been saved to your Favorites folder and referenced in your My Sales
Documents category. You can now move or copy this document to other folder locations in
InfoView if required.
Note: Throughout the course you will be asked to save documents. Save these documents in your
Favorites folder for the course exercises.
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Modifying a document's query
Introduct
ion
To change the query definition, you can edit the original query that you used to retrieve
data and create the document.
· Add and remove objects from the query.
· Project the data returned by an added object into the report block.
Projecting data from an

added object
Once you have created a document, you can easily change the information that is displayed
in the resulting report by adding or removing objects in the underlying query.
Then, once you have run the query and returned to view the report in the Edit Report view,
you can easily move the new objects from the Data tab of the Report Manager into a report
block by clicking and dragging them onto the report.
This process is called "projecting data".
To edit the query

1. Open the Sales Revenue document and select Edit from the Document drop-down menu
on the InfoView Navigation Bar.
2. Click Edit Query.
The Edit Query view is displayed.
You can change the data retrieved by this query by adding or removing objects, changing
filters, and by changing the order of the objects as they appear in the Result Objects pane.
3 From the Data tab, click + to expand the Submitted Application Information class.
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4 Drag the Product Name & Producer Contact Phone Number objects to the Result Objects
pane.
The Result Objects panel displays as shown below.
5 Click Run Query on the Report Panel toolbar.

The query is refreshed and the new object is added to the data provider. You can see the
new object displayed in the Report Manager Data tab.
Notice that although the Product Name & Producer Contact Phone Number objects has been
added to the data provider, it is not showing in the actual report. Now that you have
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retrieved additional data from the database with your modified query, you need to project
this new data into the block in your report. This process is called "projecting data" and is
reviewed in the next section.
To project data into a table

Continue working with the report from the previous exercise.
1. Click the Data tab of the Report Manager to view the objects in your query's data provider.
2. Click and drag the Product Name & Producer Contact Phone Number objects onto the
document pane, towards the edge of the first column in the block.
Note: When dragging and dropping objects onto a block, do not drop the objects onto a column
header or footer. The results will not display as expected. Objects should be dropped in the
detail cells of the block.
3. Drop the object when the tooltip Drop here to insert a cell displays.
The Producer Name, Producer contact phone Number object's data has been added as the
last two columns in the block.
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Note: If the tooltip "Drop here to replace a cell" displays, then you will replace the current column
with the new object's data.
4. Save the document to your Favorites folder as Sales Revenue per Store.
Understanding how the data is aggregated

In the original table, Sales revenue was broken down by Year and Quarter. This is an
example of high-level aggregation.
Now, Sales revenue is broken down even further to include store name. All the values have
been re-aggregated to produce a figure that represents the sales revenue earned by each
store this year. This is an example of low-level aggregation.
This demonstrates the dynamic nature of measure objects - their values change depending
on which dimension objects are used with them.
· A system administrator assigns rights for access to specific universes.
· A maximum of 15 queries can be created per document.
Working with query properties

Introduct
ion
You have seen that the Java Report Panel is actually made up of two panels: the Edit Report
view and the Edit Query view. In this unit, we explore the remaining features available in the
Edit Query view that we have not yet seen in this lesson.
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· Describe the Edit Query view toolbar buttons.
· View and modify the query properties.
· View, copy or edit the SQL statements that generate the query.
· View and modify the user settings.
Working in the Edit

Query view
The query that you used to create the Submitted Applications document is shown here:
As we have seen, the default display of the Edit Query view consists of three separate
panes:
· the Query Manager Data tab
· the Results Objects pane
· the Query Filters pane
Other Edit Query view interface elements are described in the table below.
Button Description
New Document button - Allows you to create a new document and build a
new query.
Edit Query button - Allows you to display the Java Report Panel's Edit Query
view, which you use to select the objects and predefined filters you want to
use to build queries.
Edit Report button - Allows you to display the Java Report Panel's Edit
Report view, which you use to organize the data retrieved by the query, and
format the blocks in the report.
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Run Query button - Allows you to run the query you built and retrieve the
data from the database. The results of the query are displayed in a report in
the Edit Report view.
Purge Data button - Allows you to remove the data retrieved by one or more
queries from your document.
Show User settings button - Allows you to view and modify measurement and
pixel settings.
Help button - Allows you to access contextual help on the task you are trying
to achieve.
Configure View button - Allows you to show or hide the Query Manager.
Show/Hide Filter Pane button - Allows you to show or hide the Query Filters
pane.
Show/Hide Scope of Analysis button - Allows you to show or hide the Scope of
Analysis pane.
Add Query button - Allows you to add a new query to the document.
Add Quick Filter button - Allows you to apply a filter on an object that is
selected in the Result Objects pane.
Add a subquery button - Allows you to run a subquery to restrict the data
returned by the query.
Add a database ranking - Allows you to use the database ranking feature to
retrieve only top or bottom values from the database.
Add a combined query - Allows you to combine the data retrieved from more
than one query using the minus, union or intersection operator.
View SQL button - Allows you to view, copy and modify the SQL statements
used to generate the query.
Many of these features will be explained in later lessons.
Viewing the query

properties
In the Edit Query view, you can also view and modify the default query properties. The query
properties can optimize the time taken for the query to run, or the amount of data returned,
set security options, specify the order of prompts in the report, and control potential
ambiguous query results.
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To view or modify the query properties:
1. In the Edit Query view, click the Properties tab.
The Properties tab displays in the Query Manager
The query properties options are grouped together in sections.

2. Click the Fold/Unfold arrows at the top right of each section of the options to expand or
close the property groups.
3. Modify the query properties as required.
The query properties sections are described in the table below.
Section Description
By default, each query in the document is named successively, Query 1, Query 2,
Name
and so on. You can type a name here that describes the query.
Limits Max rows retrieved
Maximum number of rows of data that can be returned when a query is run. If you
only need a certain amount of data, you can set this value to limit the number of
rows of data that is returned to your document. This prevents a query from taking
too much time or from returning unnecessary data to the document.
Note: The Max rows retrieved setting can be overridden by the limits set by your
administrator in your security profile. For example, if you set the Max rows
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retrieved setting here to 400 rows, but your security profile limits you to 200 rows,
only 200 rows of data will be retrieved when you run the query.
Max retrieval time
Maximum time that a query can run before the query is stopped. This can be
useful when a query is taking too long due to an excess of data, or network
problems. You can set a time limit so a query can stop within a reasonable time.
Retrieve duplicate rows
This option is selected by default.
Data In a database, the same data may be repeated over many rows. You can choose
to have these repeated rows returned in a query, or to have only unique rows
returned.
Allow other users to edit all queries
This option is selected by default. In this case, other users who have the
appropriate editing rights can edit the query and modify the data contained in the
Security document.
If you clear this option, only the report creator can modify the query(ies). Unlike
the other query properties, which only apply to the selected query, this option
applies to all of the data providers in the document.
If you have applied multiple prompted query filters, you can define the order of
Prompt
priority that they will appear to a user refreshing this document.
Order
Prompted query filters are presented in detail in the next lesson.
If this document was refreshed previously and the user selected a context at that
Contexts time, this option will allow you to rest the context and prompt the user to select
the context again the next time it is refreshed.
Note: You can only restrict further the restrictions that are already defined for the universe used
to create this document, the Web Intelligence server, and the database where the data was
retrieved. You cannot override restrictions that may already be in place.
Viewing the
query's SQL
When you build a query, Web Intelligence automatically generates the appropriate SQL to
retrieve the data from the database that you are accessing. You can view and edit this SQL,
and even copy and paste it to another application.
To view a query's SQL statements
1. In the Edit Query view, click View SQL.

The SQL Viewer dialog box displays the SQL behind the query.
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2. If you want to re-use the SQL in another application, click Copy to copy the SQL to the
clipboard.
3. If you want to edit the SQL statements, click Use custom SQL.
The SQL becomes editable.
4. Edit the SQL, and then click Validate to ensure that it is correct.
5. Click Save to save the new SQL.
Restricting Data Returned by a Query
Modifying a query with a predefined query

filter
Introduct
ion
A predefined query filter is an element in the universe that allows you to restrict the
information returned by specific dimension, detail or measure objects. Predefined query
filters are created by the universe designer, and appear in the list of classes and objects in
the Java Report Panel, identified by a yellow funnel icon.
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 Modify a query by applying a predefined query filter.
Using a predefined
query filter
In this section you learn to modify a query in the Edit Query view by adding a predefined
filter to the query. Like custom query filters that you define yourself, a predefined query
filter allows you to limit the data returned by the query to specific values.
To modify a query
1. In InfoView, open the Submitted Application Report from the Submitted Business
Personal Category.
The document displays in the InfoView Workspace window.
2. Click the Hide the Navigation Panel arrow to collapse the InfoView Navigation Panel and
view the document in your full browser window.
3. In the InfoView Workspace, click the drop-down arrow on the toolbar to view the Document
menu.
4. Select Edit from the Document menu.
The document opens in the Web Intelligence Java Report Panel. Note that the document
appears in the Edit Report view.
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5. Click the Edit Query button on the toolbar to open the Edit Query view.
The document opens in the Edit Query view.
6. Edit the query by dragging the Submitted Date filter to the Query Filters pane.
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7. Click Run Query on the Edit Query view toolbar.
Web Intelligence sends your query to the BusinessObjects server, which processes it and
then sends it to the database to retrieve the information you requested in the query.
When the data is returned by the BusinessObjects server, the Edit Report view opens and
displays the data in a block, by default a table block. The query has retrieved the data and
displayed it in a new report in your document. The information appears in a table in the
report window. You can see the objects you selected in the Data tab, in the left-hand side of
the Edit Report window.
Notice that the report has data for Submitted Date greater than selected value only, as it is
the current reporting year in our sample data.
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You can also see by the report tab at the bottom of the window that this new document
contains a single report.
8. Select Save as... from the Save drop-down menu and save the document as Report
Query.
9. Click + to expand the Categories in the Save dialog box.
10. Select the check box for Submitted Business category under Personal Categories.
11. Click OK.
Applying a single-value query filter

Introduct
ion
In a single-value query filter, you limit the data returned to one single value for that object.
For example, you can find data for a certain store name by building a condition on the "Store
name" dimension object, then selecting the name of the store you are interested in by
selecting it from the dialog box that appears.
 Create a single-value query filter.
 Edit a single-value query filter.
 Delete a query filter.
Creating a single-value
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query filter
In this scenario, you want to produce a report that shows total Jewelry sales revenue for
each state.
To create a single-value query filter using the filter editor

1. In the Java Report Panel, build a query using the eFashion universe, and select the
Application Policy Number, Application Policy Prefix, Plan Name, Face amount ,
Annual Premium Amount, Producer Name and Producer Contact Phone Number
objects.
2. Drag the Plan Name object that you want to filter by into the Query Filters pane.
The default filter definition appears in the Query Filters pane. You use this default definition
to define the operator and the operand type
3. Click the arrow next to the InList operator.

4. In the drop-down list that appears, select In List.
5. Click the arrow next to the bulleted list button to the far right of the filter definition. This is
known as Operand Type drop-down arrow.
A drop-down menu appears that allows you to select the operand type
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You could type the Category value directly in the filter definition's text box, if you were sure
that you knew the value and its precise spelling. Later in this lesson, you will select the
Prompt operand type. In this example, you are going to use the Value(s) from list operand
type, in order to select a specific value from the list of values returned by the Category
object.
6. Click Value(s) from list.
The list of values for the Category object is retrieved from the database and displayed in the
List of Values dialog box.
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7. From the Plan Name list, double-click 10 Year Flex Series Y.
Jewelry appears in the Value(s) Selected text box.
In the Search All Values text box, you can:
· Perform wildcard searches using (*) to replace one or several characters of the
value searched for. For example, clicking in the Search All Values text box, typing 10*, then
clicking the Binoculars button retrieves all Plan Names starting with 10 (10 Year Flex Series
Y and 10 Year Flex Term Series IV).
· Or, use (?) to replace one character for the value searched for. For example, clicking
in the Search All Values text box, typing 10*Series*, then clicking the Binoculars button
retrieves the values 10 Year Flex Series Y and 10 Year Flex Term Series IV.
8. Click OK.
The query filter you just created appears in the Query Filters panel showing the filter's
object, operator and operand.
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9. Click Run Query.
The report now displays data concerning Sales revenue for Jewelry, by State and City.
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10. Save the report in your Favorites as Simple Query Filter.
Editing a single-
value filter
To edit a query filter

1. Continue working with the Simple Query Filter report.
3. In the Query Filters pane, click the Operand Type drop-down arrow and select Value(s)
from list to open theList of Values dialog box.
4. From the Category list, double-click 10 Year Flex Term Series.
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5. Click OK.
The query filter appears in the Query Filters panel showing the filter's object, operator and
operand.
6. Click Run Query.

The report now displays data concerning Plan Name for 10 Year Flex Term Series only, by
Application Policy and Application Policy Prefix.
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Deleting a
query filter
1. Continue working with the Simple Query Filter report.
2. Click Edit Query to ensure you are in Query view.
3. From the Query filters panel, click the Category Equal to: Evening wear filter that you
want to delete.
4. Press the Delete key on your keyboard.
Note: Two alternative methods of deleting a query filter is to either click and drag the filter to the
left-hand object panel, or to right-click the query filter and select Remove from the drop-
down menu.
Using prompts to restrict data

Introduct
ion
A prompt is a dialog box that appears whenever a document is refreshed. Prompts can be
designed to allow users to manually enter data or select data from a list of values.
· Describe how prompted filters allow each user to view different data every time the
document is refreshed.
· Create a prompted query filter.
· Edit a prompted query filter.
Prompted
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filters
The prompt dialog box asks you, or any user who refreshes the document, to choose which
data is to be retrieved and displayed in the report and focus on a specific part of the
information available. This is known as a prompted filter.
Prompted filters allow multiple users viewing a single document to specify a different subset
of the database information, and yet still display it in the same tables and charts in the
report.
You can use a prompted filter to define a question that is displayed whenever the data in the
document is refreshed. Users can answer the prompt either by typing or by selecting values.
Prompts can be defined on any dimension, measure or detail object listed in the Data tab in
Query view.
Note: You cannot use the operators Is Null and Not Null when creating prompted filters.
Creating a prompted
f
query filter
In this scenario, you want to produce the same report showing sales revenue per state, but
this time you want the report to prompt the user to select a product category, each time the
report is refreshed.
In this way, the report can display data not just about the Jewelry category, but about any
product category that interests the user at that moment.
To create a prompt in a report
1. In the Java Report Panel, click the New Document toolbar button to create a new
document.
2. Create a new query by moving the State, City, Category and Sales revenue objects into
the Result Objects panel.
3. Drag the Plan Name object into the Query Filters pane.
The Filter Editor displays.
4. From the Operator drop-down menu, select the Equal to operator.
5. Under Operand Type, select Prompt as operand type.
The filter definition updates in the Query Filters pane.
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6. Click the Prompt button next to the Enter Category: text box, in the query filter
definition.
The Prompt dialog box appears.
The options for creating a prompt are displayed. Several of the prompt options are selected
by default.
· Prompt text- you can type any text that you want to prompt the user to select a Category
value. This text will appear each time the user refreshes this document.
· Prompt with List of Values - useful when you want the user to view all the values for the
object and then select from those values.
· Select only from List - this option is useful in preventing users from typing a value that may
not exist in the database.
· Keep last value(s) selected - the value that was selected the last time the report was
refreshed is selected by default in the prompt list box.
· Set default value(s) - the value specified as default.
If you select this option, the Prompt dialog box expands and displays all the values returned
by the Submitted Date object. This allows you to specify a value that you would like to
display by default when this document is first run or refreshed.
7. Type Select a Submitted Date in the Prompt text box.
8. Leave the defaults options as they appear and click OK.
The Edit Query view shows the filter you have defined in the Query Filters pane.
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9. Click Run Query.
The Prompts dialog box appears, showing the list of values for Submitted Date, the object
you used to create the prompted filter.
10. Under Submitted Date, Select 12/3/2009 12:00:00 AM from the list of values.
11. Click Run Query.
The report now displays data concerning Sumitted Date greater than for 12/3/2009 12:00:00
AM only, by all resulting dimension object.
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Note: The prompt displays each time the report is refreshed manually. Refresh the report on your
own, selecting different values each time.
12. Save the document to your Favorites as Prompts.
Editing a prompted
query filter
To edit a prompt filter
Continue working with the Prompts report.

2. In the Query Filters pane, click the Operator drop-down arrow to display the operators, and
select In List.
3. Click the Prompt button next to the prompt text box.
4. Edit the prompt text to read Select a Submitted Date from the list.
5. Check Set default value(s).
The Prompt dialog box expands and displays all the values returned by the Submitted Date
object. This allows you to specify a value that you would like to be displayed by default when
the query is first run.
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6. Double-click Submitted Date Values to specify that this value should be displayed when
the query is first run.
7. Double-click Submitted Date Values to add another value to the Value(s) Selected box.
8. Click OK.
9. Click Run Query to display the new Prompts dialog box.
Notice that this time the values you specified, Evening wear and Day wear, are presented by
default in the Prompt zone.
10. Click Run Query in the Prompts dialog box.
Note: If you prefer, you can still type a different value in this Prompts dialog box, if you are sure
of its exact spelling, or click Refresh List to see the full list of values again.
11. Save the document.
Now you can save this document to a public folder and the next time a user opens the
document in InfoView, the report will display data concerning Evening wear. If the user then
decides to refresh the data, the prompt dialog box will allow the user to select another
value.
Because the Keep last value(s) selected option was also selected, if the user saves the
document, the value the user chose will appear initially for the next user that views the
document.
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Using complex filters
Introduct
ion
To further refine information returned to a document you can apply more than one filter to a
query. First you need to create the query filters and then determine how they should be
applied together.
· To return values that are true for two filters, use the AND operator.
· To return values that are true for either of two filters, use the OR operator.

 Describe logical operators and how you use them in filters.
 Apply more than one filter using the AND operator.
 Apply more than one filter using the OR operator.
 Prioritize filters so that you are sure to retrieve the correct data.
Using logical operators for

multiple conditions
To produce a report that focuses more precisely on certain data, you may need to apply
more than one filter. When you specify more than one filter in a query, the relationship
between the filters must use either the AND or OR operator. These are known as logical
operators.
· The AND operator is used when both conditions defined in the two filters must be met for a row
to be returned from the database when you run a query.
· The OR operator is used when either one or the other of the conditions defined in the filters
must be met for a row to be returned from the database when you run a query.
The result of combining two or more filters can be visually represented using a Venn
diagram as illustrated below.
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The two circles each represent the number of database rows that are returned based on the
conditions defined by a particular filter. Note that the two overlap. This area represents the
rows that meet the conditions defined by both filters.
As shown in the diagram, using the AND logical operator results in only rows represented by
Area C being included in a report. On the other hand, if you use the OR logical operator, all
rows represented by Circles A and B will be returned. The following sections demonstrate
these points.
Using the AND

operator
By default, when you add a second filter to a query, Web Intelligence automatically places
an AND operator between the two conditions. You saw this behavior when you added the
predefined filter to your query in the last practice activity.
In this scenario, you want to produce a report showing sales revenue per state. You want the
report to show revenue data concerning only the years 2001 and 2002, and for all states
except DC.
To create a report using the AND operator
1. In the Java Report Panel, create a new document. Build a query by moving the Year, State
and Sales revenue objects to the Result Objects panel.
2. Drag the Year object into the Query Filters panel.
The default filter definition displays and shows that Year is the object you are applying a
filter on.
3. Leave the default operator, In List, as the operator you use for this filter.
You want to filter for two values, therefore you need to display the values in a list before you
can select the ones you require.
4. Click the Operand Type drop-down arrow, and click Value(s) from list.
The values available for the object are displayed in the List of Values box.
5. From the Year column, double-click 2001 and 2002.
The values you selected now appear in the Values Selected zone.
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6. Click OK.
The Filter Editor dialog box closes and the Edit Query view opens again, with the filter you
just defined displayed in the Query Filters pane.
7. Create a second filter using the State object.

8. From the Operator drop-down list, select Not Equal to.
9. Under Operand Type, click Value(s) from list.
The values available for the object are displayed in the List of Values box.
10. Double-click DC.
11. Click OK.
Once you create the second filter Web Intelligence automatically applies the AND as the
default operator.
12. Click Run Query.
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The report displays Sales revenue for all the States except DC for the years 2001 and 2002.
13. Save the document to your Favorites as Multiple Filters in the Favorites folder.
Using the OR
operator
In this scenario, you want to continue working with the report above, however we are going
to add additional filters to focus on states meeting a certain criteria. The states (except DC)
we are focused on are those with sales in either 2001, 2002 or those that have had sales of
more than $2,000,000.
To create a report using the OR operator
Continue working with the Multiple Filters report.
1. Click Edit Query to ensure you are working in Query View.
2. From the Data tab, click and drag Sales revenue into the Query Filters pane.
3. From the Operator drop-down list, select Greater Than.
4. Click in the Type a constant text box and enter 2000000 as the value.
Note: Be sure to exclude dollar signs and commas. The number must be a true numeric in
order for the query to execute properly.
The query filter updates.
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Once again, the default condition of And is applied. However, in this example we want to
retrieve data for the (all States except DC AND Years 2001, 2002) OR any state / year
combination that had sales greater than $2,000,000. You need to apply the OR operator to
get the result you desire.
5. Drag the Sales revenue filter in the Query Filters pane and drop it on top of the State
filter.
Web Intelligence automatically groups the two filters together.
The And operator displays as the default. However, the And condition will not retrieve the
data we are interested in. We want to retrieve data where (Year InList: 2001; 2002) And
(State <> DC) Or (Sales Revenue > 2,000,000). We need to continue adjusting the
condition.
6. Drag the State filter in the Query Filters pane and drop it on top of the Year filter to group
the State and Year filters together.
The query filters are now grouped properly. However, the And / And combination is
incorrect. As a final step, you will need to change one of the And operators to an Or
operator.
7. Double-click on the And between (State / Year) and Sales revenue.
The Query Filter pane should now look like:
8. Click Run Query.

The report displays All States except DC for the years 2001 and 2002 AND any states that
have Sales revenue greater than $2,000,000 regardless of their state and year.
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Notice the last three rows in the table: data appears for California, New York and Texas for
2003 even though we selected only the Years 2001 and 2002. This is because of the OR
condition that specifies to ALSO bring back any rows that had sales greater than $2,000,000
regardless of year or state.
9. Save the document to your Favorites folder as Multiple Filters 2.
Prioritizing
operators
You are applying a complex filter when you combine several filters in a single query. In order
to ensure that the filters retrieve exactly the data you want, you need to prioritize the
operators.
To define the priority between complex filters

In this scenario, you want to create a new document that shows Sales revenue by Store
name for stores in Florida for Bermuda Shorts, Or Sales revenue by Store name for Stores in
Colorado for Hats, gloves, and scarves.
1. Using the eFashion universe, create a new query and filters as shown below.
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This query will not work as it is presented as the system does not know which filter to run or
which filter order to apply. To prioritize you will create a structure in the Query Filters pane.
2. In the Query Filters pane, drag and drop the filters in the order you want them to display in
your report. When finished, your query panel should look like the one below.
The filters are grouped together and connected with an Or operator and the query is
complete with the priority of the conditions defined.
3. Click Run Query.
The report displays Sales revenue by Store name for stores in Florida for Bermuda Shorts Or
Sales revenue by Store name for Stores in Colorado for Hats, gloves, and scarves.
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4. Save the document to your Favorites folder as Prioritizing Operators.
Report Design in the Java Report Panel
Working in the Java Report Panel

Introduct
ion
This unit introduces you to the Edit Report view. This is the Java Report Panel interface
element that allows you to edit and structure the information that is returned by the queries
built previously in the Panel's Edit Query view.
· Describe the components of a Web Intelligence document.
· Describe the different toolbars available for reporting, formatting and navigating
through pages.
· Customize your Java Report Panel user settings.
· Describe the different tabs in the Java Report Panel's Report Manager.
· Display the Document Properties pane and describe the options.
· Insert, delete, duplicate and move reports within a Web Intelligence documents.
Components of a Web
Intelligence document
A Web Intelligence document consists of:

· one or more reports
One document may contain several reports, organized as tabs along the bottom of
the window. Reports contain blocks of formatted data as well as text and graphics. You
specify the layout when you create a report, and you can also change the layout of
existing reports.
· one or more blocks
A block is a table, crosstab, or chart that displays information in the report.
· the microcube of data returned by the query, also known as the data provider
The microcube or data provider contains the actual data that was retrieved from your
corporate database. The data provider is the structure in which the retrieved data is
stored in the document. It contains all the data that you can display in the report(s)
inside the document.
Viewing reports in a
document
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Each report in a document can show different views of the same information, or it can show
completely different information concerning the same subject.
About the Edit

Report view
The Edit Report view in the Java Report Panel allows you to interact with and organize the
data returned by queries in two ways:
· using toolbars
· using the Report Manager tabs
The Report Manager will be presented in detail in the next unit. This section describes the
different toolbars you can use as you work on organizing and presenting data in your report.
The Edit Report view

toolbars
As you are creating and editing reports in the Edit Report view, there are four toolbars
available to you.
· the Standard toolbar
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· the Reporting toolbar
· the Formatting toolbar
· the Page Navigation toolbar
To display the Edit Report view toolbars:
1. Create a new Web Intelligence document by building a query using the eFashion universe,
or open an existing document in the Java Report Panel.
· In Edit Report view, click the Configure Views button on the Standard toolbar, to the left
of the Edit Query button.
2. From the Configure Views drop-down menu, click Toolbars.

3. Verify that all the available toolbars are selected.
The tables below give you a brief description of each of the toolbar buttons.
Standard toolbar buttons

Button Description
New Document
Creates a new document on the currently selected Universe.
Save
Allows you to save documents to Personal and Public folders or to save
documents on your own computer.
Export to PDF for Printing
Enables you to generate a copy of individual reports or specific pages to a
PDF file for printing.
Configure Views
Allows you to show and hide the different Report Manager tabs, as well as
show and hide each of the three toolbars.
Edit Query
Allows you to define data content of the document. Toggles your view of the
report from Edit Report to Edit Query view.
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Edit Report
Allows you to edit reports in a document. Toggles your view of the report
from Edit Query to Edit Report view.
Refresh Query button - Allows you to regenerate the query and retrieve
the most recent data from the database.
Purge Data button - Allows you to remove the data retrieved by one or more
queries from your document.
Show User settings button - Allows you to view and modify measurement
and pixel settings.
Help button - Allows you to access contextual help on the task you are trying
to achieve.
Reporting toolbar button

Button Description
Show/Hide Filter Pane

Allows you to drag objects into the filter pane to restrict the amount of data
displayed in the report.
Show/Hide Formula Toolbar
Allows you to create custom formulas using a graphical editor and save
them as variables for reuse in the document.
Variable Editor
Allows you to create a new variable by building a formula and defining it
with a name in the Variable Editor.
Merge dimensions
Allows you to merge dimensions from multiple queries into a single
dimension. You can then use that merged dimension to project data in a
block.
Show/Hide Drill Toolbar
When you switch to drill mode, you can use this button to either display or
hide the drill toolbar that displays drill filters as you analyze data in different
levels of detail.
Undo
Allows you to cancel the previous action.
Alerters
Allows you to create, edit or delete alerters. Alerters allow you to highlight
results that meet or fail specific targets.
Apply/Remove Ranking
Allows you to show only the extreme ranges of data, by ranking the top or
bottom values of a given dimension on the basis of a given measure.
Add Quick Filter
Activated when you select an object in the Result Objects pane and allows
you to select a value to filter data on.
Insert/Remove Break
Insert or remove a break on a table column or row.
Apply/Remove Sort
Apply to or remove a sort from a column of data. Clicking the down arrow
displays the descending sort option as well.
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Insert Sum
Insert sum or display the list of calculations you can apply to a column of
data. Clicking the down arrow displays the additional calculations.
Insert Row Above
Insert a new table or row above the selected row. Clicking the down arrow
displays additional insert options.
View Page Layout
Toggles between page layout and normal view of a current document.
View Structure
Toggles between viewing the structure of the report and the results.
Drill
Starts and ends drill mode. Allows you to analyze report values by drilling
down or across the dimensions displayed in the tables and charts.
Take Snapshot of Drilled Report
Allows you to make duplicate of drilled report so that you can keep a copy of
the drilled values in the same documents.
Formatting toolbar buttons
Button Description
Font name
Allows you to change the font used to display text in the selected report
element.
Font size
Allows you to change the font size used to display text in the selected
report element.
Bold
Allows you to change the text style in the selected report element to
bold.
Italic
italic.
Underline
underlined.
Left
Allows you to align the text in the selected report element to the left.
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Center
Allows you to align the text in the selected report element in the center.
Right
Allows you to align the text in the selected report element to the right.
Merge cells
Allows you to merge multiple cells or columns into a single cell or
column.
Background color
Allows you to change the background color of the selected report
element.
Text color
Allows you to change the text color of the selected report element.
Page Navigation toolbar buttons

Button Description
Page navigation
Allows you to quickly navigate to specific pages in the
document.
Customizing the user settings

You can personalize the following display settings of the Web Intelligence Java Report Panel
to help you position report elements on report pages:
· define the unit for measurement
· display a grid to help align page elements
· use snap to grid to reposition page elements accurately
· define grid spacing
Set your Java Report Panel user settings

1. Open an existing document or create a new document and run a query.
2. In either the Edit Report view or the Edit Query view, click the Show User Settings button
in the Standard toolbar.
The User Settings dialog box appears.
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3. Specify measurement settings for the document properties and define grid settings here.
4. Click OK.
Web Intelligence saves your new settings. The new settings are applied the next time you
launch the Java Report Panel.
Working with the Report Manager in the

Java Report Panel
The Report Manager is displayed on the left-hand side of the Web Intelligence Edit Report
view. Using this panel, you can manage all the objects and variables in the document,
change the type of blocks in the report, format the properties of the report and its contents,
and navigate through the document.
The Report Manager is made up of four tabs:

· Data tab - Allows you to view at a glance the data available in a document. Data is organized
in a list of Query and Variable classes.
· Templates tab - Allows you to change the type of blocks in a report by dragging and dropping
different templates onto a report block.
· Properties tab - Allows you to format the report and blocks within the document.
· Map tab - Allows you to view and navigate through the reports and sections in a document.
To view and navigate with the Report Manager

1. Open the Sales Revenue Report document from your Favorites folder.
The document opens in the InfoView window.
2. Select Edit from the Document drop-down menu on the Navigation Bar.
The Java Report Panel opens, with the document displayed in the Edit Report view.
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By default, the Data tab is displayed on the left-hand side of the Report Manager pane. This
tab displays the title of the document, plus all the objects available in this document
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If you had multiple queries and variables in the document they would be displayed in this
tab also.
Next, you will open the Templates tab to look at the table and chart templates available to
you for displaying this data.
3. Click the Templates tab of the Report Manager.
The Report Manager Template tab opens. The Report Elements folder displays the templates
available for use.
In the image below, you can see all the table template styles available to you
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.
In later lessons, you will explore how to use these tabs and the Map and Properties tabs as
well.
Configuring views of the Edit

Report view
In the Java Report Panel, it's very simple to configure how you want the Report Manager to
be displayed in the Edit Report view.
To configure Report Manager views

1. In the same Sales Revenue Report document, click the Configure Views drop-down
menu.
This menu allows you to select different options for showing or hiding the different tabs on
the Report Manager
You can choose to display:

· The Data tab displayed in front of the other tabs, as the standard default view.
· The Properties tab positioned below the Data tab, so that you can view both at the same time
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· The Data tab displayed to the left and Properties tab displayed to the far right of Document
zone.
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· Or, the Report Manager collapsed as a vertical toolbar. In this configuration, the tabs are now
presented as buttons that you can click whenever you want to view any of the tabs.
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2. Select the Collapsed Data Properties option from the Configure View menu.
3. Click the Templates icon on the vertical toolbar, and see that the Templates tab appears as
usual in the Report Manager space.
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4. From the Configure Views drop-down menu, select the Data option to return to the
standard view of the Edit Report panel.
Displaying the document

properties
In the Edit Report view, you can display and modify properties that are assigned by default
to the document.
To view document properties

1. Continue working with the Sales Revenue Report document.
2. From the Reporting Toolbar, click the View Page Layout button.
The report is displayed in Page Layout mode and you can now view the reports in the
document as they will appear when printed.
3. To view the overall properties assigned to this document, right-click the Report 1 tab at
the bottom of the document pane.
A shortcut menu displays.
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4. From the menu, select Document Properties.
Alternatively, you can also right-click anywhere above the report zone or the header zone in
the document, then select Document Properties from the drop-down menu.
Note: Make sure you click as close to the top of the document as you can, otherwise you may select
a report element instead of the document zone, and the drop-down menu that appears will
not be the correct one.
The Document Properties pane appears on the right side of the Edit Report view window.
Note: To view all the properties displayed in this pane, you can either use the vertical
scroll bar, or you can click one of properties headers in order to collapse that section.
Collapsing one section will allow the other sections to appear in the pane so that you don't
have to scroll down to view them.
5. Click the Document Information header in the Document Properties pane to collapse
that section.
The Document Information properties zone collapses, and the pane now appears like this:
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The document properties options are described in the following table:
Document
Properties Description
section
Displays details about the document, such who created the document,
when the document was created, and last modified, keywords that were
defined to identify the document, and a description.
Locale
Document
Displays the document's international formatting locale. The locale affects
Information
the behavior of, for example, date display, number display and sort order.
For example, if the document formatting locale is French (France), decimal
numbers appear according to French formatting rules with a comma as the
decimal separator (3,51;20,05).
Document Refresh on open
Options This option tells Web Intelligence to refresh a document automatically each
time a user opens it.
By default, this option is not selected so that users will always see the
original data that was retrieved when the document was last refreshed, and
which was stored in the document when it was saved. To see the most
recent data available in the database, users can refresh the document
manually when they open it. Or you can choose to select this option to
ensure that the data is updated automatically each time the document is
opened.
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Enhanced viewing
This option is selected by default. It optimizes the document appearance for
on-screen viewing.
Use query drill
Tells Web Intelligence to drill in query drill mode, instead of in the standard
drill mode. This drill mode is presented in detail in Lesson 11.
Auto-merge dimensions
Tells Web Intelligence to synchronize data providers by merging dimensions
Data automatically under certain conditions. This option is presented in detail in
Synchronization Lesson 10.
Options Extend merged dimension values
Tells Web Intelligence to extend dimension values in reports with
synchronized data providers.
Report Order Sets the order of the report tabs in the document.
Note: The Help link at the bottom of the pane provides help on each of these options.
6. Close the Document Properties pane clicking the X in upper right-hand corner of the pane.
Managing
reports
In Edit Report view, you can add new reports to a document, and duplicate or delete reports
as you like.
To add a report to a document

1. Continue working with the Sales Revenue Report document.
2. Right-click the Report 1 tab at the bottom of the document pane.
A shortcut menu displays.
3. From the menu, select Insert Report.

A new empty report tab, called Report 2 is inserted into the document and displays at the
bottom of the document pane.
4. Right-click the Report 2 tab and select Rename Report.

The Report Manager Properties tab opens.
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5. In the Name field, type "My New Report" and press the Enter key.
The report tab displays the new name for the report.
Tip: You MUST press enter in order for the new report name to be retained.
You learn in later lessons how to bring data available in the document into this new report,
and how to format tables or charts to display the information in the most appropriate
manner.
Displaying data in tables and charts

Introduct
ion
The simplest style for displaying data is tables. Web Intelligence provides four different
types of tables: vertical, horizontal or financial tables, crosstab and form.

· Describe the table types available in Web Intelligence.
About
tables
Vertical tables
The vertical presentation style is the default style for presenting data. Vertical tables display
header cells at the top of the table and the corresponding data in columns. By default, the
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header cells display the names of the dimensions, details, and measures included in the
table. The body cells display the corresponding values.
Horizontal tables or financial tables

A horizontal or financial table is similar to a vertical table except that the data runs
horizontally rather than vertically. By default, the row headers display the names of the
dimensions, details, and measures included in the table. The body cells display the
corresponding values. This table format is useful for reports with several measures, such as
financial reports and balance sheets.
Crosstabs
A crosstab looks similar to a spreadsheet and displays data in a matrix with row and column
headings describing the content of each cell.
Crosstabs display values for dimensions across the top axis and on the left axis. The body
displays the values of a measure that correspond to the cross-section of the dimensions.
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Forms
Forms are useful in a report if you want to display detailed information per customer,
product, or partner. For example, a form is a useful way of displaying individual customer
records with information such as the customer account, name, and address. Forms are also
useful for formatting address labels for envelopes.
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Presenting data in free-standing cells
Introduct
ion
Free-standing cells are single cells that stand alone in a report. You can use free-standing
cells to display information that adds meaning to your report, such as:
· Text comments: Type messages or questions, or add titles.
· Images: Display logos, icons, or photographs.
· Formulas or calculations: Add custom formulas or calculations.
· Last refresh date: Display the date when the document results were refreshed with
the most recent data from the database.
· DrillFilter function: Display the names of the objects by which the data on a drilled
report is filtered.
· Page numbers: Display the page number of each report page.

 Insert a blank cell in a report.
 Display the date that the document was last refreshed.
 Display text in a blank cell.
 Format and align the new cells in the report.
Inserting the refresh date in a

free-standing cell
In this scenario, you open a document that has the following objects available: State, City,
Store name, Year, and Sales revenue. You will insert two free-standing cells in this report. In
the first cell, you will display text showing the last date and time the document was
refreshed. In the second cell, you will display text that will identify the last refresh data.
Then you will format the new cells.
To insert the last refresh date in a free-standing cell

1. Open the Tables document in the Java Report Panel and check that the Report 1 tab is
selected.
2. In the Report Manager, click the Templates tab.
3. If necessary, click + to expand the Free-Standing Cells template folder.
4. Click + to expand the Formula and Text Cells template folder
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5. In the Document zone, click the Report Title cell to select the cell, then using drag and
drop, move the cell over to the right in the window.
6. In the Templates tab, in the Report Manager, drag the Last Refresh Data cell template and
drop it in the Document zone, just to the left of the report title cell.
An empty cell is inserted in the document zone, and the date when the document was last
refreshed appears automatically in this cell.
To change the default date/time format

1. Click the Properties tab of the Report Manager.
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The Properties tab displays, showing the default properties of the new cell that is selected in
the Document zone
In the General properties zone, note that the formula "=LastExecutionDate()" appears in the
Text box. This is a predefined formula provided in the Templates tab to make it simple for
you to display this type of data in a report.
2. At the bottom of the Text Format zone, position your cursor over the Date/Time number
format.
An Expand button appears to the right of Data/Time, which allows you to change the
formatting of the text in the cell
3. Click the Expand button that appears to the far right of the Number format zone.
The Number Format dialog box is displayed
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4. Click November 7, 2004 in the Properties zone, to select this date format.
5. Click OK.
The date format is updated in the report
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Continue working with this document.
To insert text to label the new cell

1. In Edit Report view, click the Templates tab of the Report Manager.
2. If necessary, click + to expand the Formula and Text Cells template folder
3. Drag the Blank Cell template into the Document zone, just to the left of the new Last
Refresh Date cell.
A second empty cell is inserted in the document zone:
4. Click this new cell to select it in the Document zone, as shown above.

The Properties tab displays, showing the default properties of the new cell that is selected in
the Document zone
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6. In the General zone, click the Text text box.
7. Type Last refresh: in the Text text box and press the Return key.
The text appears in the second cell you just created.
The text that appears in both new cell is too big and will not fit in the space available. Next
you are going to change the text style of this new cells at the same time.
Continue working with this document.
To modify the default text style in both cells at the same time
1. Click the Configure Views drop-down arrow on the Standard toolbar.
2. Select Toolbars.
3. Click Formatting to display the Formatting toolbar.
4. In the Document zone, verify that the second cell you inserted is still selected.
5. Press the CTRL key and click the first cell that displays the date.
Note: You can also select multiple cells by using the "lasso" technique. Press the mouse button
down anywhere in the white space in the Document zone and drag the cursor to encircle the
cells you want to highlight.
Both cells are now selected and highlighted, and the Properties tab now shows the default
text style for inserted cells.
6. On the Formatting toolbar, click the Font Size drop-down arrow and select 10.
The text in both cells now appears in size 10 font.
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However, you now need to expand horizontally the Date cell so that you can see the entire
date.
7. Click in the Document zone to deselect both cells.
8. Click the Date cell to select it, then position your cursor over the right border of this cell,
until the cursor turns into a double arrow. Press and hold down the mouse button.
A bar appears where your cursor is positioned, which allows you to expand the cell size.
9. Move the cursor to the right, so that you position the right border of this cell next to the
Report Title cell.
10. Click in the Document zone to deselect the cell.
The text is now displayed in the appropriate size.
11. Save the document.
Enhancing the Presentation of Reports
Using breaks, calculations and sorts

Introduct
ion
In this lesson you learn to organize data in a table by applying breaks, calculations, sorts,
report filters and alerters. Some of these tasks you have already used in Lesson 3 of this
course, while viewing a Web Intelligence document in Interactive view mode.
This unit describes these tasks in more detail, because as report designers who create
complex reports for yourselves and others, you will most likely work in the Java Report
Panel. The Java Report Panel offers the most extensive reporting features, and because you
can toggle very easily between the Edit Query view and the Edit Report view in a single
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interface, it makes it easy for you to change the query definition as you finalize your report,
if you desire.

 Apply breaks to break up long tables of data.
 Apply calculations, such as sums and counts.
 Apply sorts to display data in order of the most important information.
About
breaks
Breaks allow you to break up data in tables into groups according to the data and values you
select.
When you apply a break, Web Intelligence separates all the data for each unique value of
the selected variable. It inserts a blank row or column after each value, which allows you to
easily insert subtotals for the group of data.
As you can see in the image below, a long table that is tedious to read and understand is
converted in to a block of data that is much clearer and simpler to read. Break has been
applied, on Plan Name. Each group in the table displays Face Amount for a unique plan
name.
In the extra row that is inserted into the table after each group, you can easily insert sum
totals for revenue over the face amount.
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Using breaks has two main advantages:
· You can more efficiently organize how your data is represented.
· You can display subtotals.
When you insert a break on a dimension, the values for the dimension are automatically
sorted in ascending order.
If the values are numeric, the lowest value appears in the first row of the table, the highest
in the last row.
If the values are alphabetical characters, then the values are sorted in alphabetical order
from top to bottom.
To organize a report with breaks
1. In the Java Report Panel, create a new document using the eFashion universe, and build a
query by selecting the State, Year, Quarter and Sales revenue objects.
2. Click Run Query.

The top of the table should look similar to the one below:
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3. Right-click the Report 1 tab and select Duplicate Report from the drop-down menu.
4. In Report 1 (1), click on a detail row in the Year column.
The column is highlighted.
5. From the Report Toolbar, click the Insert/Remove Break button.
The table is reorganized into groups of data. Each value of the object is separated into a
separate group of data.
You can insert multiple breaks by repeating the same process on another row or column.
6. Create an additional break on Quarter. The report should look similar to the one below.
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7. Create an additional break on State.
8. Keep the document open.
To delete breaks
1. Click a cell in the column or row where you want to remove a break. Click on State.
2. From the Report toolbar, click the Insert/Remove Break button.
The break is removed from the report. The report should look similar to the one below.
3. Save the document to your Favorites as Multiple Breaks.
About
calculations
Web Intelligence provides standard calculation functions to help you make quick calculations
on the data in your reports. These calculations are available from the drop-down list of
calculations on the Edit Report view toolbar.
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You can calculate sums, averages and percentages. You can also calculate the total count,
and the minimum and maximum values for a variable.
To organize a report with calculations

1. In the Report 1 (1) report of the Multiple Breaks document, click a detail row in the
Sales revenue data column.
2. From the Report Toolbar, click the Insert Sum button.
A total sum is inserted in the bottom row of each group in the table.
Note: You can insert different calculations by clicking on the drop-down arrow beside the Insert Sum
button.
To insert multiple calculations
Continue using the Report 1 (1) report.

1. Click on a detail row in the Sales revenue column.
2. From the Report Toolbar, click the arrow beside the Insert Sum button.
3. Select Count as the calculation that you want to apply to the data in the column.
The report should look similar to the one below.
4. From the Report Toolbar, click the arrow beside the Insert Sum button.
5. Select Percentage as the calculation that you want to apply to the data in the column.
The report should look similar to the one below.
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6. Save the document to your Favorites as Multiple Calculations.
To delete a calculation
1. Right-click the table row that contains the Count calculation.
2. From the drop down menu, select Remove Row.
Note: If you were working with a crosstab or percentages, you would select Remove Column.
3. Close the document without saving the changes.
About
sorts
The Sort feature allows you to format data in ascending or descending order. In the example
below, the table above has the default sorts. The table below has been resorted to show the
data sorted by Producer Name from high to low. The two tables present the data in very
different ways.
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To create a report with sorts
In this scenario, you want to sort the data so that the state with the highest sales revenue in
any given year is displayed in the group first. To do this, you apply a sort on the Sales
revenue column of data.
1. In the Multiple Calculations document, insert a new report.
2. Click the Year object, then while holding down the Ctrl key, click the State and Sales
revenue objects.
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3. Using drag and drop, move the three objects to the Document zone to project the data in a
vertical table.
5. Click the drop-down arrow beside the Apply/Remove Sort button.
6. Select Descending as the sort order.
The column is sorted in the order you specified. Your document should look similar to the
one below:
Note: Clicking on the Apply/Remove Sort button applies a Default sort to the column or row selected.
By default the results are sorted in Ascending order. To sort in Descending order, you need
to click the arrow next to the sort icon.
7. Save the document to your Favorites as Sorted Data.
Using report filters

Introduct
ion
In the next section, you learn how to limit the data displayed in a report by applying report
filters.

∗ Explain the difference between using query filters and using report filters.
∗ Create a report filter.
About report
filters
You have already used query filters in a previous lesson. Web Intelligence gives you two
methods for restricting the data displayed in a document:
· Query filters allow you to limit the amount of data that is retrieved from the data
source and returned by the query to your Web Intelligence documents. You can only apply
query filters when you are creating or editing the query in the Edit Query view.
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· Report filters, on the other hand, allow you to restrict the data shown in the report
simply by hiding the data you are not interested in. The data is still contained in the
document; it is just hidden from the report display.
You apply report filters when you are editing a document in the Edit Report view, using the
Filter button on the Report toolbar.
Tables or other blocks in your reports can sometimes be very large, and not very easy to
read at a glance. To make the report easier to read, you apply a report filter on a specific
object, so that it displays just the information that interests you.
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You can apply report filters in two ways:
• A global filter is applied to the whole report - thus affecting all data blocks in the report.
• A block filter is applied to a section, table or chart within a report - thus affecting only the
data in the block.
You can define filters on dimensions, measures, details and variables listed on the Data tab
of the document.
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To create a report filter
In this scenario you will filter an existing table to show only data for the Year 2003.
Continue working with the Sorted Data document.
1. In the Report 3 tab, click the Year column to select it.

Note: You create a block filter by clicking in the block; or, create a global filter by clicking on the
document zone outside the block.
2. In the Edit Report view, click the Show/Hide Filter Pane button.
The Report Filters pane appears.
3. From the data tab, drag the Year object into the Report Filters pane.
The Filter Editor dialog box appears.
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4. From the Operator drop-down menu, verify that Equal to is selected.
5. Under Operand Type, click Values(s) from list.
6. Double-click 2003.
7. Click OK.
The report displays showing only the data for 2003.
To delete a report filter
1. If the Filter Pane is not already showing, click the Show/Hide Filter Pane button.
2. Click the Year Equal to: 2003 report filter to highlight it.
3. Press the Delete key.
4. Click the Show/Hide Filter Pane button again to close the pane.
5. Continue working in the same document.
Using alerters to highlight information

Introduct
ion
In the next section, you learn how to highlight data that meets specific requirements by
creating and applying alerters.

• Explain how you can use alerters to highlight important information.
• Create a basic alerter.
• Activate an alerter in a report.
• Create complex alerters using conditions and sub-alerters.
About
alerters
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Alerters enable you to highlight results that meet or fail specific business targets. You can
create a simple alerter to highlight particularly high or low results with a specific color or
advanced alerters that display a text comment, such as "High Performer".
For example, you can create an alerter to highlight margin results that exceed $1,100,000.
The margin result that is greater than $1,100,000 is highlighted every time the report data
is refreshed.
An alerter contains five elements:
 a name
 an object or cell contents
 an operator
 an operand value(s) or another object
 the conditional formatting
The object or cell contents, the operator and the operand make up the condition that
determines whether the formatting will be applied to each cell where the alerter is applied.
When you apply the new alerter to a table column, row or cell on a report, Web Intelligence
applies the condition to the cell values and displays any values that meet the condition in
the alerter with the formatting specified. Additional rules to remember when creating
alerters are:
• You can apply alerters to tables, forms, section cells, and free-standing cells.
• Alerters cannot be applied to charts.
• You can include up to 30 alerters in a document. You can apply those alerters to a
maximum of 20 table columns or rows, free-standing cells or section cells on the
reports. A maximum of 10 alerters can be applied to a single-table column or row,
free-standing cell or section cell.
Web Intelligence applies a default format to display the alerter. You can make changes to
this default format. You can insert multiple conditions within an alerter. You can also create
an advanced alerter by inserting a formula.
Creating and activating

an alerter
To create a basic alerter
In this scenario you are going to build a report that shows States below structure. You want
to highlight record combinations that had Face Amount over million i.e $1,000,000.
1. Open the Sorted Data report and click the Desired Report tab.
3. Add the Face Amount object to the query.
4. Click Run Query.
Margin should be available in the Data tab of the Report Manager. However, it should not
show in the report.
5. In Edit Report view, click any detail row in the Face Amount column.
6. From the Reporting toolbar, click Alerters.
The Alerters dialog box displays.
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7. Click New.
The Alerter Editor displays.
8. Under Alerter name, type Greater Than Million.

You can also include an optional description of the alert.
9. In the Sub-Alerter section, under Filtered object or cell, click the Browse button.
10. Select the Select an Object or Variable from the drop-down menu.
11. In the list of available objects and variables, click Face Amount.
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12. Click OK.
13. Under Operator, select Greater than or equal to.
14. Under Operand, enter 1000000.
Note: Do not include commas or decimals when specifying number values.
Web Intelligence applies the default format to the results specified in the alerter as
displayed in Cell contents. You can retain the defaults or modify the format properties by
clicking the Format button.
15. Click Format.
Note: The Alerter Display dialog box appears:
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16. In the Font style drop-down list, change the font definition to Bold Italic.
17. Click OK.
18. In the Alerter Editor, click OK.
The new alerter is added to the list of alerters in the Alerters dialog box as shown below.
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19. Verify that the check box beside the new alerter is selected.
20. Click OK.
The alerter is applied to the report results.
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Notice that although Margin is not in the table itself, it can still be referenced when creating
the alerters.
To activate alerters
In this scenario, you will apply the alerter that was created in the previous step to other
columns so that they display in red when Face Amount is over $1,000,000.
1. Click a detail row in the Application Policy Number column.
2. From the report toolbar, click Alerters.
The Alerters dialog box displays a list of available alerters.
3. From the Alerters dialog box, check the box next to Greater Than Million
4. Click OK.
The report is updated to show Application Policy Number with Face Amount over $1,000,000
in red.
Note: To deactivate an alerter, click the column, row, section cell or free-standing cell, click Alerters
and deselect the check box beside the alerter.
5. Save the document to your Favorites as Alerts.
6. Close the document.
Creating complex
alerters
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You can apply multiple conditions in a single alerter.
For example, you can highlight sales revenue when results reach over $300K and when
those results occur in stores in any US state except California. To do this, you create an
alerter with the following two conditions:
The formatting generated by the alerter is the same for each condition. To create different
conditions that each implement different formatting, you need to define multiple sub-
alerters in the alerter.
Note: The maximum number of alerters that can be created in a document is 30.
To create a complex alerter
In this scenario, we are going to build an alerter that will highlight sales revenue less than
$3,000,000, and we want the alerter to apply to all US states except Florida.
1. In the Java Report Panel, build a query using the eFashion universe, and select the State,
Sales revenue and Quantity sold objects.
2. Click Run Query.
The column is highlighted.
4. From the Reporting toolbar, click Alerters.
The Alerters dialog box displays.
5. Click New.
The Alerter Editor displays.
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6. Under Alerter name, type Low revenue US states.
You can also include an optional description of the alert.
7. Verify that Sales revenue appears in the Filtered object or zone field.
This is the object that the alerter will use to filter data.
8. Under Operator, select Less than.
You are interested in highlighting states that earned less than $3,000,000.
9. Under Operand, enter 3000000.
Note: Do not include commas or decimals when specifying number values.
Now you want to add a condition to exclude Florida from this alerter.
10. Click + to the far right of the Operands field.
Note: The Alerter Editor expands, so that you can combine another condition in the alerter defintion.
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11. Click the Browse button next to the second Sales revenue condition.
This will allow you to base the alerter on an object or cell other than Sales revenue.
12. Click Select an object or variable.
The Objects and Variables dialog box appears.
13. Click State.
14. Click OK to close the Objects and Variables dialog box.
15. In the second condition's Operator field, select Not equal to .
16. In the Type a value field, type Florida.
Alternatively, you can click the Browse button next to the Type a value field, click Select
Values from the drop-down menu, and select Florida from the List of Values dialog box.
The Alerter Editor should now appear like this:
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You have defined the alerter with two conditions:
o The first condition will highlight sales revenue figures that are less than
$3,000,000.
o The second condition will exclude the state of Florida from the alerter.
17. Change the formatting of the alerter to Bold Italic font style, as in the previous exercise.
18. Click OK.
The new alerter is added to the list of alerters in the Alerters dialog box as shown below.
19. Verify that the check box beside the new alerter is selected.
20. Click OK.
The report is updated so that sales revenue below $3,000,000 is highlighted in red.
However, you can see that the sales revenue earned by Florida has not been highlighted by
the alerter, even though the state earned less than $3,000,000.
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21. Save the document to your Favorites as Alerters.
Organizing a report into sections

Introduct
ion
In the previous section of this lesson, you saw that you could group data in a block using the
break function.
In this section, you learn how to:
 Break a report into sections.
 Insert a sum and position it using drag and drop.
 Insert a chart in each section.
About
sections
You can group data in a block using the break function as illustrated below.
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You can also use sectioning to group data. The difference is that the grouped value appears
as a header outside the block instead of remaining within the block.
However, there is a more important difference. A break only groups within a block, whereas
sectioning groups the entire report. Notice the section lines in the illustration below run
across the width of the report.
This has a number of advantages:
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• You can have multiple blocks projected from the same microcube within a
single report, all sub-grouped to the sectioned level.
• You can insert subtotal cells, repeated in each section, which are created by
the simple process of drag and drop.
In the example below, the subtotal appears to the right of the section header.
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To create a section
In this scenario you will create a report that is sectioned by State. Within the section you will
display a table, chart and aggregate totals.
1. In the Java Report Panel, build a query using the eFashion universe, and select the Year,
Quarter, State and Sales revenue objects.
2. Click Run Query.

3. Right-click on a detail row in the Plan Name column.
A drop-down menu displays.
4. From the drop-down menu, select Set as Section.
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The column you selected defines which object is used to split up the table into sections.
Each value of this object is displayed as a section header, and the table below each section
header displays the data concerning that value.
In this example, the object used to create a section is State, and we see here that the first
value returned by the Plan Name, 10 YEAR FLEX TERM SERIES VI, is displayed as the first
section header. Data concerning 10 YEAR FLEX TERM SERIES VI is displayed in a table just
below the new header:
5. Save the document to your Favorites folder as Sectioned Data.

To display an aggregate
Continue working with the Sectioned Data report.
1. Click a detail row in the Face Amount column.
2. From the Report Toolbar, click Insert Sum.
The data is calculated and inserted in a new row at the bottom of the table in each section.
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Note: When you apply a sum in a sectioned report, the overall total is not calculated and
displayed at the bottom of the report, like it is when use a break and then apply a sum.
3. Click any value in the Face Amount column, press the Ctrl key, and drag the cell with your
mouse until it is level with the section heading, as shown below.
4. While holding the Ctrl key, release the mouse button to insert a cell.
The section sum total, that is the 10 YEAR RECAP SERIES VI overall Face Amount, appears
next to the section header.
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Note: Using the Report Manager's Properties tab, you can edit the formatting of these cells
by removing the default borders, changing the default font size, color and so on. You will
learn about formatting tables and charts in later lessons.
To insert a block in each section
Continue using the report from the previous exercise.
1. Click the Templates tab in the Report Manager.
2. Click on the + to expand the Bar group.
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3. Click and drag Vertical Grouped to the report area dropping it to the right of the data
table.
The panel automatically changes to View Structure mode displaying the structure of the
report.
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4. Click the Data tab in the Report Manager.
5. Drag the Sales revenue object and drop it on the y-axis of the chart.
6. Drag the Year object and drop it on the x-axis of the chart.
The measure and dimension objects are positioned within the template.
7. From the Reporting toolbar, click View Results.

The Document zone appears in View Results mode, and the block is inserted into each
section showing the values specified.
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Navigating from section
to section
To navigate from section to section
1. In the Report Manager, click Map.
The Map tab displays all the reports and sections contained in this document. In the
example, there is only a single report.
2. Click on the + to expand the Report 1 structure.
3. Click on Colorado to navigate to this section.
The Document zone scrolls down to display the section selected within the report.
Note: You can use the Map tab in the Report Manager to jump from one report to
another, as well as navigating from section to section. This feature is useful when you have
a large document with multiple reports and many sections to navigate through.
To delete a section
It is recommended that you use the View Structure mode to display the report structure
when deleting a section.
1. In Edit Report view, click View Structure.
The section dividers show the beginning and end of the section.
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2. Click the start or end divider line of the section you want to remove.
3. Press the Delete key.
4. Click the section cell and press the Delete key.
5. Click View Results to view the document with a single table and chart.
6. Save the document and leave it open.
Copying data to other applications

Introduct
ion
In Web Intelligence, you can easily copy data from a report into other applications, such as
Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Power Point. This makes it easier to present and share your
analysis in different formats.
In this section, you learn how to:
· Copy and paste a block of data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
· Copy and paste a block of data into a Microsoft Power Point slide.
Copying a block of data using

Microsoft Clipboard
To copy data to an Excel spreadsheet
1. Continue using the report from the previous exercise.
2. Select the table block.
3. Press the Ctrl + C keys to copy the table block to the Microsoft Clipboard.
4. Launch Microsoft Excel.
5. Click the Edit menu and select Paste.
The table appears as an image file in the Excel spreadsheet.
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To copy data to a Power Point slide
1. 1 Continue using the report from the previous exercise.
2. 2 Select the chart block.
3. 3 Press the Ctrl + C keys to copy the table block to the Microsoft Clipboard.
4. 4 Launch Microsoft Power Point and open a file that contains slides into which you want
to paste data from Web Intelligence.
5. 5 Click the Edit menu and select Paste.
The table appears as an image file in the Power Point slide.
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Formatting Reports
Document formatting
Introduct
ion
When you edit a report in the Java Report Panel, the Report Manager's Properties tab allows
you to format all the elements in a document.

• Describe the report elements that you can format using the Report Manager
Properties tab.
• Display the Report Manager Properties tab.
• Modify default report properties.
• Modify default table properties.
• Modify default cell properties.
• Modify default section properties.
Displaying the Report Manager

Properties tab
You can format your documents at various levels within the body of the report. Using the
Report Manager, you can choose to modify the default property settings for all levels within
the body of the document: the reports contained within the document, the charts and tables
in the reports, and even the cells and chart elements in the tables and charts.
You choose which level you want to format in a document by clicking on the appropriate part
of a report, and then changing the default settings in the Properties tab of the Report
Manager.
The example below shows where you point your cursor and click in a Web Intelligence
document, in order to select and format each different document element.
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To view the Report Properties:
1. Open the Web Intelligence Samples folder within the Public Folders folder.
2. Click the Modify link below the Web Intelligence Sample document from the list of
objects.
The document opens in the Java Report Panel.
3. From the Reporting toolbar, click the View Page Layout button.
The document is displayed in Page Layout mode and you can now view the reports in the
document as they will appear when printed.
4. Scroll down the page until you can see the white space below the table and chart displayed
in this report.
5. Click in the white space well below both blocks, so that you select the report zone itself.
A large frame appears, highlighting the margins of the report.
The Properties tab opens and displays the default properties set for the report you are
currently viewing.
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In the General section, the title of the report you are currently viewing appears in the Name
zone.
The Appearance section allows you to change the color of the report background, as well
as links that have been both visited and unvisited, if you have links to other web pages in
this report.
7. Click the + plus sign next to the Page layout properties header to expand that section so
that you can see the options available.
The Page Layout section allows you to modify default margin settings, page size and
header and footer properties for the report you are viewing.
To apply any changes in the Properties tab, you need to either press the Enter key or click in
the Document zone.
Changing the display of the

Properties tab
The Report Manager's Properties tab is organized into different sections. Each section
provides various properties settings that you can modify, depending on the document
element you have selected.
Regardless of the report element you are formatting, you can choose to display the
Properties sections using one of following Properties tab navigation buttons.
Properties tab
Description
button
Displays the properties in a catalog view.
Displays the properties in alphabetical ascending order.
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Shows or hides text at the bottom of the Report Manager Properties tab,
which describes the property you have selected.
Automatically expands all sections in the Properties tab.
Automatically collapses all sections in the Properties tab.
Modifying the default report

properties
As we have seen, when you highlight a report in a Web Intelligence document, the Report
Manager Properties tab provides options that you can use to change the default formatting
of the report.
In this exercise, you will practice using a few of the options available to you for formatting
reports.
Continue using the Web Intelligence Sample report from the previous exercise.
To modify the report background:

1. Verify that the Web Intelligence Sample document is still displayed in Page Layout view.
Note: Make sure that you have selected the report as shown previously, so that the report
margins are highlighted.
2. Click the Properties tab in the Report Manager.
3. In the Appearance section, click the Background color zone, then select Yellow from the
Color drop-down list to change the color of the report background.
4. Click + next to the Page layout properties section to expand the section.
5. In the Page layout section, and in the Margins zones, change the Top, Bottom, Left, and
Right Margins to 52 px.
6. In the Page size zone, select Letter from the Size drop-down list.
7. In the Page orientation zone, select Landscape from the Orientation drop-down list.
8. In the Show page header and Show page footer zones, verify that the boxes are
selected and set the header and footer height to 32 px.
The Report Properties tab should appear like this:
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The changes made to the report properties display in the document as shown below.
Modifying the default table

properties
When you highlight a table in a Web Intelligence report, the Report Manager Properties tab
provides options that allow you to change the default formatting of the selected table. In this
exercise, you will practice using a few of the options available to you for formatting tables.
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Continue using the Web Intelligence Sample report from the previous exercise.
To change table properties

1. Select the table in the report by positioning your cursor just outside the table until a gray
border appears, and then clicking the border.
2. Select the Properties tab of the Report Manager.
The Report Manager displays the Table Properties tab.
3. In the General properties section, and in the Name zone, change the name of the block to
Order Table.
4. Click + next to Display to expand the Display section.
5. Change the Cell spacing to 10 px.
6. In the Appearance section, click the Background image zone and click the Browse
button to the far right of this zone, to select an image.
The Background Image dialog box displays.
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7. Click Skin.
8. From the Skin drop-down menu, select Curve.
9. Click OK to close the Background Image box.
The background of the table appears with a marble effect:
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To change the format of the header cells
1. Click + next to the Header cells zone, to expand the Header cells properties.
2. Click + next to the Text Format zone, to expand the Header cells text formatting
properties.
3. In the Horizontal text alignment zone, select Center from the drop-down menu.
To change the position of the table on the page

1. Scroll down the Table Properties tab and click + next to Page Layout to expand the
Page Layout section.
2. Click + next to Position to open the Position properties section.
3. In the Position zone, change the Left Edge value to 32 px and the Top Edge value to
52 px.
4. The Properties tab should appear like this:
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The table is re-positioned on the page.
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Modifying the default cell
properties
When you highlight a cell in a Web Intelligence document, the Report Manager Properties
tab provides options that allow you to change the default formatting of the selected cell.
To change the cell properties
1. Click any detail row in the Order Amount data column.

All the cells in the column are highlighted in gray, to show that the column of data is
highlighted.
The Report Manager displays the Cell Properties tab.
3. In the Display section, and in the Width and Height zones, adjust the width to 102 px
and the height to 32 px.
The width and height of the cells in the column selected are updated to the sizes you
specified.
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The change in width is applied to the column specified only. The change of height has been
applied to all cells in the table, so that the table is visually balanced. You can also adjust the
cell width and height manually, by clicking and dragging the cell borders.
Note: The default text for header cells is the variable or object name. The header cell names
can be modified using the Formula toolbar which is accessed from the Report toolbar.
To modify multiple cell properties simultaneously

1. Click the Customer Name cell header and while holding down the Ctrl key, click the
Order Amount and Unit Price cell headers as well, so that all three cells are highlighted.
2. Click the Properties tab on the Report Manager.
3. Scroll down to the Appearance section, and click + next to the Text Format zone to
expand the Text Format properties.
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4. In the Text color zone, select Yellow from the selection of colors.
5. In the Horizontal text alignment zone, select Center from the drop-down list.
6. In the Background color zone, select Black in the Color drop-down list.
7. Click any detail row in the Order Amount data column.
All the cells in the column are highlighted in gray, to show that the column of data is
highlighted.
8. In the Text Format zone, change the text to Font Size 10, Bold, and Blue.
The text in the selected cells is formatted with the options selected.
9. Holding down the Ctrl key again, select all three cells in the bottom row of the table.
10. In the Text Format zone, change the text color to Blue.
The text in the selected cells is formatted with the options selected.
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To insert a free-standing cell
In this exercise, you will use a free-standing cell to insert page numbers in the document.
1. Click the View Page Layout button on the Reporting toolbar to view the document in page
layout mode.
2. Click the Templates tab of the Report Manager.
3. Click + to expand the Free-Standing Cells folder.
4. Click + to expand the Page Number Cells folder.
The Page Number Cell templates are displayed in the Templates tab.
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5. Scroll to the bottom of the document to display the area of the report where you want to
position the page number.
6. Click in the white area beneath the page margins in yellow.
The footer zone is highlighted.
7. Drag the Page Number template to the bottom of the page and drop it in the page footer.
The page numbers appear in the footer of your document

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Modifying the default section

properties
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When you highlight a section in a Web Intelligence document, the Report Manager
Properties tab provides options that allow you to change the default formatting of the
selected section. In this exercise, you will practice using a few of the options available to you
for formatting sections.
To change the section format

1. Click just below the table to select the section.
A dotted gray line appears above the section header and frames the entire section, to
indicate that the section is highlighted.
The Section Properties tab appears.
3. In the Background image zone, click the Browse button and select Skin in the
Background Image dialog box.
4. From the Skin drop-down menu, select Dots as the skin pattern.
5. Click OK.
The selected skin pattern displays in the section background.
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6. Close the document without saving.
Formatting charts
Introduct
ion
Like reports, tables and cells, charts are composed of a number of elements that can be
formatted separately. Web Intelligence XI provides all the chart formatting features that you
are familiar with when creating professional reports.
In this section of the lesson, we will explore a few of the chart formatting features that are
available.

 Change the default properties for a bar chart.
 Change the default properties for a pie chart.
Looking at the chart

properties
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To look at the chart properties
1 Open the Tables document in the Java Report Panel.

2 Insert a new report into the document.
3 Drag and drop the Vertical Grouped Bar chart template in the new report.
The Document zone switches to View Structure mode.
4 Using drag and drop, move the Sales revenue object to the measures place holder in the
chart structure.
5 Move the State object to the dimension object placeholder and the Year object to the
optional dimension object placeholder.
6 Click View Results.
The new chart displays as shown below.
7 Click in the bar chart to select the chart.

A gray border appears around the chart to indicate that it is highlighted.
8 Click the Properties tab of the Report Manager.
The Properties tab opens and displays the default properties set for the chart you have
selected.
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The Chart Properties tab allows you to change the default formatting of the chart.
Formatting a
bar chart
In the previous exercise, you highlighted the bar chart and opened the Chart Properties tab
in the Report Manager.
In this exercise, you will practice using some of the options available to you for formatting
charts. To make this chart more attractive and easier to read, you will:
• Reduce the font size of the Sales revenue values so that they are more in line
with the rest of the chart.
• Modify the size of the chart.
To change the font size of a chart element

1 Click + next to Display in the Chart Properties tab.

2 Adjust the chart Height and Width so that it is visually more appealing. Set the width to 700
px and the Height to 300 px.
3 Click + in the X Axis zone to expand the X Axis properties.
4 Click + in the Values zone.
5 In the Text Format zone, click the Browse button to display the Text formatting dialog
box.
6 Adjust the default font size to 6 points.
7 Click OK.
The values selected are updated to reflect the changes.
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To display the value for each bar
Continue working with the report from the previous exercise.
1 In the Appearance zone, click + next to Data, then click + next to Values to expand the
Data Values properties.
2 In the Show data values, click the Yes option.
The data values appear above each bar in the chart.
3 Keep the document open.
Formatting a
pie chart
In the next section, you will format a pie chart to make it more attractive and easier to read.
To display the axis legend

1 Insert a new report into the document.

2 Drag the Pie chart template onto the report.
3 Add the State and Sales revenue objects to the template placeholders.
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4 Click View Results.
The pie chart displays in the report as shown below.
5 Click in the pie chart to select the chart.

A gray border appears around the chart to indicate that it is highlighted.
6 Click the Properties tab of the Report Manager.
The Properties tab opens and displays the default properties set for the chart you have
selected.
7 In the Display zone, adjust the Height and Width of the pie chart. Set the height to 400
px and the width to 300 px.
8 In the Appearance zone, click Yes next to the Show floor option.
9 Change the show floor Wall color to light yellow.
To display the data values

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1 Click + next to the Data zone to expand the Data values properties.
2 In the Values zone, click Yes next to the Show data opt ion.
The data values appear as labels as shown below:
3 In the Values zone, click Yes next to the Show as percentages option.
The percentages appear as labels for the pie sections as shown below:
Experiment with the different features available in Web Intelligence for formatting charts.
4 Close the document without saving.
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Creating Formulas and Variables
Using formulas and variables in the Java

Report Panel
Introduct
ion
There are many different reasons why you may choose to create variables and define
formulas that calculate and display data in your report that you cannot retrieve using the
objects in the universe.
In this section, you learn three methods for creating new variables and their associated
formulas:
• Creating a variable that captures the user's response to a prompt when he or she
refreshes the report, and then displaying that value in a cell or other element in the
report.
• Creating a variable that calculates data, and then projecting the calculation in a new
column.
• Using document functions to create a variable that displays information about your
document, such as the author and document name in a report.
Note: When you create a formula, you always begin with the equal (=) sign and report
objects always appear inside square brackets.

 Create a variable that captures the user's response to a prompt.
 Create a variable to calculate sales tax.
 Modify a variable.
 Delete a variable.
 Create a variable from document functions.
Creating a variable as a response

to a prompt
In the following exercises, you will build a report that shows quarterly sales revenue with a
prompt that requires you to select the state each time the report is refreshed. You will also
create a formula that will display the name of the state in the report title, regardless of
which state is selected each time.
This formula will mean that the title is modified automatically, depending on which state the
user specifies.
To create a prompted filter in a report

1 In the Java Report Panel, build a query using the eFashion universe, and select the Year,
Quarter and Sales revenue objects.
2 Add a condition that prompts the user for State.
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3 Click Run Query.
The Prompts box opens, displaying the list of values returned for the selected object.
4 Double-click on California.
5 Click Run Query.
The report displays data concerning California, and automatically inserts a cell called Report
Title.
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To create a formula to capture the response to the prompt
You will now create a formula that will display in the report title the value of the object
selected in the prompt.
1 Click the Report Title cell.
A gray border appears around the cell to show that is selected.
2 On the Reporting toolbar, click Show/Hide Formula Toolbar.
The formula toolbar appears above the document zone.
3 On the Formula toolbar, click Formula Editor.

The Formula toolbar expands to display the Formula Editor.
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In the Formula Editor, you define the characteristics of a formula by selecting data objects,
functions and operators from the lists in the tabs. The formula appears in the Formula text
zone as you type it.
4 Press the Backspace key to delete Report Title.
5 Type = (equal sign) to start the formula definition.
6 Type (including the quotes) "Quarterly Revenues for ".
7 Click the Operators tab, then double-click + (plus sign).
8 Click the Functions tab, then click - to collapse the All folder.
9 Click + to expand the Data Provider folder.
10 Double-click UserResponse.
The mouse pointer is automatically positioned between the parentheses that appear after
User Response function.
11 Within the parenthesis, type the prompt text (including the quotes and colon):
"Enter State:".
The text must match the prompt text exactly and is case-sensitive.
12 Click Validate to check the syntax of the formula.
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13 Click OK.
The Report Title cell in the document zone displays the title you created as a formula and
also displays the value of the object you last selected in your prompt.
If the words "for" and "California" do not appear in the title with a space between them,
position your cursor just after the word "for" in the Formula Toolbar, and type a space
directly in the formula.
Be sure to validate the formula by clicking the Validate button in the Formula Toolbar in
order to save your edits.
14 Refresh the report selecting a different state. Notice that the title updates automatically.
15 Save the report to your Favorites as Formulas.
To define the formula as a variable in the document
You are now going to turn this formula into a variable, so that it appears in the Data tab of
the Report Manager and is always available in the document.
Continue working with the Formulas document.
1 Make sure the Report Title cell is still selected.

2 From the Formula toolbar, click Create Variable.
The Create Variable box opens.
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3 In the Name field, type Commision Rate.
4 Under Qualification, click Dimension as the type of formula.
5 Verify that the formula shown in the Formula box is the one you created in the previous
exercise.
6 Click OK.
The formula is given a Variable name.
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7 Click Refresh Data selecting New York as the state.
The title changes to reflect the name of the new value selected.
As we discussed earlier, after a variable has been created it is available for use within the
document.
8 In the Report Manager, click the Data tab.
The new variable, Commision Rate, appears in the list of variables in the Data tab and can
be used in the same manner as universe-based objects.
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9 Drag and drop Commision Rate variable onto the report.
10 Save the document to your Favorites as Formulas & Variables.
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Creating a variable to
calculate sales tax
In this scenario, you want to display the tax calculated on sales revenue. This is not an
object in the eFashion universe, so you cannot display the calculation in your report without
creating a formula to perform the calculation yourself.
You want to create the formula, but you also want to define it as a variable so that you can
use it whenever you open the document to refresh the data, or insert new reports or blocks.
To insert a column for the new variable

Continue working with the Formulas & Variables document.
1 Click in the data portion of the Sales Revenue column.

The column is highlighted in gray to indicate that you have selected the column.
2 Click the arrow next to Insert Row Above.
A drop-down menu appears that allows you to insert columns before and after or rows above
and below the cell you selected.
3 Select Insert column after.

A column is inserted just to the right of the Sales revenue column.
4 Click in the data portion of the new column.

The new column is highlighted.
To define the formula and project the calculated data in the new
column
1 Verify that the new column is still highlighted in your table.
2 On the Formula toolbar, click Formula Editor to define the formula for the data you want
to display in this new column.
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3 In the Data tab, double-click Sales Revenue.
The equal sign (=) is automatically inserted in the Formula text box to begin the formula,
and the object you selected appears in brackets.
4 Click the Operators tab, then double-click * (asterisk).
5 Type 0.175 to define the tax rate.
Your formula should look similar to the one below.
6 Click the Validate button to validate that the formula is correct.

7 In the Formula Editor, click OK.
The Formula Editor closes and the report is displayed again in the document zone. The new
column displays data that reflects the values calculated by the formula.
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To define the formula as a variable
Continue working with the Formulas & Variables document.
1 Click the data portion of the new column.
2 On the Formula toolbar, click Create Variable.
The Create Variable box displays.
Note: Because you had highlighted the column that displays the calculated data, the formula
you just created appears automatically in the Formula text box.
3 In the Name field, type Sales Tax as the name of the variable.
4 Under Qualification, select Measure.
5 Under Formula, verify that the formula is the one you just created.
The Create Variable window should look similar to the one below.
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6 Click OK.
The Variable Editor closes and the updated table appears in the document zone.
7 Verify that the Data tab is selected in the Report Manager.

The new measure object, Sales Tax, that you just created appears in the Formulas &
Variables folder along with the other objects and variables
To complete the exercise, you will now rename the header cell in the column of data that
displays the sales tax values.
To rename the column header

1 Click the cell that corresponds to the header of the new column.
2 Click the Properties tab in the Report Manager.
The Properties tab displays default properties for cells, because the column header you
selected is a cell.
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3 In the General section, next to the Text zone, type Sales Tax.
4 Click anywhere outside the Cell Format box to accept the new text.
The new name displays in the new column header. This will also be the name of the new
variable you are creating.
5 Save the document to your Favorites folder as Quarterly Revenue.
Modifying and deleting a

variable
To modify or delete a variable, start by selecting the variable in the Data tab in the Report
Manager.
To modify a variable
Continue with the Quarterly Revenue document.
1 Verify that the Data tab in the Report Manager is displayed.

2 Right-click the variable Sales Tax.
3 Select Edit Variable.
The Variable Editor opens and allows you to change any aspect of the variable you choose:
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4 Change the sales tax from 0.175 to 0.06.
5 Click to Validate the formula.
6 Click OK.
A window opens asking you to confirm the modification to this variable.
7 Click Yes.
The Variable Editor closes and the report appears in the document zone with the updated
sales tax.
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To delete a variable
1 Right-click the variable Sales Tax.

2 Select Delete Variable.
A message box warns that this variable is used in reports in this document.
3 Click Yes to delete.

Notice that the Sales Tax values are removed from the report.
Creating a variable from

document functions
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You can use document functions to create a variable that displays information about your
document, such as the author and document name in a report.
In this scenario, you will use the same document you have been working with in the previous
exercises to display the document name and its author in the report.
To display the author's name as a variable in the report

Continue with the Quarterly Revenue report.
1 Click the Templates tab in the Report Manager.

2 Click + to expand the Free-Standing Cells folder.
3 Click + to expand Formula and Text Cells.
4 From the Formula and Text Cells options, drag Blank Cell onto the document zone where you
want information on your document displayed.
5 Click the blank cell and expand it to make it larger.

6 Verify that the Show/Hide Formula Toolbar is displayed.
The Formula Toolbar appears above the document zone.
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7 From the Formula Toolbar, click Formula Editor.
The Formula Editor opens.
8 Click the Functions tab, click - to collapse the All folder, then click + to expand the
Document folder.
9 Double-click DocumentAuthor to insert this function in the Formula text box.
The function selected appears in the Formula text box.
10 Click Validate to check the syntax of the formula.

11 Click OK.
The Formula Editor closes and the new cell in the document zone displays the document's
author.
To display the document name as a variable in the report

Another way to insert document information into a report is to use the document information
cells from the template tab.
Continue with the Quarterly Revenue report.
1 Click the Templates tab in the Report Manager.

2 Click + to expand the Free-Standing Cells folder.
3 Click + to expand Formula and Text Cells.
4 From the Formula and Text Cells options, drag Document name onto the document zone
where you want information on your document displayed.
Synchronizing Data
Creating multiple queries in a document
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Introduct
ion
In this unit, you will learn to project data from several queries into multiple data blocks in a
Web Intelligence document.

 Project data from a single query in different report blocks.
 Project data from more than one query using a single universe.
 Set options to automatically merge dimensions with the same name.
 Project data from queries using multiple universes.
Projecting data from a single query in

different blocks
In this example, you will create a document to analyze the Sales revenue figures for the last
three years and display the Sales revenue per store:
Block 1 will show the sales revenue of the stores in the eFashion database for different
years. Block 2 will show only a subset of this information from the same query.
To project data from a single query in multiple blocks
1 In the Java Report Panel, create a new document using the eFashion universe using the
Store name, Year and Sales revenue objects.
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2 Click Run Query.
The Edit Report view appears and a new vertical table has been created, showing sales
revenue calculated for each store and per year.
3 In the Report Manager Data tab, click the Store name object, hold down the Ctrl key and
click Sales revenue.
4 Drag both objects together and drop them in the space next to the first block of data.
The new report now displays two blocks of data:
· Block 1: Shows sales revenue calculated for each store and per year.
· Block 2: Shows the overall sales revenue calculated per store, all years combined.
Both blocks were built using data from a single query.
5 Save the document to Favorites as Multi Block 1.
Projecting data from multiple queries using

a single universe
Now you are going to add a third block of data to the report. This time you will add a new
query to retrieve new data from the eFashion universe.
Continue working with the same document.

To project data from two queries in multiple blocks
1 Click Edit Query to begin adding the second query.

2 While in Edit Query view, click the Add Query button on the toolbar.
The Universe dialog box displays.
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3 Select eFashion as the data source for the second query.
4 Click OK.
A second Edit Query view appears. Note that at the bottom of the panel, there are two tabs
now: Query 1 and Query 2. You can use these tabs to toggle back and forth between the two
query defintions.
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5 In the Query 2 tab, move the Store name and Margin objects into the Result Objects
pane.
6 Click the Properties tab.
The Query Properties panel for Query 2 displays.
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7 In the Name field, type Margin query and press the Return key to replace the default
name of this query.
8 Click the Query 1 tab.
The Edit Query view switches to the query definition for Query 1.
9 Right-click the Query 1 tab.
10 Select Rename Query from the drop-down menu.
11 In the Name field, type Revenue query and press the Return key to replace the default
name of the first query as well.
Click the drop-down arrow next to the Run Queries button.
The drop-down menu allows you to decide if you want to run only one of the queries in the
document, or all of them at once.
12 Select Margin query from the Run Queries drop-down menu.
The New Query dialog box displays. The options to include the data from the new query in
the report are listed.
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13 In the New Query dialog box, select the Insert a table in the current report option and
click OK.
Web Intelligence executes both queries and projects the new data in a new table in the
report.
Note: The new table may be positioned anywhere in the report, even on top of the existing
tables. Scroll in the report to find where the new table has been projected, then drag and
drop it to the appropriate blank space in the report.
The objects you selected in the Margin query appear in the Edit Report Data tab.
14 Click + next to the Store name object in the Data tab.

The folder expands.
Expanded, the folder displays two Store name objects. This indicates that the same object
has been used in two different queries, once in the Margin query and once in the Revenue
query. The top-level Store name object is identified by a double-cubed, blue dimension icon,
indicating that the two have been automatically merged to create a single- dimension
object.
Now you are ready to project the data from both queries into a single block in the report.
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To project data from a merged dimension into a single block
1 Insert a new report in the document.

2 In the Data tab, click the Store name merged object, hold down the Ctrl key and click the
Sales Revenue and Margin objects.
3 Drag all objects and drop them into the new report.
The aggregate data to calculate sales revenue per store and margin per store has been
retrieved by two different queries, but you are still able to combine both in a single block of
data.
About automatically merged dimensions

In the exercise above, you used the same object in two different queries (Store name). When
you ran the queries, Web Intelligence automatically merged the two instances of the same
object and created a combined object, identified by the double-cubed dimension icon, as
shown here.
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Web Intelligence automatically merges dimensions only when the same object is used in
more than one query in a document. Ideally, a well-designed universe does not have two
different objects of the same name, or of different data types, but if this does occur and you
use them in more than one query in a document, Web Intelligence will automatically merge
them.
If you do not want Web Intelligence to automatically merge multiple instances of the same
object in a single document, you can de-select the Auto-merge dimensions option at the
document level, as described below.
To change the automatic merge dimension setting

1 In the Java Report Panel Edit Report view, right-click anywhere outside of the report blocks in
the document.
2 From the drop-down menu, select Document Properties.
The Document Properties pane opens to the right of the Edit Report view.
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The Auto-merge dimensions option tells Web Intelligence whether it should automatically
merge a dimension when the same object is used in more than one query in a single
document. For the purposes of this exercise, leave the option selected.
If you de-select this option, your change will not be taken into account until the next time
you create a document with two queries that reference the same object.
Projecting data from queries using

multiple universes
Your first report now shows sales revenue and margin for each of the stores in two blocks of
data. Your second report shows data from both queries in a single block, because you have
been able to project the automatically merged dimension into a column in the table.
So far, you have used data only from the eFashion universe to produce the blocks in both
reports. These blocks are views of data providers with data retrieved using the eFashion
universe.
Now you are going to add a second block to Report 2 using data retrieved from a different
universe. This block will show the number of employees that work at each store. This can
help you analyze how a store's staffing level affects the sales revenue.
In this next step, you add a query to the document using the eStaff universe.
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Continue working with the document from the previous exercise.
To display data from two data sources in multiple blocks
1 Make sure the Multi Block 2 document is still open in the Java Report Panel.
2 Click Edit Query to begin adding the second query.
3 While in the Edit Query view, click the Add Query button on the toolbar.
The Universe dialog box displays.
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4 Select eStaff as the data source for the third query.
5 Click OK.
A third Edit Query view appears. Note that at the bottom of the panel, there are three tabs
now: Revenue query, Margin query and Query 3. You can use these tabs to toggle back and
forth between the three query defintions.
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6 In the Query 3 tab, move the Store and Number of Employees objects into the Result
Objects pane.
7 Click the Properties tab.
8 In the Name field, type Employee query and press the Return key to replace the default
name of the first query as well.
9 Click the drop-down arrow next to the Run Queries button.
10 Select Employee query.
11 In the New Query dialog box, this time select the Include the results objects without
generating a table option and click OK.
The Store and Number of Employees objects in the "Employee query", from the eStaff
universe, now appear in the Data tab.
12 In Report 2, click the Store object, hold down the Ctrl key, click the Number of
Employees object, then drag them from the Data tab until they are positioned next to the
existing table in the document zone.
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A new table is inserted next to the existing table and the table from the Employee query is
projected into the new table:

You have now displayed data from two different data sources in two tables side-by-side in
the report. These tables allow you to compare each store's margin with the number of
employees per store.
However, it is clear that both data sources, eFashion and eStaff, contain data concerning the
same stores. In the next exercise, you are going to learn how to show the same data but this
time in a single block of data, or a single table. To do this, you will manually merge two
dimension objects, so that you can project the store names in a single column in the table.
This is known as synchronizing data.
Synchronizing data with merged

dimensions
Introduct
ion
In the previous exercise, we have seen how to project data from multiple queries in a
document, from both single and multiple universes.
So far, we have not tried to merge data from different data sources into a single block (table
or chart). In order to do this, you need to synchronize the data by merging dimensions.
Because the data comes from two different data providers, if you do not synchronize the
dimensions with similar data, Web Intelligence cannot know in what way the data is related
and your report will not show relevant results.
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 Explain why it is important to merge dimensions that retrieve related data.
 Synchronize data by manually merging dimensions.
 List rules that are important to be aware of when merging dimensions.
What happens when dimensions are

not synchronized
In the previous exercise, you retrieved data concerning stores, but you used two dimension
objects that had different names, even though they retrieved similar data:
• the Store name object in the "Revenue query" and the "Margin query", from the
eFashion universe.
• the Store object in the "Employee query", from the eStaff universe.
Because the dimension objects do not have the exact same name, Web Intelligence cannot
automatically merge the dimensions. If you try to combine data from the two objects in a
single block, Web Intelligence will not automatically be able to interpret the relationship
between them.
In this scenario, you will project data from both the eFashion queries and the eStaff query
into a single block, but because you have not defined the relationship between two objects
concerning store names, the data will not be meaningful.
1 Insert a new report in the document.
2 From the Report Manager Data tab, click the merged Store name object, hold down the
Ctrl key then click Sales revenue and Number of Employees objects.
The merged Store name object and the Sales revenue object are from the same universe
and data source (eFashion). The Number of Employees object is from a different universe
and data source (eStaff).
3 Drag the objects and drop them into the blank report space.
4 The data retrieved by these objects is projected automatically into a vertical table. Notice
that every store appears to have 143 employees, yet this is in fact the total number of
employees from all stores:
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The block is projecting data from un-synchronized queries. Although the names of the
eFashion stores are in fact the same, Web Intelligence does not make any assumptions, and
it does not know how to properly interpret the data. Because Store name and Sales revenue
come from the same universe and data source, the sales revenue data is aggregated
correctly. but not the number of employees data.
Synchronizing queries by manually

merging dimensions
You can define the relationship between objects from different universes by manually
merging the dimensions in order to synchronize the data they retrieve. Merging dimensions
manually allows you to identify the objects that retrieve common data in both queries. Once
the merged dimension is in place, you can compare information between the queries more
accurately.
To manually merge dimensions with different names
1 In the Java Report Panel Edit Report view, ensure that the Reporting toolbar is displayed.
2 In the Data tab, click the Store object.
The Store object, which was an object you used in the Employee query, is highlighted:
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Note that all the dimension objects listed in the Data tab are suddenly displayed in italics.
These objects are highlighted in italics because they are all the same type of object as the
Store object: that is, they are all dimension objects. Web Intelligence indicates that you
could choose to merge the selected object with any of the other dimension objects in the
document's queries.
In this case, you want to merge the Store object with the Store name objects used in the
queries you built using the eFashion universe. The names of these objects are slightly
different, but they obviously retrieve the same type of data.
3 Click the Merge dimensions button on the Reporting toolbar.
The Merge Dimensions dialog box displays.
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The dimensions that are available to be merged appear in the top zone of this dialog box,
categorized by the query that they belong to.
Below and to the left is a list of the merged dimensions that already exist in the document:
in this example, we see Store name, which is a dimension that was automatically merged
when we used Store name from eFashion in two different queries.
4 In the Employee query list, click the Store dimension.
5 Click Store name in the Merged dimension list.
6 Click the Values button to view all the values returned by these dimensions.
The Merge dimensions dialog box expands to display all the values returned by these
dimensions. In this example, the values are exactly the same. Depending on the dimension
objects you are merging, the values may not be identical, but they should be of a similar
type.
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7 Click the Merge button.
The Store dimension has been positioned as one of the objects included in the merged Store
name object.
8 Click OK to close the dialog box.
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Now, you see in the Data tab that the merged Store name dimension includes the Store
object from the eStaff universe.
This is known as synchronizing data using merged dimensions.

When you project data into a block using this merged Store name dimension, it retrieves
data from the "Employee query" as well, using the eStaff universe and data source.
When you merge dimensions, Web Intelligence creates a new dimension that retrieves all
the values from all the original dimensions that make up the merged dimension.
The report should appear like this:
Some rules about synchronizing with

merged dimensions
Merging dimensions is the process of creating a link between two queries based on an object
with common values so that in effect the objects become one.
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There are a number of rules to remember when merging dimensions from multiple queries:
∗ You can only link on dimension objects, for example, Store name and Store.
∗ The dimension objects do not have to have the same names.
∗ The dimension objects must have a common data format. For example, if one object is
character-based and the other numeric you cannot link the objects.
∗ Although the actual values do not have to be the same, all data held in a data provider is
case-sensitive, and therefore any common values must be in the same case.
∗ The format of the values must be the same. For example, FY04 and 2004 would be seen
as two separate values. Extra spaces in some values can also mean that the objects
cannot be merged.
∗ Any number of queries can be linked by common dimension objects.
∗ Any number of dimension objects can be merged between two queries.
∗ A measure object can be synchronized successfully only to the lowest level of detail that
is common between the two different data sources. For example, a query with Year can
be linked with another query with Year and Month. However, the synchronized block is
only able to display data at the Year level.
Analyzing Data
Analyzing the data cube

Introduct
ion
Drill mode is a feature that allows you to view data from different levels of detail and zoom
in on different trends. If a Web Intelligence document has been enabled for drill analysis,
users viewing the document either in InfoView or in the Java Report Panel can drill down to
get more details on one of the data objects used in a table or chart.

 Describe how data retrieved by a query is stored in the document data cube.
 Explain scope of analysis.
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About the Web Intelligence
data cube
The data that is returned by a query is stored in the document's data provider. It is
convenient to visualize the returned data as being organized as a cube. In your document,
the data is displayed as a table. The table is a flat two-dimensional view of the data cube.
Each of the columns in a table represents an axis in the cube. You can edit the document by
swapping and manipulating the data within the cube on any axis. When you swap or change
data between different axes, the new result is again projected as a flat table in the resulting
document.
The data stored in the cube allows you to create a report that corresponds to your business
needs without having to send another query to the database.
If you want to add information to the document that is not in the data provider, then you
must add the object to the query and run the query again to get the new information.
What is scope of
analysis?
The scope of analysis for a query is extra data that you can retrieve from the database to
give more details about the data returned by each of the objects in the query. This extra
data does not appear in the initial document results, but it remains available in the data
provider, so that at any time, you can pull this data into the report to allow you to access
more detail. This process of refining the data to lower levels of detail is called drilling down
on an object.
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In a BusinessObjects universe, the scope of analysis corresponds to the hierarchical levels
below the object selected for a query. For example, a scope of analysis of one level down for
the object Year, would include the Quarter object, which appears immediately under Year.
You can set the scope of analysis level when you build a query. It allows objects lower down
the hierarchy to be included in the query, without them actually appearing in the Results
Objects pane. The hierarchies built in a universe allow you to choose your scope of analysis,
and correspondingly the level of drill available.
You can also create a custom scope of analysis by selecting specific dimensions in the Scope
of Analysis pane.
Drilling in the Java Report Panel

Introduct
ion
The term drill mode in Web Intelligence refers to two related activities:
· setting up a Web Intelligence document so that you and other users can analyze the
reports in drill mode
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· viewing the document in drill mode, either in the Web Intelligence Report Panel or in
InfoView, and analyzing the data at different levels of detail
In this unit, you will learn how to create documents so that they are drillable, by yourself or
by other users.

 Build a drillable document in the Java Report Panel.
 Drill down in a data hierarchy while viewing a document in the Java Report Panel.
 Take a snapshot of the drill report.
 Drill in charts.
Building a drillable
document
You can only build drillable documents if your administrator has authorized your user
account to create documents using drill mode.
To build a drillable document

1 Create a new document with the Year, State, and Sales revenue objects.
2 In Edit Query view, click the Show/Hide Scope of Analysis Pane button.
The Scope of Analysis zone opens just below the Query Filters zone in the Edit Query view.
3 Resize the Query Filters pane and the Scope of Analysis pane by clicking and dragging
the borders so that you can view the objects displayed there. By default, the level of the
scope of analysis for this query is set to None.
The Scope of Analysis pane displays the hierarchical dimension objects from the Result
Objects pane.
Note: The objects included in the Scope of Analysis pane are the dimension objects in
your Results Objects pane that are part of a hierarchy in the universe.
4 Click the Hierarchies option located below the Data tab pane.
The Hierarchies view shows all the predefined hierarchies that have been defined in the
eFashion universe.
For example, all the dimension objects that have been linked in the Time period hierarchy
appear under Time period.
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5 Expand the other hierarchy folders to see how the universe objects are organized in
hierarchies.
6 In the Scope of Analysis pane, click the drop-down arrow to display the menu options.
A list of levels appears in the drop-down list.
7 Select Three levels from the Scope of Analysis drop-down list.

All the objects that are three levels down in the Time period hierarchy and in the Store
hierarchy automatically appear in the Scope of Analysis pane.
When you run the query, only the values for Year, State and Sales revenue will appear in the
table that is generated. The remaining objects will appear in the Data tab, but they will not
be projected into the report automatically.
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This means that the document will contain more data than shown in the report. The query
will retrieve values for all the objects in the Scope of Analysis pane. That data will be
available for your analysis, though it is not displayed immediately in the table.
8 Click Run Query.
The Edit Report view opens and displays the values retrieved in a vertical table.
Note: The objects listed in the document's Data tab include all objects referenced by
the level chosen for the scope of analysis. The values returned by those objects are not yet
projected in the report but are available in the document for drill down.
Tip: In most circumstances, it's more effective to use a crosstab table to display information for
drilling.
9 Click outside the table to highlight it, right-click the highlighted gray border around the table
and select Turn To from the shortcut menu.
10 Select Crosstab from the Tables tab of the Turn To box.
11 Click OK.
The block has been changed to a Crosstab table.
12 Save the document to your Favorites as Drill Report.
Drilling down the data in a

hierarchy
To activate drill mode
Continue from the previous exercise.
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1 Click the Drill button on the Report toolbar.
All the values in the cells appear underlined with hypertext links. These hypertext links allow
you to drill down the hierarchies to see data at a more detailed level.
2 Position your mouse pointer over the California cell in the row headers.
A tooltip appears below the East hypertext link displaying the next level of detail in this
hierarchy of data.
3 Click the cell to drill down to the next level of data.

The table is refreshed to display rows of data applicable only to the cell selected and at the
next level of the hierarchy, City.
Note: An arrow displays next to the drilled-down data. To drill back up, simply click on
the arrows beside each cell.
As you are drilling, a new toolbar appears at the top of the document, called the Drill
Toolbar. This toolbar displays the values you have selected to drill down into more detail. In
the example below, the Drill toolbar reminds that you have drilled down on California, so the
data you are viewing refers to the eFashion stores in California.
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You are now going to use the Drill Toolbar to drill across at the same level of detail, that is,
to other regions in the Store hierarchy.
To drill across data in a hierarchy
1 Click the drop-down arrow in the drill toolbar beside California to view the other values you
can drill across to.
2 From the drop-down list, select Texas as the value that you would like to drill across to.
The crosstab displays data concerning the cities in the state of Texas.
To drill down two hierarchies at once

1 Position your cursor over the Sales revenue amount for Dallas in 2001.
A tooltip, Drill down to Store name/Quarter, appears to indicate that by clicking in the body
of the table, you drill down to both the Store name level and the Quarter level in both
hierarchies at once.
2 Click the Dallas 2001 Sales Revenue cell in the body of the crosstab to drill down both
the Store and Time period hierarchies contained in the report.
The Sales revenue for the eFashion Dallas store is displayed at the Quarter level.
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To edit the Scope of Analysis
When you are drilling on a hierarchy, you may discover that you need to drill to a lower level
than you had previously allowed for when setting the scope of analysis.
· Edit the scope of analysis by returning to the Edit Query view and changing the
level of detail that you defined in the Scope of Analysis pane.
Taking a snapshot of the

drill report
You can save a version of your drilled results by taking a snapshot of the report. This is
useful if you want to isolate certain drilled results, but continue working in drill mode.
When you take a snapshot, Web Intelligence inserts a new report after your last report in the
document. You can continue working in your current report, but can switch to the snapshot
by clicking the new report tab.
To take a snapshot of your analysis
1 Click the Take Snapshot of Drilled Report button on the Report toolbar.
A copy of the report is inserted in the document.
Note: An additional report tab displays at the bottom of the report.
2 Click the new Report 1 (1) report tab to view the copied report.
A copy of the table is inserted in the snapshot report but without the drillable hyperlinks.
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3 Save the document within your Favorites as Drill down.
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Drilling in
charts
You can drill in charts as well as in tables and crosstabs. In this section, you are going to
work with drill mode in a pie chart that shows Quantities sold for the Store hierarchy.
To drill in charts
1 Create a new query with the State and Quantity sold objects .
2 Click the Show/Hide Scope of Analysis Pane button on the toolbar.
3 In the Scope of Analysis pane, click the drop-down arrow to display the menu options.
A list of levels appears in the drop-down list.
4 Select Two levels from the drop-down list.

Note: Resize the Query Filters and Scope of Analysis pane as needed to display all
objects in these panes.
5 Click Run Query.
6 Click the gray border around the table to select it.
7 Right-click the highlighted table.
8 Select Turn to from the shortcut menu.
The Turn To box displays.
9 Select a Pie chart and click OK.
The table displays as a Pie chart block.
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Note: The data displayed in the pie chart concerns quantities sold per State, but you
can see from the Report Manager Data tab that two additional levels of objects in the Store
hierarchy are available in the document.
10 From the Properties tab of the Report Manager, click + to expand the Data section.
11 Click + to expand the Values section.
12 In the Show data zone, select the Yes check box.
The data values are displayed and identify each section in the pie chart. Now you are going
to drill down on the Store hierarchy, from State to City, to Store name.
13 Click Drill on the Reporting toolbar.
The Drill Toolbar is displayed just above the document zone. As we saw in the previous
exercise, the filters drop-down list appear in this area as you drill, so that you can drill across
to other values at the same level of detail.
14 Position your mouse pointer over the sections of the pie chart.
A tooltip appears indicating that you can drill down to the next level of detail.
15 Click the Texas section in the pie chart to drill down to the City level.
The chart is refreshed and displays the drilled-down data.
A filter drop-down list appears above the chart, which allows you to drill across to see other
data.
16 Click the arrow next to this drop-down list and select California from the list.
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The chart is refreshed and now breaks down the pie sections to display the new values
selected.
Tip: Drilling down, across and up can also be accomplished from a shortcut menu that displays
when right-clicking on drillable data.
17 Save the document within your Favorites as Chart Drill down.
Setting Web Intelligence drill options
Introduct
ion
Before you begin a drill session, you specify how reports will change each time you drill by
setting your drill options in InfoView or at the document level. This unit tells you:
• about the drill options available to you
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• how to select the drill options appropriate for your analysis
When you modify your drill options, the modifications are implemented the next time you
start drill mode.

 Set general drill options in InfoView preferences.
 Define query drill mode.
 Set a Web Intelligence document to query drill mode in the Java Report Panel.
Setting general drill options in

InfoView
InfoView Preferences provide a number of settings that allow you to determine how drill
mode is activated when you view Web Intelligence documents.
These settings are available from the Web Intelligence Document page in InfoView
Preferences.
To set general drill options in InfoView Preferences

1 From the InfoView Home page, click Preferences to view the InfoView Preferences pages.
The General Preferences page opens.
2 Click Web Intelligence Document to open the Preferences tab for Web Intelligence.
3 The Web Intelligence Document preferences page appears:
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4 Set drill preferences using the following table as guidelines:
Option Description
Select this option if you want InfoView to create a duplicate of the current
Start drill on a
report when you launch drill mode.
duplicate
You drill on the duplicate report. When you end drill mode, both the original
report
report and the drilled report remain in the document.
Start drill on Select this option if you want the current report to become drillable when
the existing you launch drill mode.
report When you end drill mode, the report displays the drilled values.
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When you drill in a Web Intelligence report, you may want to drill to higher-
or lower-level information that is not included in the query's scope of
analysis. Select this option if you want Web Intelligence to prompt you with
Prompt if drill
a message every time a new query is necessary.
requires
The prompt message asks you to decide whether you want to run the
additional data
additional query or not. In addition, the prompt allows you to apply filters to
the extra dimensions you include in the new query. This means you can
restrict the size of the query to just the data necessary for your analysis.
Select this option if you want Web Intelligence to synchronize drilling across
all the blocks in a report. The next dimension in the drill path replaces the
Synchronize
previous dimension in all blocks of the report, not just the block you have
drill on report
selected.
blocks
If you do not select this option when drilling in a report, the drill operation is
applied only in the selected block of the report.
Select this option if you do not want to display the Drill toolbar as you drill.
By default, the Drill toolbar appears at the top of the drilled report. It
displays the value on which you drilled, and allows you to select other
Hide drill bar values in order to filter the results differently.
For example, if you drill down on the year 2003, the value 2003 will appear
in the Drill toolbar and the values displayed in the report block will be Q1,
Q2, Q3 and Q4 for 2003.
5 Click OK to accept the new settings.

6 Return to the InfoView Home page.
The next time you create a Web Intelligence document and define the scope of analysis for
drilling, the settings you defined in the InfoView Preferences page will apply, regardless of
the Web Intelligence report panel you have chosen to use for creating documents.
Using query
drill
When you create, edit or view a Web Intelligence document, you can set Web Intelligence to
drill in "query drill" mode, which behaves differently from the standard drill mode described
so far in this lesson.
When you activate query drill, Web Intelligence drills by modifying the underlying query
(adding and removing dimensions and query filters) in addition to applying drill filters.
When can you use query drill?
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You use query drill when your report contains aggregate measures calculated at the
database level. It is designed in particular to provide a drill mode adapted to databases
which contain aggregate functions that Web Intelligence either does not support, or cannot
calculate accurately at the report level during a drill session.
The kinds of aggregate functions that are candidates for drilling in query drill mode are:
percentages, distinct counts, ranks, standard deviations and variances, running aggregates,
lead and lag functions. Because query drill modifies the query at each drill operation, it
ensures that these aggregates are recalculated by the server each time you drill.
Query drill is also useful for reducing the amount of data that Web Intelligence must store
locally during a drill session. Because query drill reduces the scope of analysis when you drill
up, Web Intelligence is able to purge unnecessary data.
To set query drill in the Java Report Panel
1 Create a new document or edit an existing document in the Java Report Panel.
2 Right-click the report tab at the bottom of the Edit Report view and select Document
Properties from the drop-down menu.
The Document Properties pane appears on the right side of the Edit Report view.
3 In the Document Options zone, select the Use query drill option.
4 Save the document as Query drill.
The next time you or another users switches to drill mode in this document, query drill will
be activated.
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Sharing Web Intelligence Documents
Sharing documents
Introduct
ion
If you are sharing documents with InfoView users, you can send your documents directly to
their InfoView Inbox folder, or you can choose to save them as public documents in the
corporate repository, if your BusinessObjects Enterprise administrator as authorized you to
do so.
Business Objects Enterprise stores sent and public documents allowing others to retrieve
them.
If your colleagues are not InfoView users, you can save your reports in Microsoft Excel or
Adobe PDF so that they can easily view and print them using Excel or Adobe Acrobat
Reader.
 Send documents to other InfoView users.
 Save a document as a public document.
 Save a document in PDF or Excel spreadsheet format.
 Add discussions to a document.
 Add a document from your computer.
Sharing documents with

InfoView users
To share documents with other InfoView users, you can either send a document to a user's
Inbox, or you can save it as a public document, if you are authorized to do so.
Sending a document to users

Sending documents is the ideal method for communicating information to individual users
and groups of users. The documents are sent through the corporate repository, and users
can then retrieve the document from their InfoView Inbox.
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Note: You can only send documents to users that have been set up in the system by
the administrator.
Saving a public document

When you save a document to a public folder or category, you are making it available to a
wide audience of users. When given the appropriate access rights, your colleagues can then
refresh or modify the document and save it again, making it easy to collaborate with one
another.
Public documents remain in the repository until removed by the BusinessObjects Enterprise
administrator. This is an ideal method for communicating information across an organization
or enterprise.
Note: You can only save documents to public folders if you have been authorized to
do so by the administrator.
To send a document to another InfoView user
1 From the Navigation Panel, click + to expand Public Folders.
2 Click the Report Samples > General Business folder.
The available objects display in the Workspace.
3 Select the check box before World Sales Report.
4 Click the Send drop-down button on the Navigation Bar to activate the menu.
The available send options display on the menu. You can send documents to another user's
InfoView Inbox, a user's email, and to an FTP or File location.
5 Select To BusinessObjects Inbox from the drop-down menu.
Note: Sending a document to a user's BusinessObjects Inbox will send the document
to that user's Inbox folder, located under My Folders in InfoView. To send documents to
another user's email address, select To Email.
6 From the Destination drop-down list, verify that Inbox is selected.
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7 Clear the Use the Job Server's defaults check box to view the full page and to
select specific users or groups whom you want to receive the document.
The full Send Document to Destination page displays.
8 From the Choose drop-down list, select Users.
If there are many users to choose from, you can search for the user or group name.
9 For this exercise, you will send the document to the Administrator user name. Type
"A" in the Look For field.
10 Click Search.
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The Available Recipients list is populated with any user names that begin with the letter A, in
this case the Administrator.
11 Select Administrator from the list and click the > button to add the user name to
the Selected Recipients list.
12 Select the Automatically generated option as the Target Name.
The file name of the document is automatically generated, unless you specify otherwise.
Note: The Specific name option allows you to specify a different name for the object
that you are sending. When you specify a target name for the document, you must also add
the File Extension placeholder at the end otherwise the file name will have no extension and
will not be sent successfully.
13 Select Copy from the Send As options.
The file can be sent as either a copy or as a shortcut.
14 Click Submit.
The document has been sent to the designated user's Inbox. To verify the procedure, you
will log off and then log back onto InfoView, and then check your Inbox.
15 Click the Log off button on the Navigation Bar.
The Log On page displays.
16 Enter your user name (Administrator) and password (leave blank) to log back onto
InfoView.
17 From the InfoView Navigation Panel, open your Inbox folder.
The copy of the World Sales Report document that was sent to the Administrator user name
is located in the Inbox.
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Note: You may need to click the Refresh button to see the new document.
18 Click on the document name from your Inbox to open any documents sent to you by
another user.
To send a document to email
1 Select the check box before the World Sales Report located in the Public Folders
> Report Samples > General Business folder.
2 Click the Send drop-down button to activate the menu.
3 Click To Email... from the list.
4 Clear the Use the Job Server's defaults check box to view the full page.
The Send page displays.
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Note: You can select the Destination as default if your system administrator has set a
default email recipient for you to send your documents. Otherwise you can send the
document to a specific email address.
5 Type "Administrator@businessobjects.com" in the From field.
6 Type "Bob@company.com" in the To field.
7 Click the Add placeholder... drop-down button to activate the menu.
8 Click Title from the list.
Note: A placeholder is used to add information specific to the report. In this example,
when Bob receives the email, the title of the document appears in the subject line.
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9 Type "Here's the report you requested" in the Message field.
10 Select the Add attachment check box.
Note: If you just wanted to send an email about this document and not include the
document as an attachment, you would deselect this box.
11 Click the Submit button to send the email.
Note: Unless the email server portion has been configured by the administrator the
email will not be successfully sent.
Saving documents for sharing with others
When you save your document as a public document, you are making it available to a wide
audience of users. Your colleagues can then refresh or modify the document and save it
again, making it easy to collaborate with one another. Public documents are saved to either
a public or private folder and can also be added to a category.
Note: You can only save documents to public folders if you have been authorized to
do so by the administrator.
Public documents remain in the repository until the BusinessObjects Enterprise

administrator removes them. This is an ideal method for communicating information across
an organization or enterprise.
Public documents are accessible to groups of users across your organization.
To save as a public document

1 Click + to expand Public Folders.
2 Open the Web Intelligence Sample document from the Web Intelligence
Samples folder.
3 Click Save as from the Document menu.
The Save Document window opens.
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4 Enter My Public Document as the title.
5 Click on the + to expand Public Folders.
6 Select the Report Samples public folder as the publish location.
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7 Click OK.
To view a public document

1 Click on the + to expand Public Folders.
2 Click on Report Samples.
The documents saved to Report Samples display including My Public Document.
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Sharing beyond Web Intelligence
To share with colleagues who are not Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, or Crystal
Reports users, you can save your reports in Adobe PDF or Microsoft Excel format. That way,
you and your colleagues can easily view and print them using Adobe Acrobat Reader or
Excel.
When you save a document in PDF format, the page layout and formatting of the Web
Intelligence document is retained in the PDF file.
To save a document in other formats from InfoView

2 Open Web Intelligence Sample from the Web Intelligence Samples folder.
3 Click Save to my computer as > PDF from the Document menu.
The File Download window opens:
4 Click Save.
The Save As window appears:
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5 Specify the file location and click Save.
The document is saved to your local computer. You can now browse and open the PDF
document.
Adding discussions to a
document
The Discussions feature enables you to create messages on reports, hyperlinks, programs,
and other objects in a folder.
You must have the appropriate rights for the object to be able to view and create messages.
If you are not sure that you have the appropriate rights, contact your Enterprise
administrator.
Using the Discussions Panel in a document, you can:
 Create new messages
 Reply to group or individual messages
 Edit messages
 Tag messages with high or low priority
 Delete messages
To add a discussion to a document

2 Open the Web Intelligence Sample document in the Web Intelligence Samples
folder.
The latest instance of the document opens.
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3 Click the Show Discussions Panel arrow in the Discussions Panel at the bottom of
the window to make it visible.
The Discussions Panel opens to display the document's discussion messages and threads.
You can now view, add or delete discussion threads.
The discussion window allows users to share communication about a particular report. Once
the discussion window is open, there are a variety of options. The common options are listed
below.
Button Description
Post a new message to the discussion.
Reply to all users regarding an existing

posting.
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Reply only to the user that posted the thread.
Delete a thread from the discussion.
Mark thread as High Importance.
Mark thread as Low Importance.
4 Click New Message on the Discussion Panel toolbar.
5 Type "Tom needs access to this document" in the Message field.
6 Click High Importance to mark this message as urgent.
7 Click Post.
8 Click Hide the Discussions Panel to close the Discussions Panel.
9 Click Expand to re-open the Discussions Panel.
The message that you posted displays beneath the document name. The message is bold
because it has not been read yet.
10 Click the Note by Administrator message from the list.
The message displays in the Discussions Panel.
11 Click Reply to Sender on the Discussions Panel toolbar.
12 Type "Tom has been given access to the document." in the Message field.
13 Click Post.
Your reply is posted to the discussion thread.
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14 Select the reply message in the thread and click the Delete button on the
Discussions Panel toolbar.
A deletion confirmation box displays.
15 Click OK.
Note: You can only edit and delete messages that you have created. You cannot
delete a message if other notes are below it in the discussion thread.
Adding a document from your

computer
You can add a document from your computer to InfoView and store it in a category or folder.
To add a document from your computer

1 Click the New drop-down button to activate the menu.
2 Select Document from local computer from the list.
3 Click Adobe Acrobat as the type of document to add.
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The Add a document from your local computer page displays.
4 Type "Web Intelligence Sample PDF" in the Title field.
5 Type "Sales report" in the Description field.
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6 Type "Sales" in the Keywords field.
7 Click the Browse button to locate the filename of the document on your local
computer.
8 Select Web Intelligence Sample from the location you previously saved the PDF.
9 Click Open.
10 From the Location list of folders, select Sales Figures as the location to store the
document in InfoView.
11 Click OK.
The document has been added to InfoView and stored in the Sales Reports folder.
Scheduling a Web Intelligence document
Introduct
ion
You can use InfoView to schedule a document so that it is refreshed automatically at

specified times.
 View a document's history in InfoView.
 Schedule a document.
Viewing the document

history
BusinessObjects Enterprise saves a history of document instances. This history list is

arranged chronologically and contains information such as:
∗ instance time
∗ run by
∗ parameters
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∗ format
∗ status
To view the history of a document

1 Navigate to the Web Intelligence Sample document located in your Public
Folders.
2 Click the History link for the object located below the document name.
The History page appears, showing the number of times this document has been scheduled
and allowing you to modify the scheduling that has been applied, by deleting, pausing,
resuming specific instances or all instances at once.
3 Click the Show instances owned by me check box to change the default setting
and see all instances of this document.
The History page is refreshed and now shows instances of this document, regardless of who
scheduled them.
Scheduling documents in
InfoView
Scheduling a document lets you run it automatically at specified times. When a scheduled
document runs successfully, an instance is created. An instance is a version of the object
containing the data available at the time it was run. Therefore, instances created later
contain more recent data.
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You can see a list of instances by looking at a document's history, and you can click the link
to any historical instance. If you have the rights to view objects on demand, you can view
and refresh any instance to retrieve the latest data from the database.
By scheduling and viewing instances, you can ensure you have the latest information
available for viewing, printing, and distributing. For example, you can schedule a report
object (document) to run every night so it's available for you first thing in the morning.
Note: Before scheduling objects, check your time zone setting on the Preferences
page in BusinessObjects Enterprise. The default time zone is local to the web server that is
running BusinessObjects Enterprise.
To schedule a document
1 Navigate to the Web Intelligence Sample document located in your Public
Folders.
2 Click the Schedule link for the object located below the document name.
The Schedule page appears. Click + next to each group of options in this page, to view the
page as shown below.
3 Select Now from the When: Run Object: drop-down list.
4 Leave the remaining options at their default values.
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Note: Based on your user access rights, you can specify the Destination, Format,
Server Group, and Caching options when scheduling a document.
5 Click Schedule.
The Schedule page for the document displays.
6 Click Refresh.
The document has been scheduled and run; a new instance has been added to the
document history.
Working in Interactive View
Modifying a document interactively
Introduct
ion
When you select Interactive as the viewing option for Web Intelligence documents, you can
perform a number of actions on documents in InfoView without having to actually edit the
document in the Web Intelligence report panel itself.
Note: The availability to use this feature depends on how InfoView was installed and
what user rights you have. Ask your administrator if you have the rights to this feature.
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This unit describes the features that are available in Interactive View mode for organizing
and formatting data displayed in a Web Intelligence document.
 Describe the reporting features you can use in Interactive View mode.
 Display the Interactive View mode toolbars.
 Describe each of the Interactive View Left Panel panes.
 Change how data is displayed using Interactive View mode.
What can you do in Interactive

view mode?
When you view a Web Intelligence document in Interactive View mode, you can use many
reporting features to analyze the information displayed in the document. You also have
access to many tools that allow you to modify how the data is displayed in the document.
This includes the ability to:
∗ Add and remove the objects that are used in the report.
∗ Filter data to limit the data shown in the report.
∗ Apply alerters to highlight important information
∗ Sort values to change the order of the information shown in the report.
∗ Create your own custom sorts to reorder the values in a specific manner.
∗ Organize blocks of data into sections.
∗ Insert column and rows of data in tables.
∗ Add predefined calculations on data, such as adding up sums, counting totals, and
calculating averages and percentages.
∗ Create complex calculations using a Formula Editor, and save your formulas as
variables in the document
∗ Analyze data in deeper levels of detail if the document has been set up for drill
analysis.
∗ Format a document to your specific requirements.
These reporting activities and others were presented in detail in earlier lessons of the
course, as you learned to create new Web Intelligence documents using the Java Report
Panel. In the remainder of this lesson, you will have a brief introduction to the same
reporting features, which you can use as you view a document in InfoView, with Interactive
View mode.
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Setting view preferences to
Interactive
If your administrator has authorized you to use this option, you can view Web Intelligence
documents in Interactive HTML mode.
Interactive View mode allows you to perform a number of actions on documents in InfoView
without having to actually edit the document in the Web Intelligence report panel itself.
To change the view preference to Interactive

1 From the InfoView Home page, click Preferences to view the Preferences Pages.
The General Preferences Page opens.
2 Click Web Intelligence Document Preferences to open the Preferences tab for
Web Intelligence.
3 Select Interactive as the view format.
Note: Report panel and drill options will be reviewed later in the course.
4 Click Apply.
The settings you selected are saved.
In the remainder of this lesson, we will explore the reporting features that are available in
Interactive View mode.
Using the Interactive Viewing menus,

toolbars and Left panes
In Interactive View mode, the menus, toolbars and panes available in the Workspace Panel
where you view the Web Intelligence document are greatly expanded. In this exercise, we
will explore the tools available to you for analyzing and modifying the information you see in
the document.
To display the Interactive View menus and toolbars

1 Select the Web Intelligence Sample document from Public Folders > Web
Intelligence Samples.
The document opens in Interactive format in the InfoView window:
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2 Click the Document drop-down arrow on the document toolbar to view the menu.
A new option appears on the menu.
3 Click Properties on the drop-down menu.
The Document Properties dialog box appears.
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This dialog box displays information about the document, such as the name of the author,
when the document was last refreshed, and the document's regional locale. It also allows
you to change certain document settings, which we will review in a later lesson.
4 Click OK to close the Document Properties dialog box.
5 Click the View drop-down arrow on the document toolbar.
The View menu has two new options: Toolbars and Preferences.
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The Toolbars option opens a submenu that allows you to display or hide any of the three
toolbars available in Interactive View mode:
· Formatting
· Report
· Formula
6 Select all three toolbars so that they are displayed below the Document menu.
As you will see later in the lesson, the buttons available to you on these three toolbars
provide many features for organizing and analyzing the information in a Web Intelligence
document, as well as for enhancing the presentation of the reports in the document.
7 Click the View menu and select the Left panel option.
The Left panel opens in the InfoView Workspace.
8 Click the Left panel drop-down arrow to view the new panels available to you in
Interactive View mode.
In Interactive View mode, the Left panel still includes the:
· Navigation Map pane
· User Prompt Input pane
· Find pane
However, you now have access to four other panes as well:
· Document Summary pane
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· Data Summary pane
· Chart and Table Types pane
· Document Structure and Filters pane
These panes are described in the next steps.
9 In the Left pane drop-down list, click Document Summary.
The Document Summary pane displays.
The Document Summary pane lists information concerning the document, such as the
author name, when the document was created, when it was last refreshed.
10 In the Left pane drop-down list, click Data Summary.
The Data Summary pane displays.
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The Data Summary pane lists information concerning the query that was used to retrieve
the data in the document. It shows the name of the universe and the objects that make up
the query definition, as well as the number of rows that were returned by the query.
11 In the Left pane drop-down list, click Chart and Table Types.
The Chart and Table Types pane displays.
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The Chart and Table Types pane allows you to view all the templates available to you in
Interactive View mode, for modifying the way the data in the document is currently
presented. All the templates available for designing reports in the Java Report Panel are also
available to you in Interactive View mode.
Using either drag and drop, or by clicking the Insert and Turn To buttons available in the
Chart and Table Types pane, you can very quickly and easily transform a table or chart in
the document to another format, or insert a new block.
12 In the Left pane drop-down list, click Available Objects.
The Available Objects pane displays.
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The Available Objects pane lists all the objects that have been used in the document's query
to retrieve the data available in the document. You can use drag and drop to move objects
in and out of the blocks of data, or even to create new blocks of data.
13 In the Left pane drop-down list, click Document Structure and Filters.
The Document Structure and Filters pane displays.
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The Document Structure and Filters pane allows you to view at a glance all the elements
that make up this document, such as the sections, report blocks, headers and footers, and
so on. In this pane, you can click a document element and move it to another position in the
document, just by moving it up or down in the pane.
Modifying the document with

Interactive View
In the following exercise you will view, navigate and modify a Web Intelligence report using
the Interactive menus, toolbars and Left panes.
To modify data using Interactive View mode

1 In the Web Intelligence Sample document, select the Analysis Workspace
report from the report map.
The document displays the Analysis Workspace report.
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2 Right-click on the Customer Name column in the report.
The Interactive Reporting menu appears which allows you to perform a number of actions.
3 From the shortcut menu, click Insert > New Column > Right to add a blank
column to the report.
4 Position your cursor over the right border of the new column until the cursor turns
to a crosshair, then press the mouse button and drag to expand the width of the new
column.
5 Click on the down arrow next to Navigation Map and select Available Objects.
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6 Click and drag the City object to the newly inserted column.
The report is updated with a new column of data, showing the City for each of the
Customers.
7 Right-click on the City column in the report.
8 From the shortcut menu, click Quick Filter.
The Quick Filter window appears.
9 Double-click on London and Paris.
10 Click OK to save the filter.
The report is now filtered to show data for only London and Paris.
11 Right-click on the Order Amount column.
12 From the shortcut menu click Calculation > Sum.
A total row is inserted showing the Sum of Order Amount. Your report should look similar to
the partial report below.
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13 Right-click on the City column and select Remove > Column from the shortcut menu.
The City column is removed from the table.
To turn the table into a chart
Continue working with the Web Intelligence Sample document in Interactive view format.
1 Click on the down arrow next to Available Objects in the Document Navigation
pane.
2 Select Chart and Table Types from the drop-down list.
Note: If the Left Pane is not visible click on the arrow to show the pane.
3 Click + to expand Bar Charts.
4 Click and drag Vertical Grouped to the table in the document pane.
The table is converted into a vertical grouped bar chart.
Note: Right-clicking in a cell or column and selecting Format from the shortcut menu
displays a formatting box. From this box you can format the properties of the cell, column,
report, or chart; including the layout, alignment, fonts and borders.
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5 Close the report by clicking the X in the top-right corner. Do not save the changes.
Using formulas and variables in InfoView with

Interactive view
Introduct
ion
You can add custom calculations to Web Intelligence documents when you are viewing them
in InfoView, using Interactive view mode. In the remainder of this lesson, you will learn to
create typical formulas as you view a document in InfoView, and then save the formula as a
variable.

 Create a formula in InfoView using Interactive view mode.
 Save the formula as a variable in Interactive view mode.
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Creating a formula in InfoView with
Interactive view
In this scenario, you have created a report that shows sales revenue and quantity sold per
state. You want to add the average revenue per sale to the report.
We will create a formula to divide the revenue by the number of items sold in order to show
the revenue per number sold.
1 In the Java Report Panel, create a new document using the eFashion universe.
2 Select the State, Sales revenue and Quantity sold objects and run the query.
3 Save the document in your Favorites folder and name it Formulas in InfoView.
4 Go to your Favorites folder and open this document in InfoView.
5 From InfoView, click the View>Toolbars menu, and display both the Report and Formula
toolbars.
6 Click any data cell in the Quantity sold column to highlight it.
7 On the Report toolbar, click Insert > New column > Right to insert a new column in the
table.
A new column is inserted to the right of the table you just created.
8 Click the empty column header to select it.

9 Type ="Revenue per sale" in the Formula toolbar (including the quotes).
10 Click Validate formula to validate the syntax.
The column header displays the text you just typed.
11 Click in any data column in the new column to highlight it.
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12 On the Formula toolbar, click the Formula Editor button.
13 Using the objects, functions and operators available in the Formula Editor, create the
following formula:
=[Sales revenue]/[Quantity sold]
as shown below:
14 Click Validate.
A message appears indicating the formula syntax is correct.
15 Click OK to close the message box.

16 Click OK to close the Formula Editor.
The column is updated with the calculated data concerning revenue per sale.
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17 Save the document to your Favorites folder as Revenue per sale.
Saving the formula as a variable

in InfoView
Now we will save this formula as a variable in the document.
Continue working in InfoView with the Revenue per sale document.
1 On the Formula toolbar, click the Create a variable button.

The Create New Variable dialog box appears.
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2 In the Name field, type Revenue per Sale.
3 Define the qualification as a Measure.
4 Verify that the formula is the one you just created.
5 Click OK.
6 In the Left pane drop-down list, select the Available Objects tab.
7 Click + to expand the Variables folder.
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The new variable, Revenue per sale, now appears in the list of available variables and you
can use it in any new block that you create in the document
Analyzing in Drill mode in InfoView
Introduct
ion
In this section, you will see how you can analyze data in Web Intelligence documents using
drill mode in InfoView, as long as the document you are viewing has been built as a drillable
document.
It is important to know that there are probably many users in your organization who are
authorized to use only InfoView. They access documents that you, as a report builder, have
published to the corporate repository. If you publish a drillable document as a Corporate
Document, these users can use the same drill feature to analyze the data in many levels of
detail, and gain greater insight into the information you are trying to share.
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Note: Drill mode can be activated while viewing a Web Intelligence document in
InfoView, in either standard HTML or Interactive View mode.
 Drill in a data hierarchy in InfoView.
 Define query drill mode.
 Set a Web Intelligence document to query drill mode in the Java Report Panel.
Drilling in a data
hierarchy
Drilling is possible because of the hierarchical relationship of the data in a universe.

Hierarchies are created in a universe by the universe designer. In the eFashion universe, for
example, the Store class is a hierarchy of objects that allow you to break down the Store
data from the highest level, State, to the lowest level, Store name.
Because this hierarchical relationship has been set up, you can drill down the report for
more detail, or drill across the report to compare detail.
To view a drillable document in InfoView
1 Open the Web Intelligence Sample document from your Public Folders.
The document opens in the InfoView window.
2 Click on the Start drill mode button on the far right side of the Standard toolbar to
put the document in drill mode.
A drill toolbar appears and drillable data items display as hyperlinks in the block. You can
use these hypertext links in the cells to drill down, up and across.
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Note: Additional buttons appear in the window that allow you to take a snapshot of the
report or add a filter to view the level of detail available in each hierarchy.
3 Position your cursor over Down Under Bikes in the Customer Name column.
A tooltip displays "Drill down to City".
4 Click Down Under Bikes.
Data for the cities that have Down Under Bikes display in the document. You have drilled
down to a lower level of detail in the hierarchy.
5 Click Sydney to drill down to Region.
The Region data for Sydney displays in the document.
6 Using the Analysis context toolbar, click the drop-down arrow by Down Under Bikes
to drill across to Canberra Bikes.
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The data changes to display the Region data for Canberra Bikes.
7 Click the Snapshot icon on the document toolbar to take a picture of your analysis.
A copy of your analysis is inserted into a new report tab.
Note: Right-clicking data will display a shortcut menu from which you can also drill
down, up, or across the data. The arrows that display in column headings allow you to drill
back up the data levels.
8 Close the report by clicking the X in the top right corner. Do not save the changes.
Using query
drill
When you create, edit or view a Web Intelligence document, you can set Web Intelligence to
drill in "query drill" mode, which behaves differently from the standard drill mode described
so far in this lesson.
When you activate query drill, Web Intelligence drills by modifying the underlying query
(adding and removing dimensions and query filters) in addition to applying drill filters.
When can you use query drill?

You use query drill when your report contains aggregate measures calculated at the
database level. It is designed in particular to provide a drill mode adapted to databases
which contain aggregate functions that Web Intelligence either does not support, or cannot
calculate accurately at the report level during a drill session.
The kinds of aggregate functions that are candidates for drilling in query drill mode are:
percentages, distinct counts, ranks, standard deviations and variances, running aggregates,
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lead and lag functions. Because query drill modifies the query at each drill operation, it
ensures that these aggregates are recalculated by the server each time you drill.
Query drill is also useful for reducing the amount of data that Web Intelligence must store
locally during a drill session. Because query drill reduces the scope of analysis when you drill
up, Web Intelligence is able to purge unnecessary data.
To set query dill in InfoView
1 Open a Web Intelligence document in InfoView.
2 Click the Document menu and select Properties.
The Document Properties pane displays
3 Click the Use query drill option.
4 Click OK and close the document.
The next time you or another user open this document in InfoView and switch to drill mode,
the query drill option is activated.

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Introducing Web Intelligence

Getting Started with InfoView

Managing documents in InfoView

After completing this unit you will be able to:

Managing folders and

Creating a new folder

To create new folders

1. In the Navigation Panel, click + to expand My Folders.

Copying and moving documents and

1. In the Navigation Panel, click + to expand the Public Folders.

13. Click OK.

Deleting documents and folders

To delete documents and folders

1. In the Navigation Panel, click + to expand your Favorites.

To create a personal document category

2. Select Personal Categories as the location for your new subcategory.

Saving documents to personal folders

To save a Web Intelligence document in a personal category

Searching for documents

1. On the Navigation Bar, type "Sales" in the Search Title field.

2. Click the Execute search button.

2. Select the Public Folder checkbox to search by location.

Filtering documents in a list

To filter documents in a list

Creating a shortcut to a document

1. Click + to expand Public Folders.

4. Select Add Shortcuts to a new folder from the menu.

2. Click Hyperlink from the list.

Viewing a Web Intelligence document in

After completing this unit you will be able to:

Viewing Web Intelligence

To open a Web Intelligence document

The Left panel is composed of the:

You can refresh documents in the following ways:

To refresh a document manually

1 Continue viewing the Web Intelligence Sample document.

The data is updated in the document.

To refresh a document every time it is opened

Printing a Web Intelligence

Closing a Web Intelligence

Setting InfoView Preferences

After completing this unit you will be able to:

Setting general InfoView

To set general InfoView preferences

1. Click the Preferences button on the Navigation Bar.

About document preferences

Setting Web Intelligence

About Web Intelligence viewing settings

To define your locale format settings

About Web Intelligence reporting and

To change your password

3. Type your current password in the Old Password text box.

Creating an InfoView dashboard with My

After completing this unit you will be able to:

1. Click My InfoView on the Navigation Bar.

Split the dashboard vertically.

Split the dashboard horizontally.

Open the Dashboard Properties box.

To set My InfoView as the initial view

1. In the toolbar in the InfoView window, click Preferences.

Getting new data with Web Intelligence

Creating a new document involves two steps:

After completing this unit you will be able to: