Setting Your Preferences

Business Objects can be personalized to help you create shortcut and localize the application to your needs.
You can have the Documents tab open directly to a specific folder, changes the number of objects displayed
on the screen, and set drilling preferences.

There are a number of preferences you can use, this training guide highlights the most commonly used
preferences. It is recommended that you follow the instructions to help customize BusinessObjects.

1. Open the BI Launch Pad and click on My Preferences.


2. In the General section of preferences, you can determine your starting point on the Documents tab.
The instructions below demonstrate setting the preference to directly open a folder to avoid having to
navigate to the desired report each time you open BI Launch Pad.


3. Click on the radial Select Public Folder. Then click on the Browse Folder button.


4. Navigate the folder structure on the left hand portion of the screen under Folders and choose the
desired folder on the right hand side of the screen under Title. Then click on the Open button. In the
example below, the starting point will be the ESH folder.


5. Next increase the number of objects per screen. In the example below, the will be a maximum of 25
items per screen. This is similar to when performing web sites that allow you manage the number of
results you see on the screen.


6. Next click on Locale and Time Zone. This will allow the Business Objects application to use your time
zone and language preferences. By default Business Objects will use setting in your browser to
determine the product locale.*

*Only the interface would be translated and not the data within reports

7. Review the settings; at a minimum choose the correct time zone. By default it will report based on the
server time zone (Central Standard Time).


8. Next click on Web Intelligence.


9. Select Synchronize drill on report blocks. This setting ensures that reports using drill down will
synchronize all the data. For example, drilling from Country to State/Province to City if you drill
to city the reports will reflect the same data in all charts/tables.


10. Click on Save and Close to change the preferences (bottom right). Most of the preferences require a
refresh to see the new changes.


11. Note the sample changes below after refreshing the web browser in the image below. The interface is
now using German as the product locale and it starts in the folder.