Business Objects Design Reports and Development Standards

Business Objects Reports

Design and Development Standards
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Table of Contents
1

Introduction......................................................................................................................................4

Reports Design Standards.......................................................................................................5

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7

Naming Conventions...................................................................................................................2
3.1

General Standards for Report Design................................................................................5

Report Margins............................................................................................................................5
Report Columns/Fields..............................................................................................................6
Charts/Graphs.............................................................................................................................7
Cell borders and gridlines.......................................................................................................7
Colors..............................................................................................................................................1
Macros, VBA, ASP/JSP...............................................................................................................1
Reports...........................................................................................................................................2

Help Tab...............................................................................................................................................2

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1 Introduction
This document outlines the standards to be followed while designing the BO Reports

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2 Reports Design Standards

These standards are meant for all reports generated by the system.

2.1 General Standards for Report Design

Property
Report Background
Page Layout
Margin

Value
White
Potrait
28 x from all sides

2.2 Report Margins

Property
Top Margin Header
Left Side of the Header
Centre of the Header
Bottom Margin Footer
Right Side of the Hearder
Centre of The Footer
Report Title Font
Other Header/Footer Fields
Cell Borders

Value
Report Title, Name, Report ID, Company
Logo/Name (Name in Webi), And a line
separating the Header from report body
Company Logo/Name
Report Name
Page Number
Last Execution Time
Page Number
Font
: Arial
Font Style
: Bold and Underlined
Size
: 12
Font
: Arial
Font Style
: Regular
Size
:8
NO, borders not needed for the Header
and Footer Cells

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Header

Footer

The report header must repeat for all report pages.

The report header must not repeat for the different break levels defined in the
report.
Page numbers will be put on the report footer using the BO functions Page(),

2.3 Report Columns/Fields

Property
Prompt Values
Report Column Names

Data Field Font

Field Character
Field Date
Field Numeric
$$ Values
Counts
% Values

Value
should be displayed in the top portion of
the report, after the header
Font
: Arial
Font Style
: Bold
Size
: 10
Color
: White
Background : Blue
Font
: Arial
Font Style
: Regular
Size
: 10
Color
: Black
Left Aligned
Centre Aligned, Format mm/dd/yyyy
Right Aligned
Format $XXX.99, Two Decimal Points
No Decimal Points
One decimal Point

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Prompt Values should be displayed below the Header

The Prompt CE Team and Reporting Month are displayed using the function
UserResponse()

2.4 Charts/Graphs
Property
Chart Border
Chart Title
Chart Title Font
Legend
Value Axis
Data Markers
Axis Values
Chart Position
Chart Color

Value
Bold
Should be added, and appear on Top of
the Chart. Alignment Centre, Wrap Text
- Yes
Font: Arial
Style :Bold
Size : 12
Yes
Default Auto Option
Yes, Specify Varying data Markers
Format as per Chart Requirement
Always on new page, check Print preview
Dark Color, Preferred if the chart will be
Printed in Black and White

2.5 Cell borders and gridlines

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Wherever gridlines are present in the actual report, the same should be simulated
in the BO report using borders of the cells; unless otherwise, borders should be in
bold (maximum thickness).

2.6 Alerter

The Alerter should be given a meaning full name

Description should be Provided

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2.7 Colors

BO report should be in monochrome, except for graphs where its not possible
to show the difference in monochrome/ data labeling markers are same and
cannot be modified.
Color schemes on chart bars need to be distinguishable when printed in black
and white.
Drillable report labels should be bold blue and underlined

2.8 Macros, VBA, ASP/JSP

Macros, VB scripts, if used during development of reports should be named

logically, e.g., AssignDefaultDatetoPrompt. The code should have (in
comments) the description of why the macro was required and describe all the
steps within the code of achieving the same.
The coding standards should be followed based on standards followed for
coding a VB, JSP, or an ASP Application.

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3 Naming Conventions
3.1 Reports
Sr. No.
1.

Object
VARIABLES

Naming Convention
Some
meaningful
names
which
describe
the
characteristics of the variables is to be given. Start the
Variable name with v

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4 Help Tab
The Help tab will provide the background information of the report. The Tab will have
the following information
Report Name
Report Owner
Contact Information
Created By
Creation Date
Last Update on
Last Updated by
Report Requirement
Frequency
Data Window
Prompt help

Rolling 12 months, 1 Month, etc

Prompt 1 accepts . Values, e.g:123
Prompt 2

Universe
Handover Document Name

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