Business Objects FAQs

There is Alerter option in Webi/Webi rich Client. By using this option u can highlight as much as you want. And there is also sub-alerter under Alerter.

With BI 4.0, we cannot anymore use Import Wizard instead we have to use LCM for migrating Reports from one Environment to another. Import Wizard will only be used to migrate reports from One version o...

Import wizard is too complicated for this purpose as it contains lot of options and dose not keeps history of migration of reports and universe. We can use a third party tool called as version manager...

Version Manager (VM) is a comprehensive, yet simple-to-use, version control tool for BusinessObjects. Multiple versions of Universes and Reports can be managed, compared, and securely controlled, prov...

login infoview->click on dash bord manager->create a new dash bord

Index awareness is the ability to take advantage of the indexes on key columns to speed data retrieval. The objects that you create in the universe are based on database columns that are meaningful to...

There comes two types of reports in Business Objects. Standard and Non-Standard.Standard reports are standardised to use by users frequently.They need the same dynamic data all the time they run the r...

Row level security means we can restricted data in row level by using where condition

Object level security means we can restricted data in column level by using particular column

Row Level Security limits the rows(data) a user/group can view. This is implemented using Supervisor in previous versions of BO.From XI we can implement Row Level Security in Designer.We can use @Vari...

When we got loop in the universe, we can resolve loop for using alias and context. But there is no rule for going alias and context. But if we have too many to one converges on single table we go for alias.

While making with between the tables, loops will be created .When the loop will occur with the Master table (Look up table) we have to use Aliases to resolve the loops.When the loop will occur with th...

Cascading prompts means nothing but prompt with in prompt. To implement cascading prompt -->Go to->tools-->list of values-->cascading list of values, and select the objects and click on genetate list of values.

Right click on the report there is option schedule,click on the schedule option.

If the join between two table in structure pane is double clicked we get an popup window where in we can specify the cardinalities and joins(left outer join)

While detecting the cardinality relationship between  two tables,you find two tabs one is right outer join and the other is left you need to select out there.

Yes, and  it will automatically updated if your using same object in other places

Yes we can create the univese by using flat files, for creating the universe we need DSN (Data source name) that is using ODBC connectivity u can create the DSN,Create a DSN for the flat files and try...

No we can't
Universe and flat file are data providers for generating the reports.

We can check the cordiality by doing Integrity check, however it is not always recommended as accurate results are not achieved at times. It is advisable to check manually according to the relationship between the tables.

It is a means of restricting the row and limiting the results returned by the query. As a result displaying information relevant to a user based on criteria’s such as Role/Location etc. A Class...

In Universe we can use Link two Universe.

In WEBI we can use the option of Merge dimensions to join two universe. However we need to customize other objects with measures to join and get the results.

Two universes can be merged in deski using combine query in the data provider.