Business Objects Interview Questions

The DENSE_RANK function computes the rank of a row in an ordered group of rows. The ranks are consecutive integers beginning with 1. The largest rank value is the number of unique values returned by t...

We can install BO in sun solaris server. Install the server components like Configuration tool & Administration console and configure the solaris machine as Primary node.

When you are defining Aggregate tables in Universe design, you need to create hirarchies for aggregated objects, for that you need to make the relative objects incompatible (the objects which are of l...

Hai.

when ever we go for define the heirachy,,that time we go for this Incompatible objects..this one test thrugh Aggregate Navigator option..

If some part of the data in your report is sensative, you can't risk sending the whole report to everybody, even to those who need to see the least sensative part of report !Solution is Report Burstin...

hi,You can do Load testing for Webi Reports using Load runner tool.1) Install loadrunner in your  system. ( to use loadrunner you need admin rights).2) Generate loadrunner scripts.3) Use controll...

There is no specfic procedure or a tool to perform load testing for a BO report.

BusinessObjects Enterprise lets you preview a report using thumbnails. You can request the server to take a snapshot of the first page of the report and return it to the browser as an image file. This...

Nested prompts are called "Cascading Prompts" in BusinessObjects environment. try searching for this keyword.

to create cascading prompts, you need to edit the properties of an object & impose another prompt as a condition.

I guess this has been already answered before:http://www.geekinterview.com/question_send/23340hope it helps....cheers...

To create a report using notpad (.txt files) :1.open BusinessObjects --> new report2. select data provider as Others instead of universe, from "Others" drop down list, select "Personal Data Files",...

There is no such tool available yet for comparing Universes/Reports. The best way to compare Universes is to do check intergity constraints & the compare the outputs.

Your objectives for this project will be your Report Requirements. whatever the requirements are baselined, you will develop the universes & create simple, complex reports. Requirements can be :St...

Once you have your report generated, right click in the left window (your variables) click on "New Data Provider" follow the wizard. & you are done.If trying to use diff. data provider for differe...

start BO,

Select "Others" on Data Providers wizard page,

from drop down menu, select "ersonal data files",

specify file location & check the box "First Row contains Column names" this will help you in creating Objects.

click Ok.

Start building your reports.......

Cheers,

Patrick.

We can create any number of universe, but at a time we can open only one universe, generally number of universes should be equal to number of sub-domains.

No restrictions!

you will create as many universes as your database & business logic related Subject areas are present & your project requirements.

we can select either tables or procedures or views as our data to generate our reports.In the designer in bo's we can select tab "insert" n select the particular data source for generating the report through mouse click.

alerts are used to alert some part of the data if any change occurs .select the part of the  data in the report where u want to keep alerts n just click on alerts in the tool bar which is present...

bo XI R2

object store is nothing but the container of object which is created after rpt file run  once.

Both are user in 3-trier architecture. ZABO-Zero Administration BusinessObject means we dont need to install BO to view the reports. while we open the reports through infoview the server installs the ...

ZABO is zero administrator businessobjects , which will be installed on your local m/c when any full client report in opened/edited from infoview . For this you don't require any BO mainkey , key wil...

Yes both can exist on the same tier because Datamart is a subset of data warehouse and it supports a particular region, business unit or business function.



The data in the Datamart and DWH is Denormalized and optimized for OLAP systems

BO SDK is  a software  development kit. It is a part of Business objects Developer suite. It is used to customize or add more features to Business objects, designer and report viewer components.

Developer suite also contains Webintelligence SDK , which is used to customize Webintelligence.