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Tag: Information Design Tool
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The Fate of the Universe Depends on You
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Enhancing Universes With Super Charged Aggregate Aware
Every once in a while, you run into an issue that upon resolving you feel like you’ve leveled up as a user. Like a tech version of the Grinch your brain grows 3 sizes. I don’t know why I had this saved as TypicalConsultant.jpg The issue I encountered revolved around Aggregate Aware and resulted in […]
Show This Dimension, Well Sometimes
Object Level Security Based on User Recently I had an interesting request come up and I thought I would share the solution with my fellow universe development nerds. Hope you enjoy and questions\comments are always welcome! Just like in the Universe Designer, Information Design Tool (IDT) in BI4 gives you options to create security profiles […]
Analyze and Visualize Data with the Information Design Tool
Often I am asked by BusinessObjects customers whether it is worth the time to upgrade a universe from the traditional (UNV) Universe to the newer (UNX) universe. Since BI4 supports both the new and legacy universes, it does give you the option to stay with what you’ve known and with what you are most comfortable […]
Simplify Contexts Inside of SAP BusinessObjects Universes with the IDT
Contexts are sometimes viewed as a necessary evil in the SAP BusinessObjects universe. If you are unfamiliar with a context, it is a universe feature identifying a specific path for a query when certain objects are used in a SQL SELECT statement. There may be multiple paths to get to a measure and depending on […]
The SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe Connector
I feel like I rubbed a magic bottle and got my first wish. Yes, perhaps I aimed too low, but in February, I wrote about my desire to see the SAP BusinessObjects Universe exposed as a service. To my surprise, that announcement about the SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe Connector was apparently around the corner. I […]
BOBJ for BW: Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the Information Design Tool
Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the Information Design Tool We continue our series on BOBJ for BW with our second method to creating an OLAP BICS connection. This method utilizes the Information Design Tool (IDT). The IDT comes as part of the standard installation of the BI4.x client tools. Previously, we covered the OLAP […]
BOBJ for BW: Create a BICS OLAP Connection
Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the BusinessObjects Central Management Console (CMC) At evtechnologies.com, we are starting a new blog series on getting your SAP BusinessObjects and BW environments in sync and configured for optimal reporting and query design. Previously, with BusinessObjects XI 3.1, there were limited options to deliver BW data to BusinessObjects. […]