Business objects training Creating a Universe: A step by step tutorial Business Objects products are Number One in Reporting, Data Warehousing, and ETL Categories. BusinessObjects 6.0 is used as an OLAP tool and a reporting tool. Here we will learn how to use this product for creating a universe. Universe Universes present the information stored in your company’s databases in a very organized manner. They allow access to this information,without the user having to be an expert in relational database structure. Universes are the most popular and versatile methods of retrieving data for a document. The use of universes is what makes Business Objects truly powerful and easy to use. A universe contains no data itself. However, it stores the instructions on how to retrieve data from some data source, such as a database.Universes are simply computer files that are stored in a repository. A repository is a database that stores, among other things, the universe definitions. When you select a universe from the list, Business Objects will copy the universe file from the repository to your local hard drive. Once the universe file is copied onto the hard drive, Business Objects will use this file to create the SQL instructions to retrieve the information for your reports. The next time the same universe is used to create a report, Business Objects will check the repository to see if the latest version of the universe is on your computer. If the latest version is not on your computer Business Objects will copy the latest version from the repository. We will now see how to create a universe from the SQL server database - Northwind. Create universe: Choose ODBC Drivers from below. Page 1 of 13 Business objects training: A step by step tutorial on Creating a Universe 28/10/2008 http://www.geocities.com/bo_training/?200828
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Business objects training
Creating a Universe: A step by step tutorial
Business Objects products are Number One in Reporting, Data Warehousing, and ETL Categories. BusinessObjects 6.0 is used as an OLAP tool and a reporting tool. Here we will learn how to use this product for creating a universe.
Universe
Universes present the information stored in your company’s databases in a very organized manner. They allow access to this information,without the user having to be an expert in relational database structure. Universes are the most popular and versatile methods of retrieving data for a document. The use of universes is what makes Business Objects truly powerful and easy to use.
A universe contains no data itself. However, it stores the instructions on how to retrieve data from some data source, such as a database.Universes are simply computer files that are stored in a repository. A repository is a database that stores, among other things, the universe definitions. When you select a universe from the list, Business Objects will copy the universe file from the repository to your local hard drive. Once the universe file is copied onto the hard drive, Business Objects will use this file to create the SQL instructions to retrieve the information for your reports. The next time the same universe is used to create a report, Business Objects will check the repository to see if the latest version of the universe is on your computer. If the latest version is not on your computer Business Objects will copy the latest version from the repository.
We will now see how to create a universe from the SQL server database - Northwind.
Create universe:
Choose ODBC Drivers from below.
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Dimensions usually represent the nouns in our database. For example, dimensions can represent employee ID’s, car models, company stocks, dates, etc. We usually total on dimensions. For example, we may want to know the sales volume for a certain date, the number of new employees in a given month, or the total value of the stocks in a
portfolio.
We are going to make a class for products now. This dimension will take the product name from products table field productName.
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Measure objects generally represent aggregated data. Typical measure objects may sum, count, max, min or average. For example, a measure object may sum the daily earnings in a given time period or count the number of employees in a department.
Add another class as Measure
After this just like we had followed for dimensions create an object from
dbo.Order Details".Quantity AS Quantity. Make sure you select ‘Measure’ as shown in below screen and Aggregate as SUM.
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