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Business Objects XI - Advanced Desktop Intelligence course
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Overview
Desktop Intelligence is an integrated query, reporting and analysis solution that allows access to corporate databases directly from a desktop. Users can present data to assist them in performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management.
This course builds on the skills learned on the Introduction course and provides a detailed look at the more advanced reporting techniques that equip users in the skills required to create more sophisticated reports.
Audience
Existing users who need to develop their skills and learn advanced product features to help them in generating and distributing reports.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, delegates will have learned how create reports in various styles, enhance the information presented, change the calculation context and use combined queries to create sophisticated reports.
Prerequisites
Delegates should have attended the Introduction to Desktop Intelligence course or have equivalent knowledge.
Course Contents (1 day)
- Revision of Report Building / Design
- Using the Report Manager
- Using the Query Panel
- Organizing data
- Conditions
- Presentation styles
- Formatting
- Formulas & Variables
- Enhance Reports
- Data Synchronisation
- Query Options
- Using the combined query and
sub-query procedures - Insert special fields
- Display column headers on every page
- Using the combined query and
- More Formulas / Functions
- Use the If…Then…Else logic in formula
- Use formulas to manipulate strings
- Concatenate strings
- Using date functions
- Input / Output Calculation Context
- Understand the Input vs Output calculation syntax
- Using the following functions
- Apply ForAll
- In
- ForEach functions
- User Objects
- Create a user object, edit and delete user objects
- Review of User objects