Description

This training aims to make SAP BusinessObjects® designers perfectly autonomous in creating, enriching and deploying universes on a BO 4 platform. They will see all the most useful functionalities of the Designer module and will learn how to implement them optimally.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

IT professionals and users responsible for designing SAP BusinessObjects® universes.

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Get to grips with the Designer interface Understand the stages of designing a universe Create a universe and enter its parameters Create the central schema of the universe from tables and joins Create and organize objects in a universe into classes Enrich, optimize and deploy a universe

Training program

• Introduction to Designer
  • What's new in version 4 of SAP BusinessObjects®.
  • Designer and universe concepts.
  • Universe development procedure.
  • Implementation methodology.
  • Exercise: Discovery of the SAP BusinessObjects® environment.
• Basic Operations
  • Using Designer.
  • Importing a universe.
  • How it works.
  • Opening a universe.
  • Exporting a universe.
  • Creating a universe.
  • Setting universe parameters.
  • Using the Designer user interface.
  • Exercise: Getting started with the Designer module user interface.
  • First elements of creating a universe.
  • Define the parameters of the universe.
• Creating a schema with tables and joins
  • Defining a schema.
  • Inserting tables, defining derived tables.
  • Defining joins and cardinalities.
  • Verification of the universe.
  • Exercise: Define a schema.
  • Work on tables, joins and cardinalities.
• Troubleshooting Joins
  • Join path issues.
  • Defining aliases.
  • Defining objects.
  • Resolving loops.
  • Review Identify problems with join paths.
  • Implement corrective solutions.
• Universe creation
  • Introduction to creating universes.
  • Simple operations on classes and objects.
  • Simple conditions on classes and universes.
  • Definition of classes, objects and hierarchies.
  • Lists of values.
  • Exercise: Create a universe in BO4.
  • Create classes, objects, hierarchies and class operations.
• Optimization of universes
  • Using aggregate tables.
  • Using functions
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  • Using analytical functions.
  • Exercise: Manipulation of the elements covered in the chapter in order to optimize its universe.
• Universe management
  • Deploying universes.
  • Defining access restrictions to a universe.
  • Exercise: Deploy your SAP BusinessObjects® universe.