Training

During this course, you’ll learn how to organize, manage and distribute documents using InfoView. You’ll also learn how to create Web Intelligence documents for your reporting needs, to retrieve data by building queries using BusinessObjects universes and to use Web Intelligence to enhance documents for easier analysis.

After taking this course, you will be able to efficiently and effectively manage personal and corporate documents to access the information you need, when you need it. You will be able to design your own reports using Web Intelligence and share your analysis with other users.

• Accessing information with Web Intelligence
• Understanding how universes allow you to query databases using everyday business terms
• Understanding Web Intelligence core functionalities
• Creating a document in the Web Intelligence Rich Client
• Viewing a Web Intelligence document in InfoView

• Building a simple query
• Modifying a document query
• Working with query properties

• Restricting data with query filters
• Modifying a query with a predefined query filter
• Applying a single-value query filter
• Using prompts to restrict data
• Using complex filters

• Working in the Report Panel
• Displaying data in tables and charts
• Presenting data in free-standing cells

• Using breaks, calculations, and report filters
• Formatting breaks and crosstabs
• Using default and custom sorts
• Ranking data to see top or bottom values
• Tracking data changes
• Using alerters to highlight information
• Organizing a report into sections
• Copying data to other applications

• Preparing documents for PDF and print
• Document formatting
• Formatting charts

• Understanding formulas and variables
• Understanding how Web Intelligence calculates data
• Creating formulas and variables to calculate data

• Adding a new query using a personal data provider
• Creating multiple queries in a document
• Synchronizing data with merged dimensions

• Analyzing the data cube
• Drilling into the data
• Setting Web Intelligence drill options

• Exporting documents from the Rich Client
• Accessing InfoView
• Managing documents in InfoView
• Sharing documents in InfoView
• Scheduling a Web Intelligence document
• Setting InfoView preferences

• BusinessObjects Web Intelligence XI R3: Advanced Report Design