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Course Title:
BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence XI Report Design

Duration: 2 days

Target Audience


Who should attend?
The target audience for this course is Desktop Intelligence report builders.

Prerequisites


Not applicable

Course Content


Introducing Desktop Intelligence
• Understanding core concepts of Desktop Intelligence
• Understanding core functionality of Desktop Intelligence

Getting Started with Desktop Intelligence
• Logging on to Desktop Intelligence
• Modifying start up options
• Accessing help
• Opening documents
• Viewing reports
• Saving documents

Creating Desktop Intelligence Documents with Queries
• Getting new data with Desktop Intelligence
• Creating a query
• Modifying the query
• Understanding Report Manager
• Projecting data

Restricting Data Returned by a Query
• Applying query conditions
• Applying query conditions
• Applying wildcards in conditions
• Using condition objects
• Understanding relational operators in conditions
• Using logical operators for multiple conditions

Designing Reports
• Displaying data in tables and charts
• Formatting Desktop Intelligence documents
• Selecting a presentation style at point of query

Enhancing Presentation of Reports
• Formatting Desktop Intelligence documents using the Slice and Dice Panel
• Applying functions
• Filtering data
• Applying calculations to data
• Applying breaks to data
• Ranking data

Creating Variables and Alerters
• Creating variables and formulas
• Creating alerters
• Creating running calculations

Synchronizing Data from Multiple Data Providers
• Concepts of combining data from multiple sources
• Building a document with blocks of data

Grouping Data using Sections
• Concepts of grouping data using sections
• Sectioning
• Outlining

Creating Templates and Styles
• Creating templates
• Applying styles

Analyzing in Drill Mode
• Analyzing the data cube
• Using the drill-down mode
• Taking a snapshot of the data

Sharing Data with Colleagues
• Sharing reports with BusinessObjects users
• Creating reports for non-BusinessObjects users
• Retrieving reports from the repository
• Exporting data
• Viewing a Desktop Intelligence document in InfoView
• Setting Desktop Intelligence viewing preference



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