BusinessObjects: Advanced BusinessObjects Reporting

Course Number:  514-JC
Recommended Duration:  1 day

Intended Audience
Employees that have been using BusinessObjects and need to create more complex queries in order to retrieve the right data from the database.

Course Overview
Building upon the introductory class, this session provides more details on a number of topics (linking, subqueries, charts, etc.) that are needed to construct more sophisticated reports.

Prerequisites
Completion of the Introduction to Desktop Intelligence class or significant experience with BusinessObjects is recommended.

Topics

• Advanced operators

• Both

• Except

• Advanced operands

• Sharing prompts

• Calculation

• Complex conditions

• Union, Join and Intersection queries

• Subqueries

• User objects

• Creating report variables

• Using external data

• Linking multiple queries

• Manipulating sectioned reports

• Working with charts and crosstabs