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BusinessObjects Encyclopedia
Installation and User Guide
BusinessObjects Encyclopedia XI
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Contents
Chapter 1 About This Guide 5
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Who should read this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Business Objects information resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2 Installing Encyclopedia 7
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Pre-installation checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installing Encyclopedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Completing the configuration (Java only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Maintaining Encyclopedia access rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 3 Introduction 17
What is Encyclopedia? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Accessing Encyclopedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Creating and maintaining Encyclopedia information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The Overview page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Editing overview information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 4 Creating and Maintaining Business Questions 23
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Creating a question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Associating questions with a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Editing a question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Deleting a question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 5 Creating and Maintaining Glossary Terms 29
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Creating a term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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Associating a glossary term with a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Editing a term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Deleting a term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 6 Creating and Maintaining Guided Analysis 35
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Following a storyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Creating a storyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Editing a storyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Deleting a storyline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Appendix A Business Objects Information Resources 41
Documentation and information services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
What’s in the documentation set? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Where is the documentation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Send us your feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Customer support, consulting and training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
How can we support you? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Looking for the best deployment solution for your company? . . . . . . . . 44
Looking for training options? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Useful addresses at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Index 47
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About This Guide
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Introduction
Introduction
This guide describes the following:
• what Encyclopedia is
• how Encyclopedia can help you understand and use reports in InfoView
• how to install Encyclopedia
• how to create Encyclopedia entries
• how to maintain the report overview, business questions, glossary terms,
and guided analysis that are associated with a report
Who should read this guide
This guide is intended for:
• system administrators who are responsible for installing Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia administrators who are responsible for maintaining access
rights of InfoView users
• InfoView users who create and maintain Encyclopedia content
• InfoView users who view reports and want to know more about them
Business Objects information resources
For more information and assistance, see Appendix A: Business Objects
Information Resources. This appendix describes Business Objects
documentation, customer support, training, and consulting services, with links
to online resources.
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Introduction
This chapter include the following topics:
• Pre-installation checklist
• Installing Encyclopedia
• Completing the configuration (Java only)
• Maintaining Encyclopedia access rights
Pre-installation checklist
Before you install Encyclopedia:
❏ Check that your operating system, database, middleware, application
and web servers are supported by Business Objects.
To do so, check the Products Availability Report (PAR) for the list of
currently supported platform configurations. This is available on
www.techsupport.businessobjects.com.
❏ Ensure that you have BusinessObjects Enterprise XI installed on your
server, and that you have a Business Objects Premium keycode.
❏ Ensure that you have installed any necessary HotFixes and CSPs.
See the Release Notes for more information.
❏ Ensure that you have access to an administrator account on
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI.
The default administrator account is:
• User name: Administrator
• No password
❏ Ensure that .NET and IIS 5 or 6 are installed and configured.
These are required for the installer, and can optionally be used for other
servers as well.
❏ If you want to use the Java version of Encyclopedia, ensure that the
following are installed and configured:
• JDK 1.3.1.02 or later
• an Application Server (such as Tomcat)
• a Web Server (such as Apache)
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Pre-installation checklist
If your Java web application server does not install the Java SDK as part
of its installation process, you must install the J2SE SDK first, before
installing Encyclopedia. You can download the J2SE SDK from
java.sun.com.
Read the documentation on the Sun web site, and select a version of the
J2SE SDK that is compatible both with your Java application server and
with the BusinessObjects Enterprise Java SDK.
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Installing Encyclopedia
Installing Encyclopedia
To install Encyclopedia:
1. Extract the Encyclopedia zip file to a local machine.
2. Double-click
3. Follow the instructions in the wizard to:
• enter your name and organization
• set access rights
• define the installation folder
This must be the Business Objects folder in which your Business
Objects Enterprise 11 installation folder resides.
Note: If you have installed Business Objects Enterprise XI to a
location other than the default, you must change the Encyclopedia
installation location to the same folder.
Click Next on each screen to advance to the next step.
When you click Next after defining the installation folder, the Select
Features window appears.
setup.exe to launch the Encyclopedia XI Setup wizard.
This window lists the Encyclopedia features that are available for you to
install. When you click a feature’s name, the right panel displays a
description of the feature, and indicates the amount of space it needs
when you install it.
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• You must install the plug-ins on the same machine as your CMS.
• You must install your web components on the same machine as your
InfoView server.
4. Select the Encyclopedia features you want to install.
Each one offers the following installation options:
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The icon next to each feature changes to indicate your selection. For
example, if you decide not to install the Java component, the window
appears as follows:
A red X indicates that a component
will not be installed
Note: You can also use this window to change the installation location
you specified earlier, if required.
5. Click Next.
A message informs you that the wizard is ready to begin installation.
6. Click Next.
The installation wizard installs the features you selected.
During the installation process, the Encyclopedia Framework Builder
window appears.
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7. Complete the information in this window as described in the table below.
Field Description
System The name of the system on which to install the
Encyclopedia framework.
User Name A user name on the system on which you are
installing the Encyclopedia framework. This user
must have Business Objects administrator rights.
Password The password for this user.
Authentication Lists all the authentication methods that the
Encyclopedia framework supports. Select one that is
supported by your system.
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8. Click OK.
The tool installs the framework objects for Encyclopedia.
Note: This tool does not install any Encyclopedia content. It provides an
empty framework that you can populate:
• by installing BusinessObjects Performance Management
Applications
See the BusinessObjects Performance Management Applications
Installation Guide for more information.
• by creating your own content appropriate to your data
Once it has finished, the OK button changes to Close.
9. Click Close to exit the tool.
10. When the installation finishes, click Finish to exit the wizard.
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Completing the configuration (Java only)
Completing the configuration (Java only)
To complete configuration of Encyclopedia for use on Java:
1. Create a backup of your current versions of
jsfadmin.war.
If you kept the default folder location during installation, these are in:
C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects
Enterprise 11\java\applications
For your backup, Business Objects recommends you:
• create a backups folder (if it does not already exist) under
C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects
Enterprise 11\java\applications
• name the backup files desktop-enc11.war and jsfadmin-
enc11.war
• copy it to the folder you have just created
2. Copy the original files to your
If you kept the default folder location during installation, this is in:
C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects
Enterprise 11\Encyclopedia
3. Run runENC_Integrator.bat.
If you kept the default folder location during installation, this is in:
C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects
Enterprise 11\Encyclopedia\Java Web Components
This batch file copies files from the webapp and adminlaunch folders
into your war files, and makes changes to some XML files.
Note: This may take several minutes.
4. Stop the Apache Tomcat service (or your web server, if not Apache
Tomcat).
5. Copy the updated versions of
C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects
Enterprise 11\java\applications
These files overwrite the original files that you backed up in step 1.
6. Deploy your war files.
Note: If you are using Apache Tomcat, the files are deployed
automatically.
7. If you are using Apache Tomcat, delete the following folders:
.
Java Web Components folder.
desktop.war and jsfadmin.war into:
desktop.war and
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• C:\Program Files\Business
Objects\Tomcat\webapps\businessobjects\enterprise11\d
esktoplaunch
• C:\Program Files\Business
Objects\Tomcat\webapps\jsfadmin
• C:\Program Files\Business
Objects\Tomcat\work\Catalina\localhost\business_objec
ts_enterprise11_desktoplaunch
• C:\Program Files\Business
Objects\Tomcat\work\Catalina\localhost\jsfadmin
8. Restart the Apache Tomcat service (or your web server, if not Apache
To mc a t) .
Maintaining Encyclopedia access rights
When you have installed Encyclopedia, be sure to have an administrator with
a General Supervisor profile give appropriate access to all users who will
need to use Encyclopedia.
You use the Central Management Console to set and manage Encyclopedia
users’ access rights. This becomes possible only after Encyclopedia is
installed. Only users with a Business Objects profile of General Supervisor
can control access rights in the Central Management Console.
There are two different levels of access available:
• Edit
Edit access lets users edit data in Encyclopedia.
• Read Only
Read Only is the default access level for all users.
To set access rights:
1. Log into the Central Management Console as a General Supervisor.
2. Click BusinessObjects Enterprise Applications.
3. Click Encyclopedia Admin.
The Encyclopedia Admin page appears, showing which users and
groups have edit access to Encyclopedia.
4. Edit access rights for your users and groups as follows:
2
• Click Add users/groups to grant edit rights to others.
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• Select a name from the list then click Remove edit right to change
• Click Refresh to refresh the list on screen.
the rights for a user or group to read only.
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What is Encyclopedia?
What is Encyclopedia?
Encyclopedia provides business intelligence users with essential information
about their reports. It enables users to answer questions such as:
• What is the purpose of the report?
• What business questions does it help answer?
• How is it best viewed?
• What terms are used in the report and what do they mean?
• What other reports are related to this one?
• What analysis has been used in the report, and how does it work?
Encyclopedia is designed for use by business users within InfoView. It can
apply to any object in the Business Objects Central Management System,
such as Web Intelligence reports, OLAP Intelligence reports, plus PDF and
Excel documents, and so on.
Encyclopedia contains the following information:
• Overview—describes the report, its purpose and how to use it.
See “The Overview page” on page 20 for more information.
• Business Questions—lists the business questions that the report helps
answer.
See “Creating and Maintaining Business Questions” on page 23 for more
information.
• Glossary—describes the key terms in the report.
See “Creating and Maintaining Glossary Terms” on page 29 for more
information.
• Guided Analysis—suggests other reports that might be useful to view in
addition to the current report.
See “Creating and Maintaining Guided Analysis” on page 35 for more
information.
Note: In Encyclopedia, the words analytic and report are synonymous.
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Accessing Encyclopedia
You access Encyclopedia through InfoView. When you open a report to view
its contents, you can display Encyclopedia alongside the report to help you
understand and interpret the report’s content.
By default, Encyclopedia is not displayed when you open a report. To toggle
the display, click the Toggle Information Pane icon in the InfoView toolbar.
Encyclopedia appears on the right of the screen.
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Accessing Encyclopedia
3
Tip: If a Prompts panel or a Search panel appears instead, use the list box to
select Encyclopedia, as shown below.
Click this arrow...
... then click Encyclopedia
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Creating and maintaining Encyclopedia information
Creating and maintaining Encyclopedia
information
If you have the necessary rights, you can make changes to any of the four
main parts of Encyclopedia: Overview, Glossary Terms, Business Questions,
and Guided Analysis.
If you do not have the necessary rights, contact your system administrator.
The Overview page
The Encyclopedia Overview page is the first page that is displayed on your
screen when you open Encyclopedia.
When you first open Encyclopedia for a report, the title and description are
taken from the report object’s title and description, as defined in the Central
Management System.
These are illustrated below.
Click here to create and edit the information
in Encyclopedia about this report
Indicates the Encyclopedia page currently
on display
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Summary information for this report
Tabs that provide access to the rest of the
information in Encyclopedia that is specific
to this report
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Editing overview information
To edit overview information:
1. Click Edit.
2. Click the Overview tab.
Tip: Resize the Encyclopedia panel to view all of the edit options by
dragging the left side of the panel towards the center of your screen.
3. Enter information into the Overview fields as follows:
Field Description
Title The title of the report.
Description Brief summary of the report. This should contain
enough information for readers to decide whether or
not the report will be useful to them.
Purpose A more detailed description of the report and what
purpose it serves.
Usage Explains how to use the report. This information can
include explanations of:
• any terms used in the report
• how to interpret charts, tables, and measures
• the prompts in the report and how to use them
• how to use any guided analysis associated with
the report
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4. Click OK.
Example: Overview information for a report
The following information is taken from a report available through
BusinessObjects Performance Management Applications:
Field Description
Title Enterprise KPI Tracker
Description Highlights the performance change, over time, of a
choice of measures that are important to your business.
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The Overview page
Field Description
Purpose It highlights the performance change, over time, of a
choice of measures that are important to your business.
The measures are profit, number of baskets
(transactions) and number of order lines. This gives you
a high level view of your business.
Usage The goal of the Enterprise KPI Tracker is to provide you
with a comprehensive view of your business, with
immediate impact. The Enterprise KPI Tracker enables
you to view any desired metrics for the current full year
versus a year ago. The change in value is presented in
absolute and percentage terms together with a
graphical display. Clicking on the magnifying glass will
present you with a more detailed display of the chart.
The name of each metric is also a hyperlink, enabling
you to see the value of the metric trended through time.
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Introduction
Introduction
A business question is a business-oriented query that is answered by one or
more reports in InfoView. Business questions are linked to relevant reports,
so by selecting a question, the user is given the choice of one or more reports
that will help answer that question.
This chapter describes how to maintain the business questions that are
stored in and used by Encyclopedia.
An example of the Business Questions tab is shown below.
From here you can:
• Click + next to a business question to display the list of reports that are
associated with it.
• Click Edit to maintain the business questions associated with this report.
You do this report by:
• Creating a question
• Associating questions with a report
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• Editing a question
• Deleting a question
Once you have finished maintaining the business questions, click OK to
return to the Encyclopedia summary page.
Creating a question
To create a question:
1. Click the Business Questions tab.
2. Enter a new question in the Business Question box at the bottom of the
panel.
3. Click New.
Encyclopedia adds the question to the Available pane.
Note: For this question to be useful to Encyclopedia users, you must
now associate it with one or more reports. See “Associating questions
with a report” on page 25 for more information.
4. Click OK.
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Associating questions with a report
To associate a business question with a report:
1. Open the report with which you want to associate a question.
2. Click Edit.
3. Click the Business Questions tab in Encyclopedia.
The Edit page appears.
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Associating questions with a report
The Selected pane displays the questions that are already associated
with the report.
4. Search for the questions you want to associate with the report:
• Type some text in the text box above the Available pane and click the
Search arrow. Encyclopedia displays a list of all the questions
containing the text you entered.
• Click the Search arrow without entering any text to display a list of all
available questions.
5. Add or remove questions associated with the report as follows:
To... Click... In... Then click...
Associate a question
with the report
Associate all
available questions
with the report
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The question The Available
pane
>>
>
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To... Click... In... Then click...
Remove an
association for the
report
Remove all
associations for the
report
6. Click OK to confirm your actions.
Editing a question
To edit a question:
1. Select the question you want to update in the Available pane.
The question is displayed in the Business Question text box.
Note: You cannot update a question from the Selected pane.
2. Make your changes to the question.
3. Click Update.
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Editing a question
The question The Selected
pane
<<
<
4
Deleting a question
To delete a question:
1. If the question you want to delete is currently selected for the report on
display, remove the association as described in “Associating questions
with a report” on page 25.
2. In the Available pane, select the question you want to delete from
Encyclopedia.
3. Click Delete.
Encyclopedia deletes the business question.
This action deletes the question completely, so it is no longer available for any
other reports with which it may have been associated. Do not delete a
question from Encyclopedia unless you are sure there is no need for it to be
associated with any reports.
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Deleting a question
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Introduction
Introduction
A glossary term is a definition of a term used in a report. These definitions are
maintained in Encyclopedia, and are available to all users as they view
reports and navigate around related reports. Glossary terms are linked to
relevant reports.
This chapter describes how to maintain these glossary terms in Encyclopedia.
An example of the Glossary Terms tab is shown below.
From here you can:
• Point your mouse at a glossary term to display its description as a tool tip.
• Click + next to a glossary term to display the list of reports that are
associated with the term.
• Click Edit to maintain the glossary terms associated with this report.
You do this by:
• Creating a term
• Associating a glossary term with a report
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• Editing a term
• Deleting a term
Once you have finished maintaining the glossary terms, click OK to return to
the Encyclopedia summary page.
Creating a term
To create a term:
1. Click the Glossary Terms tab.
2. Enter a new term in the Glossary Term box at the bottom of the pane.
3. Enter a description for the term in the Description box.
4. Click New.
Encyclopedia adds the term to the Available pane.
Note: For this term to be useful to Encyclopedia users, you must now
associate it with one or more reports. See “Associating a glossary term
with a report” on page 31 for more information.
5. Click OK.
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Creating a term
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Associating a glossary term with a report
To associate a glossary term with a report:
1. Open the report with which you want to associate a term.
2. Click Edit.
3. Click the Glossary Terms tab in Encyclopedia.
The Edit page appears.
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Associating a glossary term with a report
The Selected pane displays the terms that are already associated with it.
4. Search for the terms you want to associate with the report:
• Type some text in the text box above the Available pane and click the
Search arrow. Encyclopedia displays a list of all the terms containing
the text you entered.
• Click the Search arrow without entering any text to display a list of all
available terms.
5. Add or remove terms associated with the report as follows:
To... Click... In... Then click...
Associate a term with
the report
Associate all available
terms with the report
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pane
>>
>
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To... Click... In... Then click...
Remove an
association for the
report
Remove all
associations for the
report
6. Click OK to confirm your actions.
Editing a term
To edit a term:
1. Select the term you want to update in the Available pane.
The term is displayed in the Glossary Term text box.
Note: You cannot update a term from the Selected pane.
2. Make your changes to the term.
3. Click Update.
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The term The Selected
pane
<<
Editing a term
<
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Deleting a term
To delete a term:
1. If the term you want to delete is currently selected for the report on
display, remove the association as described in “Associating a glossary
term with a report” on page 31.
2. In the Available pane, select the term you want to delete from
Encyclopedia.
3. Click Delete.
Encyclopedia deletes the glossary term.
This action deletes the term completely, so it is no longer available for any
other reports with which it may have been associated. Do not delete a
glossary term from Encyclopedia unless you are sure there is no need for it to
be associated with any reports.
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Deleting a term
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Introduction
Introduction
Guided Analysis provides you with suggested navigation paths—or
storylines—through reports in InfoView. A storyline suggests, for the currently
selected report, other reports you might like to go to next, and ones you might
want to go back to that lead to the current report.
An example of the Guided Analysis tab is shown below.
From here you can:
• Follow any existing storylines by clicking the links displayed.
See “Following a storyline” on page 37 for more information.
• Click Edit to maintain the guided analysis associated with this report.
You do this by:
• Creating a storyline
• Editing a storyline
• Deleting a storyline
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Once you have finished maintaining the storylines, click OK to return to the
Encyclopedia summary page.
Following a storyline
The Guided Analysis tab allows you to choose and follow storylines that
include the current report. To do so:
1. Select the storyline you want to follow from the list at the top.
The Guided Analysis panel displays all the reports in the storyline in the
order in which they occur, with the current report clearly indicated.
2. Click the name of the report you want to view.
The report appears in the main InfoView panel.
If the report you select uses prompts, you must complete them before the
report is shown.
Creating a storyline
To create a storyline:
1. Open the report for which you want to create a storyline.
2. Click the Guided Analysis tab.
The Edit page appears.
Creating and Maintaining Guided Analysis
Following a storyline
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Creating a storyline
3. Enter a title for the storyline in the Storyline Name box.
4. Click New.
Encyclopedia adds the storyline to the list.
5. Search for the reports you want to add to the storyline:
• Type some text in the text box above the Available pane and click the
Search arrow. Encyclopedia displays a list of all the reports whose
titles contain the text you entered.
• Click the Search arrow without entering any text to display a list of all
available reports.
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Editing a storyline
6. Add or remove source reports associated with the current storyline as
follows:
To... Click... In... Then click...
Add a source report to
the storyline
Add all available
source reports to the
storyline
Remove a source
report from the
storyline
Remove all source
reports from the
storyline
Note: A source analytic is a report that links to the current report in the
storyline; it occurs earlier in the storyline. A target analytic is a report to
which the current report links; it occurs later in the storyline.
7. Add or remove target reports in the same way, using the Target Analytics
panes.
8. Click OK to confirm your actions.
The report title The Source
Analytics Available
pane
>>
The report title The Source
Analytics Selected
pane
<<
>
<
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Editing a storyline
To edit a storyline:
1. Select the storyline you want to update in the Available pane.
The storyline’s name is displayed in the Storyline Name text box and the
reports associated with the storyline are displayed in the Selected panes.
2. Make your changes to the storyline name.
3. Click Update.
4. Change the reports associated with the storyline if required, as described
in “Creating a storyline” on page 37.
5. Click OK.
Deleting a storyline
To delete a storyline:
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Deleting a storyline
1. Select the storyline you want to delete from the list.
2. Click Delete.
Encyclopedia deletes the storyline.
This action deletes the storyline completely, so it is no longer available from
any of the other reports that formed part of the storyline. The reports
themselves are not deleted.
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Business Objects Information Resources
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Documentation and information services
Documentation and information services
Business Objects offers a full documentation set covering its products and
their deployment. Additional support and services are also available to help
maximize the return on your business intelligence investment. The following
sections detail where to get Business Objects documentation and how to use
the resources at Business Objects to meet your needs for technical support,
education, and consulting.
Documentation
You can find answers to your questions on how to install, configure, deploy,
and use Business Objects products from the documentation.
What’s in the documentation set?
View or download the Business Objects Documentation Roadmap, available
with the product documentation at http://www.businessobjects.com/support/.
The Documentation Roadmap references all Business Objects guides and
lets you see at a glance what information is available, from where, and in
what format.
Where is the documentation?
You can access electronic documentation at any time from the product
interface or the web.
Documentation from the products
Online help and guides in Adobe PDF format are available from the product
Help menus. Where only online help is provided, the online help file contains
the entire contents of the PDF version of the guide.
Documentation on the web
The full electronic documentation set is available to customers on the web
from support web site at: http://www.businessobjects.com/support/.
Documentation on the product CD
Look in the Documentation directory of your product CD or zip file for versions
of guides in Adobe PDF format.
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Customer support, consulting and training
Send us your feedback
Do you have a suggestion on how we can improve our documentation? Is
there something you particularly like or have found useful? Drop us a line,
and we will do our best to ensure that your suggestion is included in the next
release of our documentation: documentation@businessobjects.com.
Note: If your issue concerns a Business Objects product and not the
documentation, please contact our Customer Support experts. For
information about Customer Support visit: http://www.businessobjects.com/
support/.
Customer support, consulting and training
A global network of Business Objects technology experts provides customer
support, education, and consulting to ensure maximum business intelligence
benefit to your business.
How can we support you?
Business Objects offers customer support plans to best suit the size and
requirements of your deployment. We operate customer support centers in
the following countries:
• USA
• United Kingdom
• Australia
• Canada
• Japan
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Online Customer Support
The Business Objects Customer Support web site contains information about
Customer Support programs and services. It also has links to a wide range of
technical information including knowledge base articles, downloads, and
support forums.
http://www.businessobjects.com/support/
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Customer support, consulting and training
Looking for the best deployment solution for your company?
Business Objects consultants can accompany you from the initial analysis
stage to the delivery of your deployment project. Expertise is available in
relational and multidimensional databases, in connectivities, database design
tools, customized embedding technology, and more.
For more information, contact your local sales office, or contact us at:
http://www.businessobjects.com/services/consulting/
Looking for training options?
From traditional classroom learning to targeted e-learning seminars, we can
offer a training package to suit your learning needs and preferred learning
style. Find more information on the Business Objects Education web site:
http://www.businessobjects.com/services/training
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Useful addresses at a glance
Address Content
Business Objects product
information
http://www.businessobjects.com
Product documentation
http://www.businessobjects.com/
support
Business Objects Documentation
mailbox
documentation@businessobjects.com
Online Customer Support
http://www.businessobjects.com/
support/
Business Objects Consulting
Services
http://www.businessobjects.com/
services/consulting/
Business Objects Education
Services
http://www.businessobjects.com/
services/training
Useful addresses at a glance
Information about the full range of
Business Objects products.
Business Objects product
documentation, including the
Business Objects Documentation
Roadmap.
Send us feedback or questions
about documentation.
Information on Customer Support
programs, as well as links to
technical articles, downloads, and
online forums.
Information on how Business
Objects can help maximize your
business intelligence investment.
Information on Business Objects
training options and modules.
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A
access
through InfoView 19
access rights
maintaining 15
administrator
default account 8
analytic
use of term 18
Apache Tomcat 14
Application Server
as pre-requisite 8
audience
this guide 6
B
backup files
naming conventions 14
business intelligence
using Encyclopedia for 18
Business Objects
consulting services 44, 45
support services 43
training services 44, 45, 45
Business Objects Enterprise XI
installation folder 10
business questions
answered by Encyclopedia 18
associating with reports 25
available 26
creating 25
deleting 27
editing 27
introduction 24
removing 26
searching for 26
selected 26
selecting 26
showing associated reports 24
BusinessObjects Enterprise
administrator account 8
C
Central Management Console
setting rights 15
configuration
Java 14
configurations
supported 8
consultants, Business Objects 44
CSPs 8
customer support 43
D
desktop.war file
deploying 14
display
resizing 21
toggling Encyclopedia 19
displaying Encyclopedia
alongside report 19
documentation
feedback on 43
on product CD 42
on the web 42
roadmap 42
E
education. See training
Encyclopedia
introduction 18
resizing display 21
Encyclopedia features
installing 10
Encyclopedia framework
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authentication 13
example Encyclopedia entry 21
F
feedback, on documentation 43
Framework Builder
using 12
G
glossary terms
associating with reports 31
available 32
creating 31
deleting 33
editing 33
introduction 30
removing 32
searching for 32
selected 32
selecting 32
showing associated reports 30
viewing as tool tips 30
guided analysis
associated with a report 36
introduction 36
H
HotFixes 8
I
information resources 42
InfoView
accessing Encyclopedia through 19
installation
HotFixes and CSPs 8
pre-requisites 8
installation folder
pre-requisite 10
J
JDK
as pre-requisite 8
jsfadmin.war file
deploying 14
N
.NET
as pre-requisite 8
O
Online Customer Support 43
Overview page
contents 20
editing 21
P
plug-ins
where to install 11
prompts 19
Q
questions See business questions
R
report
use of term 18
report description 21
report purpose 21
report title 21
report use 21
reports
associated with business questions 24
associated with glossary terms 30
searching for 38
resources 42
runENC_Integrator.bat file
using 14
S
sample Encyclopedia entry 21
search 19
source reports
for guided analysis 39
storyline
explanation of 36
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creating 37
deleting 39
editing 39
following 37
support
customer 43
locations 43
technical 43
web site 43
supported configurations 8
T
target reports
for guided analysis 39
technical support 43
terms See glossary terms
training, on Business Objects products 44
W
web
customer support 43
getting documentation via 42
useful addresses 45
web components
where to install 11
Web Server
as pre-requisite 8
web sites
support 43
training 44
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