Macromedia Managing External Breeze Reports User Manual

Managing External Breeze Reports

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Acknowledgments

Editorial Manager: Stephanie Gowin

Writing: Jody Bleyle

Editing: Mary Ferguson

Production Management: Adam Barnett

Media Design and Production: Adam Barnett and John Francis

Second Edition: January 2006

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Intended audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

What’s new in external Breeze reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Guide to documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Chapter 1: Understanding Breeze Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

The Breeze database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

About stored data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

About reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Chapter 2: Using Breeze Reporting Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Database schema views used in reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Database views and data relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Unique identifiers and data relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

EXT_TRANSACTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

EXT_TRANSACTION_DETAILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

EXT_TRANSACTIONS_VIEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

EXT_USERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

EXT_USER_FIELDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

EXT_USER_GROUPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

EXT_OBJECTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

4Contents

Introduction

Macromedia Breeze supports external reporting through a collection of read-only database views. These database views allow you to develop a wide variety of customized reports for use throughout your enterprise.

Intended audience

This document is for licensed Breeze customers who want to develop customized reports based on Breeze data.

What’s new in external Breeze reports

In Macromedia Breeze 5.1, the reporting views have been created in the database. (In Breeze 4.1, you had to create the reporting views and install them on Breeze Communication Server.)

Guide to documentation

In addition to this manual, the following electronic manuals and online help systems are available from the Breeze Documentation Center to help you learn about Breeze:

■ Breeze Manager User Guide describes how to use the administration, presentation, and

meeting applications of Breeze. You can access this guide from the Breeze Manager home page, and from the Help link in Breeze Manager.

■ Breeze Presenter User Guide describes how to create Breeze presentations using PowerPoint

and publish them to Breeze. You can access this document from the Breeze Manager home page, or from the Breeze menu in PowerPoint by selecting Breeze > Help.

■ Breeze Meeting User Guide for Hosts and Presenters includes information about using the

Breeze web application to host online real-time meetings. The documentation includes procedures that demonstrate the simplicity of adding slides, Flash SWF files, images, and live audio and video to your presentation. You can access this guide from the Breeze Manager home page, or from the Help menu within a Breeze meeting room (when you enter as a Presenter) by selecting Meeting > Help.

■ Breeze Meeting User Guide for Participants includes information relevant to users

participating in an online real-time meeting. Breeze Meeting offers meeting participants a variety of options to make their experience truly participatory, including the ability to send messages and questions to Presenters and to each other, and the ability to participate through live video and audio. You can access this guide from the Breeze Manager home page, or from the Help menu within a Breeze meeting room (when you enter as a Participant) by selecting Meeting > Help.

■ Breeze Integration Guide includes information necessary to make application programming

interface (API) calls on the Breeze server from your external system, such as a web application. It also explains how to interpret the XML results that Breeze returns. In addition, the documentation contains reference material about each API and its parameters.

Additional resources

Additional documentation, white papers, and articles are available at the following websites:

Breeze Resource Center This site, at www.macromedia.com/resources/breeze, is updated

regularly with tutorials, simulations, best-practices information, and links to procedures.

Breeze Support Center This site, at www.macromedia.com/support/breeze, contains

current support information, including TechNotes, helpful Breeze presentations, and support program details.

Contact us

For additional assistance, please contact Technical Support.

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