BOR210 - Desktop Intelligence XI R2: Report Design

Description: Desktop Intelligence is an integrated query, reporting, and analysis solution that

allows business users to access the data in their corporate databases directly from their

desktop, and present and analyze this information in a Desktop Intelligence document.

This course is designed to give learners comprehensive skills and core knowledge to present and analyze information, distribute documents and reports, and use the major reporting features of Desktop Intelligence. After completing this course, learners will be able to present information in reports as tables, as well as sophisticated dynamic documents with drillable charts. Learners will also be able to distribute documents and reports to colleagues.

BusinessObjects 6.x and BusinessObjects XI R2 Objectives: This course is designed to teach learners using the XI R2 version how to create Desktop Intelligence documents using Desktop Intelligence. Note that there is not an XI R1 version of Desktop Intelligence and that the previous version is BusinessObjects 6.x full client. New features covered in this course include:

Export to repository is equivalent to the 6.x workflows "publish to corporate documents" and "send to personal documents." Publishing to public folders is the same as to corporate documents.
Users are able to browse through the folders structure or the categories structure.
Data providers available include universe, personal data files, stored procedures, free hand SQL (in 2-tier mode only), XML data providers, and VBA data provider.
Desktop Intelligence can be launched from InfoView.

Student Profile: This course is designed primarily for business users who need to generate effective reports using BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence. This course applies to BusinessObjects XI R1, XI R2 , 6.5, 6.x and 5.x.

Prerequisites: None.

Curriculum: Course topics include:

Introducing Desktop Intelligence

Understand core concepts of Desktop Intelligence
Understand core functionality of Desktop Intelligence

Getting Started With Desktop Intelligence

Log on to Desktop Intelligence
Modify start-up options
Access help
Open documents
View reports
Save documents

Creating Desktop Intelligence Documents With Queries

Get new data with Desktop Intelligence
Create a query
Modify the query
Understand Report Manager
Project data

Restricting Data Returned by a Query

Apply query conditions
Apply wildcards in conditions
Use condition objects
Understand relational operators in conditions
Use logical operators for multiple conditions

Designing Reports

Display data in tables & charts
Format Desktop Intelligence documents
Select a presentation style at point of query

Enhancing Presentation of Reports

Format Desktop Intelligence documents using the Slice & Dice Panel
Apply functions
Filter data
Apply calculations to data
Apply breaks to data
Rank data

Creating Variables & Alerters

Create variables & formulas
Create alerters
Create running calculations

Synchronizing Data From Multiple Data Providers

Understand concepts of combining data from multiple sources
Build a document with blocks of data

Grouping Data Using Sections

Understand concepts of grouping data using sections
Section data
Outline data

Creating Templates & Styles

Create templates
Apply styles

Analyzing in Drill Mode

Analyze the data cube
Use the drill-down mode
Take a snapshot of the data

Sharing Data With Colleagues

Share reports with BusinessObjects users
Create reports for non-BusinessObjects users
Retrieve reports from the repository
Export data
View a Desktop Intelligence document in InfoView
Set Desktop Intelligence viewing preferences