BusinessObjects XI R1/R2: Designer: Universe Design

About this class

This course is designed to give learners the comprehensive skills needed to design, build and maintain BusinessObjects XI and XIR2 universes.

Who will the lesson benefit?

The target audience for this course is universe designers.

What delegates will learn

This course is designed to teach learners using both versions of the XI release to how to design BusinessObjects universes using Designer. New features covered in this courses that are not applicable to BusinessObjects XI Release 1 learners include:

• • creating a cascading list of values associated with a hierarchy of objects in a universe
  • setting access restrictions on elements in a universe
  • creating universes from metadata sources
  This icon has been placed throughout the guide to identify features that are specific to
• BusinessObjects XI Release 2.

Contents of this class

Lesson #1 -Understanding BusinessObjects Universes

• Understanding how universes allow
• users to query databases using their
• everyday business terms.

Lesson #2 - Creating the Course Universe

• The course database and universe
• Creating the universe

Lesson #3 - Building the Universe Structure

• Populating the universe structure
• Defining joins in a universe

Lesson #4 - Creating Dimension Objects

• Understanding classes and objects
• Creating classes and objects

Lesson #5 - Creating Measure Objects

• Understanding measure objects
• Creating measure objects

Lesson #6 - Using Lists of Values

• Working with LOVs in Designer
• Creating a cascading LOV