Business Objects(BO)-Export data from BO-Beginners Guide-12

Business Objects like any other tool supports data exporting which increases its robustness. One can easily create a report and export it to XML or txt or any other format to use it later. These exporting requires no brainer and i would prefer this exporting when ever there is a need to. Needs in here i mean scenarios such as

You are asked to create an XML format which can be feeded to some other tool.
You are asked to migrate to a newer Business Objects version.

Drill, Slice and Dice in Business Objects(BO)-Beginners Guide-11

With Business Objects(BO) the data is analyzed in different perspectives. BO data can be organized using different mechanisms like DRILLING or SLICING and DICING.

On report analysis:

Allows to work directly on the data in the report using drag and drop or with simple mouse clicks.

The data can be added from the Report Manager to create tables and sections.

Option to replace, swap and re‐organize data on the report is possible.

Sort, filter, and rank is possible using a simple mouse click to focus the analysis on a slice of data.

A break does what its name implies. It breaks up the data in a table or crosstab by grouping the data according to a selected value. This allows you to display all the data for each value of a dimension variable together, and more importantly, it allows you to display subtotals.

Business Objects(BO)-Highlight Data-Alerters-Beginners Guide-10

How to Highlight Data in Business Objects(BO) using Alerters?

The data in Business Objects(BO) can be highlighted using alerters. Alerters use special formatting to make data that fits certain conditions stand out from the rest of the data.This helps draw attention to trends and exceptions in report data

Ranking Data In Business Objects(BO)-Beginners Tutorial-8

How to use Rank data in Business Objects(BO) :
Ranking enables to look at the largest and smallest numbers in a report. Like filtering, it hides the data you do not want to display. Desktop ntelligence does not delete the data from the report; you can view it again whenever you like by removing the ranking.
Rank can be applied to data in tables, crosstabs or master cells in master/detail reports.

Example: Display the three top‐selling product lines only:

In this example, the table shows sales revenue for the product lines in the efashion retail chain. The table on the left shows revenue for all product lines. In the table on the right, the product lines column shows only the top three selling lines.

How to Sort data in Business Objects(BO)-Beginners Tutorial-7

How to Sort data In Business Objects (BO): The order in which the data appears in rows and columns is changed by applying a sort on the data.
For example, you can sort a column of city names to have the cities appear in alphabetical order. You can apply a sort on text, dates, or numbers.