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  1. PAULSGS

    Conditional Variables

    You could create 6 or 7 variables in your report based upon a single retrieved column and use these variables in your report
  2. PAULSGS

    Universe design - conditional join

    I have used decode (Oracle) to achieve this
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    Report Name Changes when saving to Personal Documents

    This problem occurs frequently, but not all the time, our WEBI environmnet is 6.5 on W2k SP4 against DB2 UDB 8 When a particular user account "prod1" is used to demonstrate the creation of **personal documents** the name that the user chooses for the report is often (but not always) replaced by...
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    Fomatting Twin column Lov's

    WEBI 6.5: Is there any way of improving the display of twin column Lov's? From this LONDON||LON NEW YORK||NY to look more like this LONDON |LON NEW YORK |NY
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    Extra Index Key Required

    We have a query & reporting environment based upon a star schema accessed by the Business Objects WebIntelligence Reporting tool. I have a fact table of journies. The records have columns for departure and arrival points both as numerical ids and as 3 letter abbreviations. Dimension tables...
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    Extra Index Key Required

    I have a fact table of journies. The records have columns for departure and arrival points both as numerical ids and as 3 letter abbreviations. Dimension tables hang off of these two columns and users can retrieve details of journies "TO" a destination or "FROM" a start point. Single column...
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    Force refresh WebI thru SDK

    We have used profile.txt to set a server wide default universe for new WEBI 6.5 users. However this only worked while we had a single Business Objects application. Now a second one is coming on stream requiring a different universe. Is there anyway of setting a default universe for an...
  8. PAULSGS

    On Section Change Event

    Have you thought about resolving this problem at a database level and writing the results to a temporary table or using a stored procedure?
  9. PAULSGS

    horizontal bar chart

    This is just a thought. If you are prepared to automate a rotation of the BO Chart using another tool, why don't you try a more radical approach and get the data into Excel and use the horizontal bar charts facility available in that product? The forums are full of techniques for getting BO...
  10. PAULSGS

    Some one asked me these

    A conformed dimension is one that can be applied to more than one datamart. If you imagine datamarts as building blocks of a datawarehouse then conformed dimensions (i.e. those that "conform" to naming, definition and other corporate standards) will enable you to consolidate the data...
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    One of three fields connect to another table

    Do you always have data in each of the 3 fields in the first table? Or do you only have data in 1 of the 3 fields? If this later is the case, could you use CASE or DECODE or NVL (in Oracle, or the equivalents in other DBs) to reduce the potential 3 fields down to one definitive field? If so...
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    Summary table with logic?

    This is the sort of SQL that will work out the value you want SELECT MAX(AVERAGE) FROM ( SELECT AVERAGE FROM MONTH WHERE MONTH = (SELECT MAX(MONTH) FROM MONTH) UNION SELECT MAX(QUARTERTRAVERAGE) FROM YEAR WHERE QUARTER = (SELECT MAX(QUARTER) FROM YEAR) UNION SELECT...
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    Prompts in Oracle Analytical Functions

    A colleague and I have wrestled for a while now with trying to enhance a prompt embedded within an Oracle Analytical Function. We would like to offer our uses the ability to compute Moving Averages over 3, 6 or 12 month period. As Oracle considers the current month part of the set, our prompts...
  14. PAULSGS

    HINTS IN BO

    You could define objects with hints as their definition, they will not pass the "parse" check but they run fine when combined with other objects. Of course you will need to pick the hint object before any others so that it follows the select
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    Data providers not successfully refreshed with Oracle SP

    Would it be possible for your SP to be modified to return a message to indicate no results found? This way at least one row is always returned to BO and it can distribute the report with the message returned from the SP
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    Advice on Join Strategy

    Can someone shed some light upon the advantages and disadvantages of the joining strategies in BRIO 6.6? There are these options Use all joined Topics Use the minimum number of Topics Use all referenced Topics Use defined Join paths Use Automatic join path generator A co-worker of...
  17. PAULSGS

    Column names not showing up in Designer

    This fix might be all you need - Click on View->Refresh Structure This will re-read the data dictionary and update for any changes that have occurred in the DB and not yet drawn through into the Universe. Another possibility is that you are running designer against a customised strategy...
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    Substitute AND with OR when using multiple measure condition objects

    Have you thought about creating an Alias of your table? This way you could have your two variations of an object looking at one version of the same table each. This should resolve the "ANDing" problem.
  19. PAULSGS

    Add/Change Section Header

    I've tried to replicate your problemm, but I don't get 3 empty cells. The section header content comes from your data, its very similar to a break heading. You might get the results you need by inserting a cell above your table and putting "Attendees" in the cell
  20. PAULSGS

    Hi, My next problem is Is the

    No you can not change the type of a connection that exists, but you can create a new connection for the universe of whatever type you need

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