SAP Business Objects 4.0 (SP02) Information Design Tool (Universe Designer) List of Values and Publishing Universe to repository

1. Information Design Tool (**Universe
Design Tool)
Creating a Universe using IDT
**Here the data is stored in a MS Access DB and connection to the DB is made
using ODBC**
Our intension is to design/develop a Universe, which can be used by the webI
users to create reports as per the requirements. The process is as follows;
1: Creating a project
2: Creating Database Connections
3: Creating Data Foundation layer
4: Insert Tables and Joins to DFX layer
5: Creating Business Layer
6: Creating Folders/Classes and Objects in BLX layer
7: Creating Queries to Test Tutorial 6
8: Publish to repository
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List of Values
List of values are distinct list of data values
associated with a universe object. When any
dimension object is created LOV is assigned to
this object automatically. This will very well
affect the performance of the query. When
one needs to filter data in a query based on
specific dimension values, he can view the LOV
of that object and choose the value to filter the
data.
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Publishing Universe
One needs to publish the Universe to repository/server in order to make it
available for WEbI. Before publishing the universe, the connection needs to be
changed to secure mode.
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Select the folder assigned to save the universe and finish.
Now you could see connection short cut in “local projects”
Go to your data foundation layer workspace and change the path of connection to
new secured one.
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Publish your Business layer to repository
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Open your webI client and check whether the universe is available or not.
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