SAP Business Objects 4.0 (SP02) Information Design Tool (Universe Designer) Creating Business Layer Creating Folders/Classes and Objects in BLX layer Creating Queries to Test

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 Tutorial 3
7: Creating Queries to Test
8: Publish to repository
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2. INFORMATION DESIGN TOOL TUTORIAL 3
Working with Business Layer
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There are four building blocks in Business layer
Folders/Classes
They act like containers for similar or related objects. Similar to Dimension
Tables in BW Star Schema
Dimension
They acts as key in a query and maps to one or more columns or functions
in the database. Similar to Characteristics in BW
Detail
Provides details/information about a particular dimension. Similar to
Attributes.
Measure
Contains aggregate functions that maps to statistics in the database. Similar
to Keyfigures in BW
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4. INFORMATION DESIGN TOOL TUTORIAL 3
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5. INFORMATION DESIGN TOOL TUTORIAL 3
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Folders/Classes
Dimension
Detail
Measure
For checking the values, we could use Queries from Business Layer
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