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SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook

You're reading from   SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook Over 80 recipes to help you build, customize, and distribute reports using SAP BusinessObjects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782172437
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yoav Yohav Yoav Yohav
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Working with the BI Launch Pad FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating New Queries 3. Working Inside the Report 4. Working with Tables 5. Working with Charts 6. Formatting Reports 7. Filtering the Report Data 8. Merging Data 9. Using Formulas and Variables 10. Using Hyperlinks 11. Using Drill 12. Scheduling Reports 13. Working with BI Workspaces 14. Web Intelligence Rich Client Index

Merging data from different universes


Merging data from different universes is done in the same way that we build several queries from the same universe.

The differences are minor, as follows:

  • The name of the common object can be different (customer ID and customer number)

  • We will be using the Add Query option rather than the duplicate query

How to do it...

We wish to retrieve data from the Sales universe and the Customer Data universe.

From the Customer Data universe, we will choose the Year, Quarter, and the Number of Customers objects using the Add Query button located at the top-right corner of the Query Panel. We will add another query from the Sales universe, and we will retrieve the Year, Quarter, and the Sales revenue objects, as shown in the following screenshot:

After running the queries, we will get the following two tables:

We will merge the Year common dimension and drag the common dimension object, along with the two measures, to a new report tab, as shown in the following screenshot...

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