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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

Extending the data synchronization


As we saw in the previous recipe, queries can be unequal in terms of numbers of common dimensions.

As an axiom, we can claim that the more uncommon dimension objects we have, the more complex it is to display the common data.

In such cases, we will require additional functionality in order to display the common data.

In general, when we have more than one uncommon dimension object, we get a notification while trying to drag it into the table that is incompatible.

Let's have a look at such a case and learn how to resolve it.

Getting ready

We will create two queries based on the Data Warehouse universe: a Sales Revenue per Client Name and Client Country query, and another query that will fetch the Client Name and the Sale Date, as shown in the following screenshot:

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. We will merge the Client Name dimension object and drag it along with the client country name.

  2. When we try to add the Sale Date as well, we will get the notification...

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