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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

Working with report parts

As we mentioned in the introduction, there are mainly two types of workspaces. In this section, we will demonstrate how to create a report data workspace.

Along with the option to connect to a report, we can actually create a view to a specific report part: a table or a chart that is displayed in one of the report tabs.

This feature is very flexible as we can focus on just the report part we are interested in instead of using the entire report, and on the other hand, we don't need to create another report that will fit exactly to our workspace requirements either.

Getting ready

We will create a workspace that will display two different charts from different reports and data sources, centralizing and unifying them in one workspace.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. We first create a two-column workspace and drag the Sales Analysis report from the Sales folder in the Public Modules library into the first column:
    How to do it...
  2. As soon as the report is open, we are able...
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