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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

Editing the query


Queries can be edited in order to adjust to the evolving requirements of the report. Through my work, I have come to know a simple fact: most reports are edited at one stage or another.

Editing is easy and is conducted in the same way a query is created, that is, by adding objects to the query or by removing some of them.

Getting ready

We want to extend the current query definition and add the model dimension to it so that we can analyze the sales data at a more detailed level.

How to do it...

On the report screen, we will click on the Edit button under the Data Access ribbon; this will open the Query Panel.

We will drag-and-drop the Model object and run the query.

The result table will remain the same. In order to present the additional object that we added to the query, we will drag Model from the Available Objects panel to the existing table, as shown in the following screenshot:

The final table will now display the new object as well, showing for each category the model and...

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