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Getting Started Creating BI workspaces
■ SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0
2011-04-14
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Contents
Introduction.............................................................................................................................5Chapter 1
BI workspaces.........................................................................................................................51.1
Prerequisites............................................................................................................................51.2
What does this tutorial cover?..................................................................................................61.3
Modules in BI workspace........................................................................................................9Chapter 2
Creating Modules.................................................................................................................11Chapter 3
Creating modules using Dashboard Design models...............................................................113.1
Creating modules using Web Intelligence...............................................................................123.2
Creating and Designing BI workspaces................................................................................13Chapter 4
Designing a corporate BI workspace......................................................................................134.1
Before you begin....................................................................................................................134.1.1
Lesson 1: Creating a BI workspace folder..............................................................................134.1.2
Lesson 2: Creating a BI workspace........................................................................................144.1.3
Setting the BI workspace preferences....................................................................................154.1.4
Lesson 3: Creating a tab in a BI workspace............................................................................164.1.5
Lesson 4: Creating a sub tab in a BI workspace.....................................................................174.1.6
Adding a text module to the BI workspace sub tab.................................................................184.1.7
Adding a web page module to the sub tab..............................................................................204.1.8
Adding a viewer to the BI workspace sub tab.........................................................................214.1.9
Content linking......................................................................................................................23Chapter 5
Linking modules using content linking.....................................................................................235.1
Lesson 5: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Dashboard Design
module...................................................................................................................................23
5.1.1
Lesson 6: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Web Intelligence
module...................................................................................................................................25
5.1.2
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Viewing what you have accomplished..................................................................................27Chapter 6
To learn more about modules and BI workspaces................................................................29Chapter 7
More Information...................................................................................................................31Appendix A
Index 33
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Contents
Introduction
This tutorial shows how to use SAP BusinessObjects BI workspaces to design and build BI workspaces
and modules that contain SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Design models and SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence documents.
Note:
For information about creating Dashboard Design models and Web Intelligence documents, refer to
the Dashboard Design and Web Intelligence documentation.
This tutorial shows you how to do the following:
• Create public or personal BI workspaces that contain multiple navigation lists and viewer modules.
• Create public or personal BI workspaces with modules that contain Dashboard Design models and
Web Intelligence documents.
• Link content between modules created using Dashboard Design models and Web Intelligence
documents.
1.1 BI workspaces
BI workspaces is an SAP BusinessObjects application that helps you track your business activities and
performance using modules (templates for data) and BI workspaces (viewing data in one or more
modules). Modules and BI workspaces provide information needed to adjust business rules as conditions
change. BI workspaces also provides the following features:
• Tab-based browsing
• Page creation
• A point and click application builder
• Content linking between modules for in-depth data analysis
1.2 Prerequisites
Prerequisites
As a prerequisite, you need to do the following:
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• Install SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0.
• Have access to Applications > BI workspace from BI launch pad.
• Have permissions to create folders and store BI workspaces to the "Public Folders" or "My Favorites"
nodes in the "Documents" tab.
• Ensure that the source and target Dashboard Design modules, and Web Intelligence documents
have been created and made available.
1.3 What does this tutorial cover?
This tutorial guides you through the basic steps to get started building BI workspaces, modules, and
linking modules.
BI workspaces scenario
As a sales manager for eFashion Corporation, you will use the eFashion sample universe to create a
BI workspace. You will create a BI workspace that offers up-to-date sales information and save it as a
corporate BI workspace in the "Public Folders" node. You can then use this BI workspace to share it
with the CEO, Vice President, and other sales managers. Your corporate BI workspace will include the
following:
• A BI workspace that contains a Dashboard Design model and Web Intelligence document that you
have created.
• A BI workspace tab that contains reports showing store revenue and store sales vs profit margins.
• A sub tab that contains a web page module and a viewer module.
• A BI workspace that links content dynamically in a source and target Dashboard Design models and
Web Intelligence documents.
Using this tutorial, you learn how to:
• Create a BI workspace that uses tabs and sub tabs, and insert modules.
• Use the content linking feature to link content dynamically between a source Dashboard Design
module and target Dashboard Design module, or a Web Intelligence document.
• Make the BI workspace available to your manager.
Lessons offered in the tutorial
This tutorial covers the following lessons:
Learn ....Chapter
Lesson 1: Creating a BI workspace folder
Lesson 2: Creating a BI workspace
Lesson 3: Creating a tab in a BI workspace
Lesson 4: Creating a sub tab in a BI workspace
4: Creating and Design-
ing BI workspaces
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Learn ....Chapter
Lesson 5: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target
Dashboard Design module
Lesson 6: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target
Web Intelligence module
5: Content Linking
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Modules in BI workspace
Modules are templates into which you insert the data that you want to view in your BI workspace. A BI
workspace is composed of one or more modules. Some of the most commonly used modules are:
• A Navigation List module
• Web Page module
• Viewer module
• Text module
• A Dashboard Design model
• A Web Intelligence document
• A Crystal Reports report
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Modules in BI workspace
Creating Modules
Before you start creating a BI workspace, you will create modules and Web Intelligence documents
using Dashboard Design and Web Intelligence.
You will also create a public folder in the "Documents" tab of BI launch pad. In this tutorial, you are
creating a BI workspace that is available for others to view, which is stored in the "Public Folders".
You will save the Dashboard Design modules and Web Intelligence documents in the "corporate"
category of the "Public Folders " in BI launch pad.
3.1 Creating modules using Dashboard Design models
You can create Dashboard Design models or visualizations, which will be used as modules in a BI
workspace using Dashboard Design. To learn how to create Dashboard Design models using the legacy
data connections, such as the "Portal", "FS Command", and "External Interface" components, refer to
the following topics in the Dashboard Design and Presentation Design User's Guide:
• 5.2.1.7 Configuring Portal Data connections
• 5.2.1.9 To configure FSCommand connections
• 5.2.1.11 To configure External Interface connections
You will then export the models to the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform repository.
The following table describes the various types of source and target modules that can be created using
Dashboard Design models.
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Target Dashboard Design ModuleSource Dashboard Design Module
Portal consumer componentPortal provider component
Portal componentFS Command component
External Interface/Portal/FS Command compo-
nents
External Interface/Portal/FS Command compo-
nents
3.2 Creating modules using Web Intelligence
You can create Web Intelligence documents, which will be used as modules in a BI workspace using
Web Intelligence. To learn how to create Web Intelligence documents, refer to the SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence guide:
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Creating and Designing BI workspaces
4.1 Designing a corporate BI workspace
In this lesson you learn how to do the following:
• Create a BI workspace folder.
• Create a BI workspace.
• Set BI workspace preferences.
• Add tabs and sub tabs to a BI workspace.
• Add a text, web page, and viewer module to a BI workspace.
• Perform content linking between modules.
4.1.1 Before you begin
You can build BI workspaces in BI launch pad in one of the following ways from the BI launch pad
homepage and toolbar:
• Applications > BI workspace from the homepage.
• My Applications > BI workspace from the homepage.
A BI workspace can contain several tabs and sub tabs, which you can add, move, and copy from one
BI workspace to another.
4.1.2 Lesson 1: Creating a BI workspace folder
1. Log on to BI launch pad and click Documents.
2. In the "Folders" tree, click Public Folders.
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3. Click New > Folder.
4. In the "Create Folder" window, enter a name for the folder.
For example, enter "Corporate BI workspace".
5. Click OK.
Note:
You will use the "Corporate BI workspace" folder that you created and saved to the "Public Folders"
list.
You can also store new folders in the "My Favorites" node and store BI workspaces. You can then
copy these BI workspaces created in the "My Favorites" node to the "Public Folders" node so that
everyone can access them. You can create new categories in the "Personal Categories" node.
You are ready to create and store BI workspaces and modules.
4.1.3 Lesson 2: Creating a BI workspace
1. In BI launch pad, click Applications > BI workspace or click My Applications > BI workspace.
The New BI workspace window appears.
2.
On the BI workspace toolbar, click Save as .
The "Save as" window appears with the "My Documents" node displayed by default.
3. In the left pane, click Folders.
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The "Public Folders" node appears.
4. Expand Public Folders and click the Corporate BI workspace folder.
5. In the "Filename" field, enter a name for the BI workspace.
For example, enter "eFashion BI workspace".
6. Click Save.
The "Save As Type" field is set to "BI workspace" by default.
The BI workspace opens to its home tab. The tab uses the style you chose as the default style in
the BI launch pad Preferences. You can define a new style for your BI workspace using "Properties".
7. Click the arrow next to the "eFashion BI workspace" and select Properties.
The "Properties" window appears.
8. In the "Choose style sheet", select stylesheet of your choice.
The "Selected style sheet" icon changes to the stylesheet format displayed.
9. Click OK.
You will not see the difference in style sheets until you add objects to your BI workspace.
You are now going to set preferences and add tabs and sub tabs to this BI workspace.
4.1.4 Setting the BI workspace preferences
eFashion BI workspaces generally use specific visual styles, so you will set the default workspace
preference, so that you do not have to select this style each time you create a BI workspace tab or sub
tab.
1. On the BI launch pad toolbar, click Preferences.
2. Expand BI workspaces.
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3. From the "Select a default style to use when creating a new page" list, select Demo.
Demo is now the default style for each BI workspace.
4. For "Define Grid Properties", activate Snap to grid.
Grids help you align objects in workspaces.
5. For "Gridline", select Medium.
6. Leave the other preferences unchanged, and click Save & Close.
4.1.5 Lesson 3: Creating a tab in a BI workspace
Tabs and sub tabs are easy to manage in BI workspaces. You use them to organize and classify your
data. Now you will create a tab in a BI workspace, which contains a navigation list and multiple viewer
modules, and save it in the "Corporate BI workspace" folder.
1. Open the eFashion BI workspace and click Edit BI workspace.
2. Click Add a new tab, next to the "eFashion BI workspace" home tab.
An active text box replaces the "Add a new tab" text.
3. In this text box, enter a name for the new tab and press Enter.
For example, enter Store Revenue Charts .
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4. Click the Store Revenue Charts tab.
5. In the "Module Library", click Templates and drag Navigation List module to the first column of the
BI workspace layout.
The "Navigation List" module appears in the BI workspace layout.
6. Click Public Modules and drag Store Sales vs Profit Margins to the second BI workspace column.
The "Store Sales vs Profit Margins" module is from an existing list of modules.
7. Click Templates and drag Viewer module to the third BI workspace column.
8. Repeat Step 7 to drag and drop another viewer into third column of BI workspace. The viewers can
then be edited to contain various types of data sources or information that can be invoked using
Navigation List.
9. Close Module Library.
Note:
The modules auto-resize when you change the size of the browser.
10. For each module, deactivate the border:
a. Click Edit.
b. On the "Layout" tab, deselect Show window border.
c. Click OK.
11. Save the BI workspace and click Exit Edit Mode.
4.1.6 Lesson 4: Creating a sub tab in a BI workspace
1. Open eFashion BI workspace and click Edit BI workspace.
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2. On the BI workspace toolbar, click Add a new sub tab.
3. In the text box, enter a name for the new sub tab and press Enter.
For example, enter Useful Links.
4. Click the Useful Links sub tab.
5. On the BI workspace toolbar, from the "Layout" list, select Freeform.
You will now add a text module to this BI workspace sub tab.
4.1.7 Adding a text module to the BI workspace sub tab
You need to add informational text to the home tab of your corporate BI workspace that explains the
purpose of the BI workspace.
1. From the "Layout" list on the BI workspace toolbar, click Template.
The "Template" layout defaults to a three column template and the "Predefined templates" appears.
You want to change this.
2. From the "Predefined templates" list, select 2 Rows.
3. Open the "Module Library ".
4. From the "Templates" tab, drag Text Module and place it on the BI workspace layout.
5. Place your mouse over the Text Module.
The Text Module toolbar appears.
6. Click Edit.
The "Edit Contents" dialog box appears.
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7. In the "Enter text or HTML to display" field, enter a text that you want to be displayed on the "Text
Module" layout.
For example, enter This corporate BI workspace offers up-to-date information on eFashion sales
revenues and profits.
8. In the "Layout" tab page, enter a title for the "Text Module".
The default title is "Text Module".
Note:
You can also change the title from the module toolbar, instead of changing it from the "Edit Contents"
dialog box. Place the cursor over the module toolbar. The "Click to edit title " option appears. Now,
when you click the title on the toolbar, a text box is displayed .
Enter a new title for the Text Module.
9. Deselect Show window border, if you want the "Text Module " toolbar to be invisible when you exit
the BI workspace edit mode and click OK.
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Move your mouse over "Text Module ", and then to a different part of the BI workspace. The "Text
Module " toolbar appears only when your mouse is in the text module section, and disappears when
the mouse moves elsewhere on the BI workspace.
You can resize the module so that the text is aligned properly in the "Text Module" layout.
10. Drag the lower, right-hand corner of the "Text Module" to adjust and align the text properly.
The text should look like the example below.
4.1.8 Adding a web page module to the sub tab
Ensure that you are in the "Useful Links" sub tab page of the "eFashion BI workspace".
1. In the "Module Library", click Templates.
2. Drag Web Page Module to the left column of the BI workspace layout.
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Make sure that it snaps to the grid line in the upper-right hand corner by moving the object from left
to right, then up and down.
3. Move your mouse to the "Web Page Module" toolbar and click Edit.
The "Edit Contents" dialog box appears.
4. In the "Enter the web page URL" field, type http://www.sap.com/.
5. Click Layout.
6. In the "Title" field, enter a title for the "Web Page Module".
The default name is "Web Page Module".
You can also change the title from the module toolbar, instead of changing it from the "Edit Contents"
dialog box. Place the cursor over the module toolbar. The "Click to edit title " option appears
. Now, when you click the title on the toolbar, a text box
is displayed. Enter a new title for the Web Page Module.
7. Select A link, so only the name is visible.
8. Click OK.
The SAP website appears in the "Web Page Module" layout.
4.1.9 Adding a viewer to the BI workspace sub tab
Ensure that you are in the "Useful Links" sub tab page of the "eFashion BI workspace".
1. In the "Module Library", click Templates.
2. Drag Viewer to the BI workspace layout.
The "Viewer" module appears on the BI workspace layout.
3. Close "Module Library".
4. Move your mouse over the "Viewer " toolbar and click Edit.
5. In the "Select the document to display" area, click Corporate to select a document to be displayed
in the "Viewer " module.
6. Click Layout .
7. In the "Title" field, enter a title for the "Viewer" module.
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You can also change the title from the module toolbar, instead of changing it from the "Edit Contents"
dialog box. Place the cursor over the module toolbar. The "Click to edit title " option appears. Now,
when you click the title on the toolbar, a text box is displayed .
Enter a new title for the Viewer Module.
8. Deselect Show window border, if you want the "Text Module" toolbar to be invisible when you exit
the BI workspace edit mode and click OK.
The "Viewer" module with the selected list of documents appears.
Note:
Drag the lower, right corner of the"Viewer " to make it larger.
9. Click Save and click OK to confirm the changes made to the BI workspace.
10. Click Exit Edit Mode.
The "Viewer " module appears with the list of documents selected.
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Content linking
5.1 Linking modules using content linking
Interportlet communication enables various data sources to be linked dynamically using the Portal,
FsCommand, and External Interface components. You can create Dashboard Design models,
Web Intelligence documents, or Crystal reports and export them to the SAP BusinessObjects Business
Intelligence platform repository.
These documents will then be embedded in the BI workspaces as modules and are used to interact
with each other by dynamically passing data using the BI workspace content linking feature.
Related Topics
• Lesson 5: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Dashboard Design module
• Lesson 6: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Web Intelligence module
5.1.1 Lesson 5: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target
Dashboard Design module
Before you begin linking modules, you should have the source and target Dashboard Design modules
created and saved in the corporate modules category of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
platform repository.
1. Log on to BI launch pad.
2. Click My Applications > BI workspace.
The "New BI workspace" window with the BI workspace layout, toolbar, and module library is
displayed.
3. On the BI workspace toolbar, click Save As.
The "Save as" dialog box appears.
4. In the "Title" field, enter a name for the BI workspace and save it to one of the folders in the "Public
Folders".
For example, you can enter Interportlet Communication.
The title of the "New BI workspace" changes to "Interportlet Communication".
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5. In "Module Library", click Public Modules.
6. Expand Public Modules and find the Dashboard Design portal provider map module (source) and
Dashboard Design consumer line chart module (target) from the list.
Refer to the Dashboard Design documentation to create the source and target modules.
7. Drag and drop the source and target Dashboard Design modules on the "Interportlet Communication"
BI workspace layout.
The two modules appear on the BI workspace layout.
8. On the BI workspace toolbar, click Content Linking.
The "Content Linking" window with the source and target modules and "Available Connections" table
containing the "Modules" and "Ports" columns appears. The "Available Connections " table shows
the potential source and target modules that can be linked.
9.
Click the "PARAMETER_OUT" indicator next to the source module and drop the cursor on the
"PARAMETER_IN" indicator next to the target module to activate linking between the source
and target modules.
The "LEGACY_IN" and "LEGACY_OUT" indicators appear by default for all the modules in
the content linking page layout.
A dotted line appears while you drag and drop the linking icons between the modules indicating that
you have not finished linking the modules. You should map the parameters of the modules. The
dotted line indicates that no parameters have been mapped between the modules.
10. Click the dotted line between the modules.
The "Parameter Mapping" table with the "Source Parameter" and "Target Parameter" columns
appears.
11. In the "Source Parameter" column of the "Parameter Mapping" table, click click to add Mapping...
drop list and select a parameter.
12. In the "Target Parameter" column of the "Parameter Mapping" table, click click to add Mapping...
drop list and select a parameter.
The parameter pairing between the source and target modules is displayed with a solid line indicating
a fully completed link and mapping.
Note:
You can delete any of the parameter pairings by clicking Delete connection.
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13. Click Save and then click OK to save the BI workspace.
14. Click Exit Edit Mode.
Note:
Click Texas in the Dashboard Design source map module. You will notice that the line charts in
target modules render data for that state. You can also perform granular linking between modules
by selecting the data ranges of the source and target module values displayed.
You have successfully linked two Dashboard Design modules using content linking.
When you click on any state in the map module, the state name is dynamically passed to target modules
and the passed data is displayed.
Related Topics
• Lesson 6: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Web Intelligence module
5.1.2 Lesson 6: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Web
Intelligence module
Before you begin linking modules, you should have the source Dashboard Design module and target
Web Intelligence module created and saved in the corporate modules category of the SAP
BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform repository.
1. Follow steps from 1 to 5 of the Linking content in a source dashboard design module and target
dashboard design module task.
2. Expand Public Modules and find the Dashboard Design portal provider Map module (source) and
Web Intelligence consumer module (target) from the list.
3. Drag and drop the modules in the "Interportlet Communication" BI workspace layout.
4. Follow steps 8 to 14 of the Linking content in a source dashboard design module and target dashboard
design module task.
5. In the Dashboard Design source map module, click Texas. You will notice that the line charts in
target modules render data for that state.
You have successfully linked modules created using Dashboard Design model and Web Intelligence
document through content linking.
When you click on any state in the map module, the state name is dynamically passed to the target
Web Intelligence document and the passed data is displayed.
Related Topics
• Lesson 5: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Dashboard Design module
• Creating modules using Web Intelligence
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Viewing what you have accomplished
Congratulations! you have completed creating your first corporate BI workspace . Close the BI workspace
and return to BI launch pad to view what you have completed.
Go to Documents > Public Folders > Corporate BI workspace.
Inside the "Corporate BI workspace" folder, you can find the following documents:
• eFashion BI workspace
• Store Revenue Charts
• Store Sales vs Profit Margins
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To learn more about modules and BI workspaces
To learn about modules and BI workspaces, do one of the following:
• Refer to the SAP BusinessObjects BI Workspaces User's Guide, Dashboard Design and Presentation
Design User's Guide, and Performing interactive analysis using the desktop interface for SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence.
• Enroll in SAP BusinessObjects™ BI workspace XI: Designing BI workspaces course.
This course is available as a classroom training and an eLearning lesson.
For details, go to http://www.sap.com.
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More Information
LocationInformation Resource
http://www.sap.com
SAP BusinessObjects product infor-
mation
Navigate to http://help.sap.com/businessobjects and on the "SAP Busi-
nessObjects Overview" side panel click All Products.
You can access the most up-to-date documentation covering all SAP
BusinessObjects products and their deployment at the SAP Help Portal.
You can download PDF versions or installable HTML libraries.
Certain guides are stored on the SAP Service Marketplace and are not
available from the SAP Help Portal. These guides are listed on the Help
Portal accompanied by a link to the SAP Service Marketplace. Customers
with a maintenance agreement have an authorized user ID to access
this site. To obtain an ID, contact your customer support representative.
SAP Help Portal
http://service.sap.com/bosap-support > Documentation
• Installation guides: https://service.sap.com/bosap-instguides
• Release notes: http://service.sap.com/releasenotes
The SAP Service Marketplace stores certain installation guides, upgrade
and migration guides, deployment guides, release notes and Supported
Platforms documents. Customers with a maintenance agreement have
an authorized user ID to access this site. Contact your customer support
representative to obtain an ID. If you are redirected to the SAP Service
Marketplace from the SAP Help Portal, use the menu in the navigation
pane on the left to locate the category containing the documentation you
want to access.
SAP Service Marketplace
https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/community/docupedia
Docupedia provides additional documentation resources, a collaborative
authoring environment, and an interactive feedback channel.
Docupedia
https://boc.sdn.sap.com/
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/businessobjects-sdklibrary
Developer resources
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LocationInformation Resource
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/businessobjects-articles
These articles were formerly known as technical papers.
SAP BusinessObjects articles on
the SAP Community Network
https://service.sap.com/notes
These notes were formerly known as Knowledge Base articles.
Notes
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/forums
Forums on the SAP Community
Network
http://www.sap.com/services/education
From traditional classroom learning to targeted e-learning seminars, we
can offer a training package to suit your learning needs and preferred
learning style.
Training
http://service.sap.com/bosap-support
The SAP Support Portal contains information about Customer Support
programs and services. It also has links to a wide range of technical in-
formation and downloads. Customers with a maintenance agreement
have an authorized user ID to access this site. To obtain an ID, contact
your customer support representative.
Online customer support
http://www.sap.com/services/bysubject/businessobjectsconsulting
Consultants can accompany you from the initial analysis stage to the
delivery of your deployment project. Expertise is available in topics such
as relational and multidimensional databases, connectivity, database
design tools, and customized embedding technology.
Consulting
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Index
C
content linking, visual 23
D
document 25
M
module
dashboard design
Web Intelligence 23
N
navigation list 21
S
Setup Information Page 13
sub tabs 17
T
tabs 15, 16, 20
U
universe queries 11
V
viewer in BI workspace 21
W
Web Intelligence 25
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  • 1. Getting Started Creating BI workspaces ■ SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0 2011-04-14
  • 2. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.SAP, R/3, SAP NetWeaver, Duet, PartnerEdge, ByDesign, SAP Business ByDesign, and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective Copyright logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Crystal Decisions, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius, and other Business Objects products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects S.A. in the United States and in other countries. Business Objects is an SAP company.All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. Data contained in this document serves informational purposes only. National product specifications may vary.These materials are subject to change without notice. These materials are provided by SAP AG and its affiliated companies ("SAP Group") for informational purposes only, without representation or warranty of any kind, and SAP Group shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials. The only warranties for SAP Group products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. 2011-04-14
  • 3. Contents Introduction.............................................................................................................................5Chapter 1 BI workspaces.........................................................................................................................51.1 Prerequisites............................................................................................................................51.2 What does this tutorial cover?..................................................................................................61.3 Modules in BI workspace........................................................................................................9Chapter 2 Creating Modules.................................................................................................................11Chapter 3 Creating modules using Dashboard Design models...............................................................113.1 Creating modules using Web Intelligence...............................................................................123.2 Creating and Designing BI workspaces................................................................................13Chapter 4 Designing a corporate BI workspace......................................................................................134.1 Before you begin....................................................................................................................134.1.1 Lesson 1: Creating a BI workspace folder..............................................................................134.1.2 Lesson 2: Creating a BI workspace........................................................................................144.1.3 Setting the BI workspace preferences....................................................................................154.1.4 Lesson 3: Creating a tab in a BI workspace............................................................................164.1.5 Lesson 4: Creating a sub tab in a BI workspace.....................................................................174.1.6 Adding a text module to the BI workspace sub tab.................................................................184.1.7 Adding a web page module to the sub tab..............................................................................204.1.8 Adding a viewer to the BI workspace sub tab.........................................................................214.1.9 Content linking......................................................................................................................23Chapter 5 Linking modules using content linking.....................................................................................235.1 Lesson 5: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Dashboard Design module...................................................................................................................................23 5.1.1 Lesson 6: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Web Intelligence module...................................................................................................................................25 5.1.2 2011-04-143
  • 4. Viewing what you have accomplished..................................................................................27Chapter 6 To learn more about modules and BI workspaces................................................................29Chapter 7 More Information...................................................................................................................31Appendix A Index 33 2011-04-144 Contents
  • 5. Introduction This tutorial shows how to use SAP BusinessObjects BI workspaces to design and build BI workspaces and modules that contain SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Design models and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence documents. Note: For information about creating Dashboard Design models and Web Intelligence documents, refer to the Dashboard Design and Web Intelligence documentation. This tutorial shows you how to do the following: • Create public or personal BI workspaces that contain multiple navigation lists and viewer modules. • Create public or personal BI workspaces with modules that contain Dashboard Design models and Web Intelligence documents. • Link content between modules created using Dashboard Design models and Web Intelligence documents. 1.1 BI workspaces BI workspaces is an SAP BusinessObjects application that helps you track your business activities and performance using modules (templates for data) and BI workspaces (viewing data in one or more modules). Modules and BI workspaces provide information needed to adjust business rules as conditions change. BI workspaces also provides the following features: • Tab-based browsing • Page creation • A point and click application builder • Content linking between modules for in-depth data analysis 1.2 Prerequisites Prerequisites As a prerequisite, you need to do the following: 2011-04-145 Introduction
  • 6. • Install SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.0. • Have access to Applications > BI workspace from BI launch pad. • Have permissions to create folders and store BI workspaces to the "Public Folders" or "My Favorites" nodes in the "Documents" tab. • Ensure that the source and target Dashboard Design modules, and Web Intelligence documents have been created and made available. 1.3 What does this tutorial cover? This tutorial guides you through the basic steps to get started building BI workspaces, modules, and linking modules. BI workspaces scenario As a sales manager for eFashion Corporation, you will use the eFashion sample universe to create a BI workspace. You will create a BI workspace that offers up-to-date sales information and save it as a corporate BI workspace in the "Public Folders" node. You can then use this BI workspace to share it with the CEO, Vice President, and other sales managers. Your corporate BI workspace will include the following: • A BI workspace that contains a Dashboard Design model and Web Intelligence document that you have created. • A BI workspace tab that contains reports showing store revenue and store sales vs profit margins. • A sub tab that contains a web page module and a viewer module. • A BI workspace that links content dynamically in a source and target Dashboard Design models and Web Intelligence documents. Using this tutorial, you learn how to: • Create a BI workspace that uses tabs and sub tabs, and insert modules. • Use the content linking feature to link content dynamically between a source Dashboard Design module and target Dashboard Design module, or a Web Intelligence document. • Make the BI workspace available to your manager. Lessons offered in the tutorial This tutorial covers the following lessons: Learn ....Chapter Lesson 1: Creating a BI workspace folder Lesson 2: Creating a BI workspace Lesson 3: Creating a tab in a BI workspace Lesson 4: Creating a sub tab in a BI workspace 4: Creating and Design- ing BI workspaces 2011-04-146 Introduction
  • 7. Learn ....Chapter Lesson 5: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Dashboard Design module Lesson 6: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Web Intelligence module 5: Content Linking 2011-04-147 Introduction
  • 9. Modules in BI workspace Modules are templates into which you insert the data that you want to view in your BI workspace. A BI workspace is composed of one or more modules. Some of the most commonly used modules are: • A Navigation List module • Web Page module • Viewer module • Text module • A Dashboard Design model • A Web Intelligence document • A Crystal Reports report 2011-04-149 Modules in BI workspace
  • 11. Creating Modules Before you start creating a BI workspace, you will create modules and Web Intelligence documents using Dashboard Design and Web Intelligence. You will also create a public folder in the "Documents" tab of BI launch pad. In this tutorial, you are creating a BI workspace that is available for others to view, which is stored in the "Public Folders". You will save the Dashboard Design modules and Web Intelligence documents in the "corporate" category of the "Public Folders " in BI launch pad. 3.1 Creating modules using Dashboard Design models You can create Dashboard Design models or visualizations, which will be used as modules in a BI workspace using Dashboard Design. To learn how to create Dashboard Design models using the legacy data connections, such as the "Portal", "FS Command", and "External Interface" components, refer to the following topics in the Dashboard Design and Presentation Design User's Guide: • 5.2.1.7 Configuring Portal Data connections • 5.2.1.9 To configure FSCommand connections • 5.2.1.11 To configure External Interface connections You will then export the models to the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform repository. The following table describes the various types of source and target modules that can be created using Dashboard Design models. 2011-04-1411 Creating Modules
  • 12. Target Dashboard Design ModuleSource Dashboard Design Module Portal consumer componentPortal provider component Portal componentFS Command component External Interface/Portal/FS Command compo- nents External Interface/Portal/FS Command compo- nents 3.2 Creating modules using Web Intelligence You can create Web Intelligence documents, which will be used as modules in a BI workspace using Web Intelligence. To learn how to create Web Intelligence documents, refer to the SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence guide: 2011-04-1412 Creating Modules
  • 13. Creating and Designing BI workspaces 4.1 Designing a corporate BI workspace In this lesson you learn how to do the following: • Create a BI workspace folder. • Create a BI workspace. • Set BI workspace preferences. • Add tabs and sub tabs to a BI workspace. • Add a text, web page, and viewer module to a BI workspace. • Perform content linking between modules. 4.1.1 Before you begin You can build BI workspaces in BI launch pad in one of the following ways from the BI launch pad homepage and toolbar: • Applications > BI workspace from the homepage. • My Applications > BI workspace from the homepage. A BI workspace can contain several tabs and sub tabs, which you can add, move, and copy from one BI workspace to another. 4.1.2 Lesson 1: Creating a BI workspace folder 1. Log on to BI launch pad and click Documents. 2. In the "Folders" tree, click Public Folders. 2011-04-1413 Creating and Designing BI workspaces
  • 14. 3. Click New > Folder. 4. In the "Create Folder" window, enter a name for the folder. For example, enter "Corporate BI workspace". 5. Click OK. Note: You will use the "Corporate BI workspace" folder that you created and saved to the "Public Folders" list. You can also store new folders in the "My Favorites" node and store BI workspaces. You can then copy these BI workspaces created in the "My Favorites" node to the "Public Folders" node so that everyone can access them. You can create new categories in the "Personal Categories" node. You are ready to create and store BI workspaces and modules. 4.1.3 Lesson 2: Creating a BI workspace 1. In BI launch pad, click Applications > BI workspace or click My Applications > BI workspace. The New BI workspace window appears. 2. On the BI workspace toolbar, click Save as . The "Save as" window appears with the "My Documents" node displayed by default. 3. In the left pane, click Folders. 2011-04-1414 Creating and Designing BI workspaces
  • 15. The "Public Folders" node appears. 4. Expand Public Folders and click the Corporate BI workspace folder. 5. In the "Filename" field, enter a name for the BI workspace. For example, enter "eFashion BI workspace". 6. Click Save. The "Save As Type" field is set to "BI workspace" by default. The BI workspace opens to its home tab. The tab uses the style you chose as the default style in the BI launch pad Preferences. You can define a new style for your BI workspace using "Properties". 7. Click the arrow next to the "eFashion BI workspace" and select Properties. The "Properties" window appears. 8. In the "Choose style sheet", select stylesheet of your choice. The "Selected style sheet" icon changes to the stylesheet format displayed. 9. Click OK. You will not see the difference in style sheets until you add objects to your BI workspace. You are now going to set preferences and add tabs and sub tabs to this BI workspace. 4.1.4 Setting the BI workspace preferences eFashion BI workspaces generally use specific visual styles, so you will set the default workspace preference, so that you do not have to select this style each time you create a BI workspace tab or sub tab. 1. On the BI launch pad toolbar, click Preferences. 2. Expand BI workspaces. 2011-04-1415 Creating and Designing BI workspaces
  • 16. 3. From the "Select a default style to use when creating a new page" list, select Demo. Demo is now the default style for each BI workspace. 4. For "Define Grid Properties", activate Snap to grid. Grids help you align objects in workspaces. 5. For "Gridline", select Medium. 6. Leave the other preferences unchanged, and click Save & Close. 4.1.5 Lesson 3: Creating a tab in a BI workspace Tabs and sub tabs are easy to manage in BI workspaces. You use them to organize and classify your data. Now you will create a tab in a BI workspace, which contains a navigation list and multiple viewer modules, and save it in the "Corporate BI workspace" folder. 1. Open the eFashion BI workspace and click Edit BI workspace. 2. Click Add a new tab, next to the "eFashion BI workspace" home tab. An active text box replaces the "Add a new tab" text. 3. In this text box, enter a name for the new tab and press Enter. For example, enter Store Revenue Charts . 2011-04-1416 Creating and Designing BI workspaces
  • 17. 4. Click the Store Revenue Charts tab. 5. In the "Module Library", click Templates and drag Navigation List module to the first column of the BI workspace layout. The "Navigation List" module appears in the BI workspace layout. 6. Click Public Modules and drag Store Sales vs Profit Margins to the second BI workspace column. The "Store Sales vs Profit Margins" module is from an existing list of modules. 7. Click Templates and drag Viewer module to the third BI workspace column. 8. Repeat Step 7 to drag and drop another viewer into third column of BI workspace. The viewers can then be edited to contain various types of data sources or information that can be invoked using Navigation List. 9. Close Module Library. Note: The modules auto-resize when you change the size of the browser. 10. For each module, deactivate the border: a. Click Edit. b. On the "Layout" tab, deselect Show window border. c. Click OK. 11. Save the BI workspace and click Exit Edit Mode. 4.1.6 Lesson 4: Creating a sub tab in a BI workspace 1. Open eFashion BI workspace and click Edit BI workspace. 2011-04-1417 Creating and Designing BI workspaces
  • 18. 2. On the BI workspace toolbar, click Add a new sub tab. 3. In the text box, enter a name for the new sub tab and press Enter. For example, enter Useful Links. 4. Click the Useful Links sub tab. 5. On the BI workspace toolbar, from the "Layout" list, select Freeform. You will now add a text module to this BI workspace sub tab. 4.1.7 Adding a text module to the BI workspace sub tab You need to add informational text to the home tab of your corporate BI workspace that explains the purpose of the BI workspace. 1. From the "Layout" list on the BI workspace toolbar, click Template. The "Template" layout defaults to a three column template and the "Predefined templates" appears. You want to change this. 2. From the "Predefined templates" list, select 2 Rows. 3. Open the "Module Library ". 4. From the "Templates" tab, drag Text Module and place it on the BI workspace layout. 5. Place your mouse over the Text Module. The Text Module toolbar appears. 6. Click Edit. The "Edit Contents" dialog box appears. 2011-04-1418 Creating and Designing BI workspaces
  • 19. 7. In the "Enter text or HTML to display" field, enter a text that you want to be displayed on the "Text Module" layout. For example, enter This corporate BI workspace offers up-to-date information on eFashion sales revenues and profits. 8. In the "Layout" tab page, enter a title for the "Text Module". The default title is "Text Module". Note: You can also change the title from the module toolbar, instead of changing it from the "Edit Contents" dialog box. Place the cursor over the module toolbar. The "Click to edit title " option appears. Now, when you click the title on the toolbar, a text box is displayed . Enter a new title for the Text Module. 9. Deselect Show window border, if you want the "Text Module " toolbar to be invisible when you exit the BI workspace edit mode and click OK. 2011-04-1419 Creating and Designing BI workspaces
  • 20. Move your mouse over "Text Module ", and then to a different part of the BI workspace. The "Text Module " toolbar appears only when your mouse is in the text module section, and disappears when the mouse moves elsewhere on the BI workspace. You can resize the module so that the text is aligned properly in the "Text Module" layout. 10. Drag the lower, right-hand corner of the "Text Module" to adjust and align the text properly. The text should look like the example below. 4.1.8 Adding a web page module to the sub tab Ensure that you are in the "Useful Links" sub tab page of the "eFashion BI workspace". 1. In the "Module Library", click Templates. 2. Drag Web Page Module to the left column of the BI workspace layout. 2011-04-1420 Creating and Designing BI workspaces
  • 21. Make sure that it snaps to the grid line in the upper-right hand corner by moving the object from left to right, then up and down. 3. Move your mouse to the "Web Page Module" toolbar and click Edit. The "Edit Contents" dialog box appears. 4. In the "Enter the web page URL" field, type http://www.sap.com/. 5. Click Layout. 6. In the "Title" field, enter a title for the "Web Page Module". The default name is "Web Page Module". You can also change the title from the module toolbar, instead of changing it from the "Edit Contents" dialog box. Place the cursor over the module toolbar. The "Click to edit title " option appears . Now, when you click the title on the toolbar, a text box is displayed. Enter a new title for the Web Page Module. 7. Select A link, so only the name is visible. 8. Click OK. The SAP website appears in the "Web Page Module" layout. 4.1.9 Adding a viewer to the BI workspace sub tab Ensure that you are in the "Useful Links" sub tab page of the "eFashion BI workspace". 1. In the "Module Library", click Templates. 2. Drag Viewer to the BI workspace layout. The "Viewer" module appears on the BI workspace layout. 3. Close "Module Library". 4. Move your mouse over the "Viewer " toolbar and click Edit. 5. In the "Select the document to display" area, click Corporate to select a document to be displayed in the "Viewer " module. 6. Click Layout . 7. In the "Title" field, enter a title for the "Viewer" module. 2011-04-1421 Creating and Designing BI workspaces
  • 22. You can also change the title from the module toolbar, instead of changing it from the "Edit Contents" dialog box. Place the cursor over the module toolbar. The "Click to edit title " option appears. Now, when you click the title on the toolbar, a text box is displayed . Enter a new title for the Viewer Module. 8. Deselect Show window border, if you want the "Text Module" toolbar to be invisible when you exit the BI workspace edit mode and click OK. The "Viewer" module with the selected list of documents appears. Note: Drag the lower, right corner of the"Viewer " to make it larger. 9. Click Save and click OK to confirm the changes made to the BI workspace. 10. Click Exit Edit Mode. The "Viewer " module appears with the list of documents selected. 2011-04-1422 Creating and Designing BI workspaces
  • 23. Content linking 5.1 Linking modules using content linking Interportlet communication enables various data sources to be linked dynamically using the Portal, FsCommand, and External Interface components. You can create Dashboard Design models, Web Intelligence documents, or Crystal reports and export them to the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform repository. These documents will then be embedded in the BI workspaces as modules and are used to interact with each other by dynamically passing data using the BI workspace content linking feature. Related Topics • Lesson 5: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Dashboard Design module • Lesson 6: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Web Intelligence module 5.1.1 Lesson 5: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Dashboard Design module Before you begin linking modules, you should have the source and target Dashboard Design modules created and saved in the corporate modules category of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform repository. 1. Log on to BI launch pad. 2. Click My Applications > BI workspace. The "New BI workspace" window with the BI workspace layout, toolbar, and module library is displayed. 3. On the BI workspace toolbar, click Save As. The "Save as" dialog box appears. 4. In the "Title" field, enter a name for the BI workspace and save it to one of the folders in the "Public Folders". For example, you can enter Interportlet Communication. The title of the "New BI workspace" changes to "Interportlet Communication". 2011-04-1423 Content linking
  • 24. 5. In "Module Library", click Public Modules. 6. Expand Public Modules and find the Dashboard Design portal provider map module (source) and Dashboard Design consumer line chart module (target) from the list. Refer to the Dashboard Design documentation to create the source and target modules. 7. Drag and drop the source and target Dashboard Design modules on the "Interportlet Communication" BI workspace layout. The two modules appear on the BI workspace layout. 8. On the BI workspace toolbar, click Content Linking. The "Content Linking" window with the source and target modules and "Available Connections" table containing the "Modules" and "Ports" columns appears. The "Available Connections " table shows the potential source and target modules that can be linked. 9. Click the "PARAMETER_OUT" indicator next to the source module and drop the cursor on the "PARAMETER_IN" indicator next to the target module to activate linking between the source and target modules. The "LEGACY_IN" and "LEGACY_OUT" indicators appear by default for all the modules in the content linking page layout. A dotted line appears while you drag and drop the linking icons between the modules indicating that you have not finished linking the modules. You should map the parameters of the modules. The dotted line indicates that no parameters have been mapped between the modules. 10. Click the dotted line between the modules. The "Parameter Mapping" table with the "Source Parameter" and "Target Parameter" columns appears. 11. In the "Source Parameter" column of the "Parameter Mapping" table, click click to add Mapping... drop list and select a parameter. 12. In the "Target Parameter" column of the "Parameter Mapping" table, click click to add Mapping... drop list and select a parameter. The parameter pairing between the source and target modules is displayed with a solid line indicating a fully completed link and mapping. Note: You can delete any of the parameter pairings by clicking Delete connection. 2011-04-1424 Content linking
  • 25. 13. Click Save and then click OK to save the BI workspace. 14. Click Exit Edit Mode. Note: Click Texas in the Dashboard Design source map module. You will notice that the line charts in target modules render data for that state. You can also perform granular linking between modules by selecting the data ranges of the source and target module values displayed. You have successfully linked two Dashboard Design modules using content linking. When you click on any state in the map module, the state name is dynamically passed to target modules and the passed data is displayed. Related Topics • Lesson 6: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Web Intelligence module 5.1.2 Lesson 6: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Web Intelligence module Before you begin linking modules, you should have the source Dashboard Design module and target Web Intelligence module created and saved in the corporate modules category of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform repository. 1. Follow steps from 1 to 5 of the Linking content in a source dashboard design module and target dashboard design module task. 2. Expand Public Modules and find the Dashboard Design portal provider Map module (source) and Web Intelligence consumer module (target) from the list. 3. Drag and drop the modules in the "Interportlet Communication" BI workspace layout. 4. Follow steps 8 to 14 of the Linking content in a source dashboard design module and target dashboard design module task. 5. In the Dashboard Design source map module, click Texas. You will notice that the line charts in target modules render data for that state. You have successfully linked modules created using Dashboard Design model and Web Intelligence document through content linking. When you click on any state in the map module, the state name is dynamically passed to the target Web Intelligence document and the passed data is displayed. Related Topics • Lesson 5: Linking content in a source Dashboard Design module and target Dashboard Design module • Creating modules using Web Intelligence 2011-04-1425 Content linking
  • 27. Viewing what you have accomplished Congratulations! you have completed creating your first corporate BI workspace . Close the BI workspace and return to BI launch pad to view what you have completed. Go to Documents > Public Folders > Corporate BI workspace. Inside the "Corporate BI workspace" folder, you can find the following documents: • eFashion BI workspace • Store Revenue Charts • Store Sales vs Profit Margins 2011-04-1427 Viewing what you have accomplished
  • 28. 2011-04-1428 Viewing what you have accomplished
  • 29. To learn more about modules and BI workspaces To learn about modules and BI workspaces, do one of the following: • Refer to the SAP BusinessObjects BI Workspaces User's Guide, Dashboard Design and Presentation Design User's Guide, and Performing interactive analysis using the desktop interface for SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. • Enroll in SAP BusinessObjects™ BI workspace XI: Designing BI workspaces course. This course is available as a classroom training and an eLearning lesson. For details, go to http://www.sap.com. 2011-04-1429 To learn more about modules and BI workspaces
  • 30. 2011-04-1430 To learn more about modules and BI workspaces
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  • 33. Index C content linking, visual 23 D document 25 M module dashboard design Web Intelligence 23 N navigation list 21 S Setup Information Page 13 sub tabs 17 T tabs 15, 16, 20 U universe queries 11 V viewer in BI workspace 21 W Web Intelligence 25 2011-04-1433