SAP Material PDF Review - BO100

Course Overview .......................................................... ix

Course Goals ..................................................... ix

Course Objectives ................................................. ix

Unit 1: BusinessObjects XI Integration for SAP Solutions....... 1

What's in SAP BusinessObjects Software...........................2

BusinessObjects Enterprise Architecture Overview ................9

Components ........................................................... 19

Unit 2: SAP Connectivity Overview.................................. 29

The SAP Business Objects Tools................................... 30

SAP connectivity options............................................. 34

Supported SAP specific features ................................... 43

Unit 3: Installation of BusinessObjects XI Integration for SAP Solutions ... 55

Prerequisites .......................................................... 57

Installing BusinessObjects XI Integration for SAP Solutions .... 69

Distributed Deployments ............................................ 75

Client-side Components............................................. 78

Post-Installation steps ............................................... = 81

Publishing Integration for Crystal Reports ........................ 93

Unit 4: Query and Adhoc Reporting with Web Intelligence on BW ...... 115

Query and Adhoc Reporting .....................................= ... 116

Web Intelligence and SAP Business Explorer ...................121

Unit 5: OLAP Universes on SAP BW - Part 1 ..................... 147

BW Variables ........................................................149

Mandatory variables .................................................160

SAP variables with default values .................................168

SAP variables with delegated search .............................176

Hierarchies in OLAP Universes ....................................183

Hierarchies and hierarchy node variables in OLAP Universes 185

Simple keydate scenarios...........................................197

Keydate variable dependencies....................................202

Unit 6: OLAP Universes on SAP BW - Part 2 ..................... 207

Multi-structure queries in OLAP Universes .......................208

Smart measures and calculations in OLAP Universes..........220

Updating OLAP Universes..........................................234

Unit 7: Crystal Reports and SAP ERP.............................. 255

Crystal Reports Overview...........................................256

Crystal Reports and SAP tables ...................................260

Crystal Reports and ABAP Functions .............................271

Crystal Reports and Classic InfoSets .............................281

Crystal Reports and InfoSets Queries.............................285

Unit 8: Crystal Reports and SAP BW - Part 1..................... 293

SAP BW Metadata in Crystal Reports.............................294

Crystal Reports with simple SAP BW queries....................303

Crystal Reports against advanced SAP BW queries............312

Unit 9: Crystal Reports and SAP BW - Part 2...... .............. 327

Crystal Reports with SAP BW queries with hierarchies.........328

Crystal Reports against SAP BW cubes ..........................338

Crystal Reports and keydate variables............................34= 2

SAP variable personalization.......................................349=

Unit 10: Voyager with SAP BW ...................................... 355

Creating connections to SAP BW with Voyager .................356

SAP BW metadata in Voyager .....................................365

SAP Variables with Voyager ........................................371

Unit 11: Xcelsius with Live Of= fice ................................... 389

Xcelsius with Live Office ............................................390

Creating an Xcelsius dashboard with Live Office ................409

Unit 12: Xcelsius with Query as a Web Service (QaaWS) on BW ........... 4= 21

Query as a Web Service ............................................422

Xcelsius and Qu= ery as a Web Service ............................432

Unit 13: SAP Security Integration and Creating Publications 461

Server side tru= st and impersonation ..............................463

SAP server configuration ...........................................468

BusinessObjects Enterprise configuration ........................476

Creating a publication ...............................................510

Unit 14: Integrating with SAP Enterprise Portal ................. 523

Integrating BusinessObjects Enterprise content into SAP

Enterprise Portal using iViews .................................525

Portal System landscape for BusinessObjects Enterprise .....53= 0

Creating BusinessObjects Enterprise content iViews ...........543

Creating portal pages ...............................................553

Creating portal= worksets ............................................= 563

Creating portal roles .................................................571

BusinessObjects Enterprise Repository Manager ...............584

Unit 15: Troubleshooting the SAP Connectivity ................. 613

Troubleshooting= Web Intelligence connectivity ..................614

Troubleshooting Crystal Reports connectivity....................622

Additional trou= bleshooting tools....................................627