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Michael Welter: PS Consultant Company: Claraview, a division of Teradata Joined Claraview in March, 2011 Prior to that I worked for Westbay Solutions Group/Idhasoft for 8 years Can I help with your BO Over 11 years experience with BusinessObjects issues? BusinessObjects Certified Professional
> BusinessObjects Enterprise > Web Intelligence
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Agenda
Universe Date Prompt: Default to Yesterday Web Intelligence Merge Dimension Tips Query Performance Tuning
> > > > Query Stripping Schedule Purging Index Awareness Pushing Transformations
Security Tips
But first . . .
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Ive seen some convoluted solutions, but havent been impressed. Of course, universe prompts are based around the @prompt function, so lets review the syntax.
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Tip 4: Extend merged dimension values has a similar effect of using the merged dimension.
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The bad news: Automatic query stripping only works with OLAP data sources The good news: BI 4.0 will have automatic query stripping for all data sources Until then . . . Do it manually.
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Note: If users dont select from the LOV, the index will not be used!
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Security Tips
SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.x uses an Object Oriented Security Model Everything is an object to which rights can be granted
> > > > > > Universes Folders Documents Users Groups Servers
Try not to get confused by this: In the CMC, the User Security screen of a users profile has nothing to do with that users rights.
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Security Tips
Starting at the root: How do you deny access by default without creating too much work?
> Go into User Security for the root folder (All Folders) > Go into Advanced Settings > Set the View Objects right as follows:
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Security Tips
Beware of Everyone! Remember: Everyone is a member of the Everyone group Any rights you grant, or deny, to the Everyone group, applies to you, too As a rule, the Everyone group should have access to nothing
> This means using Not Specified > Never use Denied
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Security Tips
Dual-ing with Security Use a Dual Security Model
> Avoids duplicating security settings
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Security Tips
Back Away From The Users Never set security for an individual user! Set security only for groups, then add members to the groups Never set security for an individual user! Even if one user has special security needs, create a group for that one user
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Questions?
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> Business Intelligence > Various Platforms
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