54.What are the components of the Designer interface?

In Designer, you create a universe using three areas: the Universe pane the Structure pane the Table Browser The Universe pane displays the components of the universe from the point of view of BusinessObjects; that is the classes, objects, and conditions. The Structure pane reflects the underlying database structure of the universe in cluding the tables, columns, and joins. The Table Browser is the component that lets you create the classes and objects of the universe from the tables and columns of a database. 55.What are the visualization options available? Designer contains a variety of features for organizing and viewing the tables an d columns in the Structure pane. Among these features are: List Mode, which adds three panes to the Structure pane. These panes are for vie wing the names of tables, joins, and contexts. When you click a component in a p ane, its corresponding graphical representation in the schema is highlighted. Graphic options, which let you customize the shape or appearance of the tables, columns, joins, and cardinalities in the Structure pane. Arrange tables, a feature that reorganizes the tables in the Structure p ane so as to produce an orderly display. Gridlines, a command that displays a grid, which you can use to al ign tables in the Structure pane. Table (Column) Values, commands that display the data values associated with a particular table or column. 56.Create a database connection 1 Select the Connections command from the Tools menu. 2 Click the Add button. 3 In the Add a connection dialog box, click the name of the network driver , then click OK.connection dialog box specific to your RDBMS appears. It is made up of two tabs: Login and Advanced. In each tab, the parameters shown depend on the network driver you selected. For more information, click . 4 Type or select the connection parameters in the appropriate boxes, and c lick OK.Connections dialog box appears once again. It displays the connection yo u just created. 5 Click OK.

57.Modify a database connection 1 Select the Connections command from the Tools menu. 2 Click the connection. 3 Click the Edit button. 4 In the dialog box, type or select the connection parameters in the appro priate boxes, and click ok.The Connections dialo g box appears once again. It displays the connection you just modified. 5 Click OK. 58.Delete a database connection 1 2 Select the Connections command from the Tools menu. Click a previously defined connection.

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Click the Remove button.dialog box prompts you to confirm the action. Click Yes.

59.How do you specify strategies? A strategy is a script that automatically extracts structural information from a database. Designer provides a number of default strategies you can use. These a re strategies for extracting joins, detecting cardinalities, and creating defaul t classes and objects. Options for indicating default strategies are located in the Database tab of the Options dialog box. You can also create your own strategies. Such strategies are referred to as exte rnal strategies. With an external strategy, you can specify the exact way that o bjects and joins are to be extracted from the database structure. The strategy y ou use, for example, can be a script generated from a CASE Access tool. An exter nal strategy is specific to one RDBMS. 60.Specify default strategies 1 2 3 Select the Options command from the Tools menu. Click the Database tab. In the Default Creation box, select the default strategies you want.

Option Description Extract joins with tables. Retrieves tables with the joins that link them a ccording to a join strategy. Detect cardinalities in joins. Detects the cardinalities inherent in the joins. Create default classes and objects from tables. Causes classes and objects to be generated in the Universe pane when you insert tables in the Structure pane. If you select one or more options, Designer uses the corresponding strategies sp ecified in the Strategies tab of the Universe Parameters dialog box: Option Description Objects The strategy creates classes, and names them based on the tables in the database; it also creates objects, and names them based on the columns in the da tabase. It replaces all underscore characters (_) with spaces. Joins From the list box, select a join strategy. A description is displayed be low the name of the current strategy. Tables Reads the table structure from the database system tables. 61.How do you specify external strategies? With an external strategy, you can specify the exact way that objects and joins are to be extracted from the database structure.All external strategies are cont ained within the same text file. The name of this text file is indicated in the .prm file specific to your RDBMS. In the .prm file, the strategy file is declare d as follows: STG=[StrategyFileName] where StrategyFileName is the name of the strategy file. An external strategy, whether for objects or for joins, is made ing sections: a name and description (These are visible in the Strategies tab Parameters dialog box.) a type parameter: object or join an SQL parameter or file parameter an optional parameter that points to a connection other e connection. An external strategy can be based on SQL or a file. After you have set up external strategies, you can specify them

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