SAP Business Objects 4.0 (SP02) Beginners guide to Web Intelligence Data Restrictions (Filters)

1. Web Intelligence
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Beginners guide to Web Intelligence
1. Introduction to Web Intelligence
2. Documents and Queries
3. Data Restrictions
4. Creating Web Intelligence Reports
5. Enhancing and Formatting Reports
6. Formulas and Variables
7. Synchronizing multiple Sources
8. Analyzing Data and Managing Reports
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Restricting data using Query filter
Query filters are used to restrict the data obtained from a query with respect to
business requirement. A query filter has three elements;
Object
The column of data to which filter is applied
Operator
Specifies the relationship between object and operand
Operand
The object column value that needs to be filtered
There are four types of Query filters;
Pre-Defined Query filters
These are created in universe and can be accessed in WEBi.
Single and Multi Value filters
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Prompted filters
This will ask the user for filter subset, every time the data or the report gets
refreshed. User can enter the prompt either by selecting values or by
typing. Prompt can be defined for any object (dimension, measure or
detail) in the query view.
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Multiple filters or Complex filters
This will use more than one filter joined with “AND” or “OR” conditions or a
combination of both.
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