Businessobjects enterprise

BusinessObjects Enterprise InfoView User's Guide

BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1

Copyright

© 2009 SAP® BusinessObjects™. All rights reserved. SAP BusinessObjects and its logos, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports®, SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Mart™, SAP BusinessObjects Data Insight™, SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence™, SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts®, SAP BusinessObjects WatchlistSecurity™, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence®, and Xcelsius® are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects, an SAP company and/or affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. SAP® is a registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. 2009-05-25

ContentsChapter 1 Welcome to BusinessObjects Enterprise 13 About this documentation..........................................................................14 Who should use this documentation?........................................................14 Chapter 2 Getting Started 15

Overview....................................................................................................16 What's new inBusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1?...................................17 Logging on to InfoView..............................................................................18 To log on to InfoView............................................................................19 InfoView.....................................................................................................20 Headerpanel........................................................................................22 Workspace panel..................................................................................22 Document List......................................................................................23 InfoView Workspace toolbar.................................................................23 Treepanel............................................................................................24 Details panel.........................................................................................24 Recommended reading.............................................................................25 Viewing objects....................................................................................25Publishing and managing objects........................................................25 Crystal Reports Server recommended reading.........................................26 How to access InfoView.......................................................................26 How to view files...................................................................................26 How to schedulefiles...........................................................................26 How to organize files............................................................................27 How to use Discussions.......................................................................28

BusinessObjects Enterprise InfoView User's Guide

3

Contents

Chapter 3

Setting Preferences

29Overview....................................................................................................30 General preferences..................................................................................30 To set general preferences...................................................................30 Web Intelligence preferences....................................................................32Selecting Web Intelligence viewing preferences..................................33 Selecting a creation/editing tool...........................................................34 Selecting a default universe.................................................................36 Selecting your drill options...................................................................36 Selecting an MS Excel...