David Lai's Business Intelligence Blog

Preventing Chasm and Fan Traps!

In this article I would like to talk about Chasm traps and Fan traps. These are problems that we often experience while building universes and reports. When encountering these traps, one may wonder what is going on? How come my sum statements arent adding up correctly? Or why am I missing some rows? A properly designed universe will help avoid these problems. In addition, a good understanding about...

Content Management planning in Business Objects Enterprise

Proper content management planning is a critical element in the design process of a Business Objects enterprise system, unfortunately because of tight deadlines and lack of experience, many times there is not enough time spent here and users are left with a system that’s unorganized and tough to maintain. I have experienced this first hand so I would like to write about some simple measures to...

All you need to know about opendoc

I’ve seen quite alot of postings in the Business Objects forum on calling the opendoc function from either a web intelligence report or Xcelsius dashboard. You can download the pdf instructions on all the opendoc parameters here opendoc detailed instructions I’ve also provided instructions on drilling down to a Web Intelligence document from Xcelsius here And an Xcelsius open doc worksheet...