David Lai's Business Intelligence Blog

Understanding Business Objects Inheritance

When setting up user and group rules, it is important to understand inheritance and how inheritance works.  Otherwise you may run into unexpected access rights for your groups and users. Global to object level hierarchy By default, groups and users will inherit rights from the highest level. The highest level starts at the Global Settings level.  The second level is the folder level; and finally...

Xcelsius 2008 advanced workshop

Join the Xcelsius gurus, Mike Alexander (Author, Crystal Xcelsius For Dummies/ Founder, Data Pig Technologies) and Mico Yuk (Founder, Everything Xcelsius / Xcelsius Gurus Network) for a 2-day Xcelsius 2008 advanced workshop this upcoming March 2010 in Dallas, TX! The workshop which contains a wide array of advanced Xcelsius tips and techniques sold out when it was first held in March of 2009 and...

Understanding Business Objects Access Levels

Understanding the Business Objects security model will enable you to map out a content management strategy for your organization.  Visit my previous post at http://davidlai101.com/blog/2008/11/06/content-management-planning-in-business/ after understanding user access levels and inheritance to setup your content. In this article we’ll go through the Business Objects Enterprise Access Levels. There...

Fusion Charts Wrapper Online Guide

Here’s the online guide to the Fusion Charts Wrapper found at http://davidlai101.com/blog/2010/02/02/fusion-charts-java-wrapper-updated/ If you just need the JavaDocs, please go to http://davidlai101.com/fusioncharts-javadoc/ Steps to build a Fusion Chart in Java Please ensure that you have example.jsp and example_alternative.jsp open in order to follow the steps below to build a fusion graph. If...

Fusion Charts Java Wrapper Updated

Fusion Charts Java Wrapper v1.0 released I’ve updated the fusion charts java wrapper that I released in a previous post, however many people were having problems getting to work, so I’ve changed some stuff around and updated the wrapper with clear instructions on getting it to work for everyone. The FusionCharts wrapper requires Java 1.5+ in order to run so make sure you have this set in...