One of the major features being “re-introduced” to the XI product family is Publishing.
This gives you the ability to write a single report, that runs a single query but sends a different “version” of the report to each user.
This is only scraping the surface of the full Publisher functionality, lets have a look at houw you can create your first user targeted publications.
When in doubt, don’t fiddle.
I “forgot” the admin password for my Business Objects XI 3.0 (Demo) environment.
Some searching turned up a “hack” that would resolve this, which involves deleting data from the repository database. One quick delete later and my installation is broken.
Of course if this was in the “real world”
No worries, I just did an uninstall and re-install – a couple of hours work, but it is work I didn’t have to redo.
Lesson Learned – Treat even your demo system like production!
I know that I covered this in my video post, but I hated the quality of the video, so here is a similar post with pictures (click on hem to see larger versions).
You no longer need to splash out on fancy dashboarding software (although Xcelsius is good !) to quickly highlight when your data is changing. A new feature in Business Objects Web Intelligence (WebI) 3.0 allows you to add this feature to any document.