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Business View Manager

The tool used to manage the business views and the repository is the Business View Manager, a Windows-based development tool that can be installed on local machine. The Business View Manager allows you to simplify data access for your report designers by insulating them from the raw data structures. You can build connections to multiple data sources, join tables, alias field names, create Calculated fields, and then surface this simplified structure as a Business View in Crystal Enterprise.

The architecture provides multiple tiers with each tier performing a different function. This multi tiered system is broken down into three layers: the client, business, and data tiers.

Business Views

Business Views helps administrators pull data together from disparate sources or to link two universes together. Business views are multi tiered semantic layers that sit between report authors and end users and their respective data sources.
Data Foundation

The data foundation component allows the user to join the various tables exposed by the data connection(s) or dynamic data connection(s). When creating a data foundation, the user can browse the data, which will give her a better understanding of the field.

Double-clicking a join in the data foundation will display the join type

Data Connection

The data connection component is where the user establishes a connection to the data source.
Dynamic data connection

The dynamic data connection is an optional component. Dynamic data connection is useful for quickly moving from development to test environments. They can also be used to change languages dynamically.

Note: Database administrator (DBA) can set up the data connections and data foundations, but have no rights to view the business element and business view layers.

Business Elements

Business elements provide a layer on top of the data foundation. When creating a new business element, the Business View Manager prompts the user for a data foundation. Developer can further abstract the complexity of the database by aliasing the fields with business terminology.

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