Supervisor Questions

1. What is repository? A Business Objects repository is a set of data structures stored on a database. A repository makes it possible to share the resources necessary for client/server architecture. 2. What are privileges? 3. What is versatile user? A versatile user is a customized user who may be given access by a supervisor to any combination of Business Objects products. 4. What is BCA & its Functions? BROADCAST AGENT is a software product which empowers users of WEBINTELLIGENCE and BUSINESSOBJECTS e-business intelligence software to process and distribute documents automatically and securely at scheduled dates and times. BROADCAST AGENT has a scalable, secure, e-business-enabled architecture, and represents a generational advance over its predecessor DAS (Document Agent Server). Functions

5. Report Bursting & Fail over in BCA? If youre a power user with rights to all types of documents and database connections, you may not want all the people on the distribution list for a document youre sending to see the same information as you. Report bursting lets you automatically generate a version of a document based on the profile of each person who will receive it. Failover ensures that BROADCAST AGENT automatically restarts tasks which fail, if a server machine crashes. BROADCAST AGENT provides two types of failover: When a task fails, a BROADCAST AGENT component called the Scheduler automatically starts the task again on another server if necessary. If the Scheduler itself fails, BROADCAST AGENT automatically restarts it. 6. Types of users-define each of them? 7. What is domain & types? 8. What is channel? A channel is a Web site that uses push technology, also known as Webcasting, to keep subscribers abreast of up-to-date information. Each BUSINESSOBJECTS channel is associated with a BROADCAST AGENT, itself associated with a user group in the Business Objects repository. One BROADCAST AGENT can have several channels.

9. What is Time stamp in BCA? This authorized login time is called a timestamp. There are three types of timestamp, and they can be combined to allow powerful and flexible control of authorized login times. 10. How to assign a job/document to a user?

Designer Question
1. What is universe? A universe is a business-oriented mapping of the data structure found in databases: tables, columns, joins, etc. A universe is a set of classes and objects intended for a specific application or group of users. A universe can represent any specific application, system, or group of users. For example, a universe can relate to a department in a company such as marketing or accounting. A universe can also pertain to a section within a department or just about any set of organized procedures such as a payroll or inventory system. A universe consists of a set of objects, grouped by classes. 2. Explain class, object, Join, loop, Cardinality, Traps, Alias, Context, Hierarchy, Grouping, Level? Class : A class is a logical grouping of objects within a universe. In general, the name of a class reflects a business concept that conveys the category or type of objects. A class can be further divided into subclasses. An object is the most refined component in a universe. It maps to data or a derivation of data in the database.

Object

For the purposes of multidimensional analysis, objects are qualified as one of three types:
dimension, detail, or measure.

Dimension objects are the parameters for the analysis. Dimensions typically relate to a hierarchy such as geography, product, or time. Detail objects provide a description of a dimension but are not the focus of the analysis. Measure objects convey numeric information by which a dimension object can be measured. Join : A join is a relational operation that causes two or more tables with a common domain to be combined into a single table. The purpose of joins is to restrict the result set of a query run against multiple tables.

DESIGNER supports the following types of joins: Equi-joins Theta joins Outer joins Shortcut joins Definitions An equi-join is based on the equality between the values in the column of one table and the values in the column of another. Because the same column is present in both tables, the join synchronizes the two tables. Thetas join links tables based on a relationship other than equality between two columns. An outer join links two tables, one of which has rows that do not match those in the common column of the other table. Shortcut joins can be used in schemas containing redundant join paths leading to the same result, regardless of direction. Loop : In a relational database, a loop occurs when joins form multiple paths between lookup tables. In a database schema, a loop can be identified as a closed path. Cardinality expresses the minimum and maximum number of instances of an entity B that can be associated with an instance of an entity A. The minimum and the maximum number of instances can be equal to 0, 1, or N.

Cardinality

Traps Alias

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In SQL an alias is an alternative name for a table. The purpose of aliases is to resolve structural issues in a database arising from SQL limitations. A context is a rule by which determines which of two paths can be chosen when more than one path is possible in the database. A hierarchy is an ordered series of related dimensions. An example of a hierarchy is Geography, which may group dimensions such as Country, Region, and City.

Context Hierarchy

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3. Strategies-Built in & External? A strategy is a script that reads structural information from a database or flat file.
Built-in strategies:

Objects Creation strategy, which tells DESIGNER how to define classes and objects automatically from the databases tables and columns Joins Creation strategy, which tells DESIGNER how to define joins automatically from the databases tables and columns Table Browser strategy, which tells DESIGNER how to read the table and column structures from the databases data dictionary 4. Where the following things will store - Universe, Hierarchy, Aggregates, joins, Strategies? 5. Types of Data Connections-explain each? 6. How to publish in corporate documents? 7. How to send a universe to a particular user? 8. How to do import/export? 9. What is flow when design a universe? 10. Types of objects-explain each? 11. What all are @functions-explain each? 12. Display setting of-Cardinality, no of rows, type in table structure? 13. Types of pane in Designer? Universe, Object, Left, Right, Structure 14. How to link two universe and types of links? Linked universes are universes that share common components such as parameters, classes, objects, or joins. Among linked universes, one universe is said to be the kernel or master universe while the others are the derived universes. A kernel or master universe represents a re-usable library of components. Derived universes may contain some or all the components of the kernel or master universe, in addition to any components that have been added to it. The kernel approach: With the kernel approach, one universe contains the core components. These are the components common in all universes. The derived universes that you create from this kernel universe contain these core components as well as their own specific components. The master approach: In this approach, one master universe holds all possible components. In the universes derived from this master, certain components are hidden; in other words, the components visible in the derived universes are a subset of the master universe. The component approach: It involves merging two or more universes into one universe. 15. How to restrict query execution time? 16. How to restrict query fetching data?

17. Incompatible objects? When an object is at a lower level of aggregation than the table it is incompatible with table. 18. Aggregate awareness? Aggregate awareness is a feature of DESIGNER that makes use of aggregate tables in a database. These are tables that contain precalculated data. The purpose of these tables is to enhance the performance of SQL transactions; they are thus used to speed up the execution of queries.