Brio Basics+: An Overview From An End User Perspective

Worldwide Consolidated Accounting –Ed Janeczko
Brio Basics+
An Overview from an End

User Perspective
© 2008 IBM Corporation

Worldwide Consolidated Accounting – Ed Janeczko
What is Brio
 Brio is a Desktop Application
 Brio is Microsoft Excel with “SQL” behind it
 Brio has similar function as Microsoft Access
 Create Spreadsheets from Results and/or Pivots
 Break Totals and Grand Totals like QMF
 Create Categories of data columns within the Results
 Create Computed Items (If …Then statements)
 Outstanding Pivot Function
 Drill Down in Brio Charts and Pivots
 Copy a Brio Chart into Microsoft PowerPoint
 Create BrioQuery Data Model
 Import Excel Spreadsheets – Local Result Tables
 Import SQL query into Brio
 Use QMF Save Data Tables
 Using the same QMF id and password
2 BRIO Basics+ © 2008 IBM Corporation

Table of Contents
1. Getting started
2. Modifying your query
3. Joins
4. Additional Limits
5. Computed Items
6. Pivot section
7. Report section
8. Saving your outcome
9. Hints and tips
10. Union Queries in Brio
11. Using QMF Tables or Importing Excel Files
12. Subqueries in Brio
13. Importing QMF Queries into Brio
14. Using ‘Local Results’ in Brio
15. Using the EIS Section

1. Getting Started
 Start BRIO Explorer
– Go to Start  All Programs  Brio  Brio Enterprise Explorer
– Open the OCE file
 Click on “Browse” next to Recent Catalog Extensions
 Click on “Open Catalog Extensions” folder
 Select BRIO 6.0 SAMPLE 2 – ADVANCED.OCE
 User ID/Password Box Appears

– Enter the User ID und password of the host system
 In production, the user ID and password you entered would have been
that of the host system. Brio does not have its own security, but Brio
will enforce the security of the host application.
 Handbook: Brio provides a comprehensive handbook.

– For further reference, use the Help pull down menu or click the
“question mark” from the tool bar.

1. The Brio Interface

 You should now have a screen
that looks like this.
– Brio is a typical Windows
application:
Format Toolbar Menu Bar  Across the top is the tool bar.
 The large landscape in the main
Standard Toolbar
portion of the screen is the
Sections Pane “canvas” for your work.
 The Sections pane (dark grey,
upper left) is quick access to the
Main Contents Pane work you are doing.
 The Tables pane is a list of tables
Status Bar
Tables Pane (only those you have access to!).
All of this will be covered in later pages

1. Drag and Drop
1. From the Table pane, click/hold

PRODUCTS and drag to the
main landscape.
The PRODUCT table, and its
elements, are now displayed
within the main landscape.
2. From the PRODUCTS table,
click/hold and drag the
PRODUCT_ID to the Request
line above the main landscape.
You should now have a page that

is similar to the screen to the left
(sans arrows).

1. Running that first query
 Request/Sort/Limit
– Request is similar to the Select
statement in a QMF query - This
line will hold the data elements
you wish to see in your results.
– Sort equates to the Order by
statement in a QMF query – It
orders the results of your query.
– Limit is the Where statement –
These are the criteria placed
against the data you’re pulling.
“Toggle” request, sort, limit

by clicking here
From the tool bar click Process.

1. Running that first query - Results
 Results
– After following the previous
steps and hitting Process
you’ve run a simple query
Return to query that grabbed all the
PRODUCT_ID values
within the PRODUCTS
table.
Number of rows

2. Changing your query
 After returning to the query

landscape:
– Drag PRODUCT_FAMILY
and
PRODUCT_CATEGORY to
the Request line.
– Drag
PRODUCT_CATEGORY to
the Limit line.
 The Limit line will prompt
you for action.

2. Setting the limits
 Click the pull down box for the

“type” of limit (the default is
=Equal).
 As with a standard QMF query,
you have multiple choices:
– Equal
– Less Than/Greater Than
– Between
– Begins with
– Ends with
 We will stick with the default of
=Equal and set the value to
“ABC”.
Drop down box
Enter desired
 Click OK.
value here
From the tool bar click Process.

2. Running the new query
 Something go wrong?
– The requested data
elements were returned;
however, no values are
present.
 That means there are no
Product Categories named
Click here to return
to the query
“ABC”.
– Click the Query tab in the

Sections pane.

2. Second look at the Limit box

 Once back in the query
landscape, double click the
button within the Limit line.
 Click Show Values.
– NOTE!
 These are ALL the values
within the table. If you
choose to do this with a
multi-million row table, it
will take time!
 Select all the “A” values from
the drop down box and click
Show Values OK; then rerun the query (click
Process).
As with any Windows application,
hold the Ctrl key or the shift key to
choose multiple (or consecutive)
element values.

More on Limits – Load from TXT File


Now your PRODID limit

contains the values from the
TXT File

2. More Results
 A new query has been built.

 The Sections pane has
changed to Results.
 And these results are now
on your client workstation.
– You can disconnect from
the system and perform
further analysis work on
these results.

3. Getting complex
 Back to the query landscape

right click on the Product table
and then click Remove.
 From the Tables pane, drag
Auto Join SALES_FACT and drag
STORES to the query
landscape.
 Right click on the line between
the two tables, and click
Properties.

3. Joins
 Joins
– Default join is Simple
 Where the tables are joined
(relationally) based on like
values between the two
tables.
– Other types of Joins
 Outer
 Left
 Right
– Override
 You can also right-click the
line drawn between the
tables and hit Remove. Then
by dragging a value from one
table to the other you can
Types of Joins perform your own join.

The Auto-Join Option

 Brio automatically joins two
fields from two tables if their
names and data types are
identical.
1
 This auto-join option is not
recommended when running
2
UNION queries with CM & PM
tables.
 To turn it off, go to the
DataModel menu (1), select
Data Model Options, then the
General tab. Click the Auto
join tables (2) to disable the
Auto-join. Now, you can create
any joins manually by dragging
the items from one table to
the other.

More on Joins – Data Model Options

More on Joins – Data Model Options – Set all joined topics

3. More on the complex query

 Using the simple join (set to
Equal):
 Drag to the Request line:
– from STORES
 STORE_NAME
 STATE_PROVINCE
 STORE_TYPE
– from SALES_FACT
 PRODUCT_ID
 AMOUNT_SALES
 UNIT_SALES
 Drag to the Limit line:
– From SALES_FACT
 DAY_ID
– Select 366 through 375.
– Click OK.

3. Adding a Sort to the Query
 Adding a Sort
– Drag the
STATE_PROVINCE from the
STORES table to the Sort
line.
It won’t let you do it! This is
Brio’s way of ensuring you
sort only on what you’ve
selected in the query.
– Instead, drag
STATE_PROVINCE from the
Request line.

More on Sorting – Query vs Results

Notice the
Sort in the Notice no Sort in the
Query Results





3. Custom SQL
2) Click Close
when done
3) Click Process
from the tool bar
1) Click View from the
tool bar; then click Custom SQL
from the drop down to view the query
that has been created.

3. Your Results  Your “local” results

– Once you have the data returned
from the query, it is “in” your
Highlighter for the total local computer, much like a
Result table spread sheet would be.
 You can sort data
individually, you can change
the sequence of the
columns, hide and duplicate
rows, etc… All of this without
re-running the query.
Results section highlighted  Right click is your friend
– To modify an item, left click to
select it – the item will turn
Data on your ThinkPad black. Then right click the item -
the right click menu contains all
the options available to you.
– select the total table, click on the
highlighter on the left, up end of
Tables you have access to is now the table
changed to the “columns” – e.g. you can activate text wrap
created by your query (the text will appear on two or
more row’s instead of one)

Some Examples of Report Options

 Right Click is your friend
– When modifying your report,
many of the options you want
to do will be via the ‘right
click’
 Place the pointer over
the AMOUNT_SALES
Right Click
columns and right click;
Left Click
then click ‘Grand Total’
– A pop-up window will ask
what to ‘sum’ on: Click
‘Amount Sales’
– Go to the bottom of the report

The Grand Total

 As with a spread sheet, or
a QMF Query, you can
simply add a grand total to
the bottom of a report
Grand Total
“Getting to the Bottom”
Right Click and Choose

“Grand Total”

Break Totals
 Break Totals
– In the ‘Every Break In’
choose
‘STATE_PROVINCE’
– Select ‘SUM’
– In the ‘Add Total To’ choose
‘AMOUNT_SALES’
Every Break In
– Click “OK”
Sum
Add Total To
Right Click and Choose

“Break Total”
4. More Advanced Queries: Query Properties
 Back in the Query section:

– As with a QMF query, you
can also select only different
rows with a Brio query. To
do this,
 go to the Query menu and
choose Query Options.
Then you will be presented
with a pop-up box as shown
in the picture to the left.
Check Return Unique Rows.
This equates the Select
Distinct statement in QMF.
Set time limit to 30 minutes

4. More Advanced Queries: Variable Limits
 When creating queries for team

members, the same query may
be used; but different people on
the team may need to query
different values. As in QMF, you
can add PROMPTS to a Brio
Query.
1) Click Day Id to highlight.
Click the little arrow, 3) Click Cancel; then click the
then choose Var. Var button again to clear the
prompt request.
2) Now click Process.

The user will be asked to
supply the desired value
for Day Id.

4. More Advanced Queries: “AND/OR” Statements
 From the Sales_Fact table, drag

Store Id to the Limit line: When
prompted, enter the number 4;
click the green checkmark, then
enter the number 10. Again,
click the green checkmark.
Ensure both are “highlighted”.
 Click OK.
Click the checkmark to

recognize the value(s)

4. More Advanced Queries: AND/OR Toggle
 Holding the pointer over

Store Id, the “hover” should
show “4,10”.
 AND automatically appears
between Day Id and Store
The values you chose Id. By clicking the AND
button, you will toggle
between AND and OR.
Click here to toggle

4. More Advanced Queries: Brackets
 Brackets in a query are as

necessary as brackets in
algebra.
 As an example, let’s look for
activity from a specific Store Id
or on a specific Product Id
during the chosen Day Id.
The logic is “questionable”
– Drag Product Id to the Limit line.
Choose products 5 through 15.
– Toggle the AND between Store
Id and Product Id to OR.
 As written, the results from this
query are unpredictable.

4. More Advanced Queries: Brackets
 Click once on Store Id, hold the

shift key, and click on Product Id
(this will select both elements).
 Hitting the “()” button will place
brackets around the selected
Brackets
data elements.
 This query will now provide
Brackets Toggle
predictable results.
 Click Process.

5. Adding Computed Items
 Return to the query section

– Go to the Limit line and
select both Store Id and
Product Id,
– Right click on the elements
and choose Remove.
– Rerun the query
 The sections pane will
change to results.
 Computed Items
– Select one of the columns.
Pop-up from right click; – Right click, then choose and
choose ‘Add Computed Item’ left click Add Computed
Item.

5. Computed Item
1) Type in the name of the column: Basic Algebra

Average Sales
3) Click on “/”
5) Click OK
4) Click Reference (again) and choose

2) Click Reference and choose
Unit Sales
Amount Sales
Click OK
Click OK

5. Results from Computed Item
 A new column has been placed

at the far right of your report.
 The results within this column is
the Amount Sales / Unit Sales
as defined in the previous chart.
 You can change the background
New Column
color of the column heading to
differentiate between database
and self-created columns. To do
this, click on the column title,
then right click and choose
(You may need to move the screen over) Background.

5. Formatting Columns
 The Computed Item column is
simply math between the two
columns that were specified
when setting the column up.
 The results are calculated out to
the default number of decimals.
Left click here to
highlight the
 To insert a fixed text in a
entire column Computed Item, enter the text in
‘…’
 To change the format, choose
the entire column (by left clicking
at the top of the column),
 then right click anywhere in the
Choose Number
column
– and choose Number.

5. More Formatting Columns
 Simply choose how you

would like to see the results
represented.
– Choose Currency.
– Then choose the number of
decimals from the
possibilities offered.
 You can also choose the font
you wish to use, colors,
alignments etc…
Currency and $
with 2 decimals

5. Grouping
 Not to be confused with the
“grouping” that is done in a
QMF query.
– Grouping in this case will take
a series (or string) of values
and assign a specific value to
them.
 For example, you can assign
the value of Small, Medium or
Large to a subset of Product
Options: to define IDs.
what happen with – be aware by creating a
ungroup values grouping column, because of
new values which are not relate
to the groups, go to options
Select the Product ID
column; then right click
and define what will happen
and choose with this values, otherwise
Add Grouping Column. BRIO set it default to 0

5. Creating the Group Names
 Once you clicked Add Grouping

Column you will be presented with
a pane that will allow you to
assign values to a “group”.
Click here New Group – Click New Group.
– Enter Small.
– Then choose 1-99 for the values.
– Then hit the arrow to move the
chosen items from the Available
Values column to the Items in
Group column.
– Repeat this process for Medium,
Enter this value Choose 1-99 setting the values 100-199; and
when prompted the balance into group name
Large.
Once you’ve defined the values to be used  Before you hit OK the Available
in the group, hit this arrow BEFORE Values column should be empty.
you hit “OK”.

That first Chart

 As you drag and drop each
data element into the X and Y
Axis, the chart will be built.
 Your ‘default’ chart will be a
bar chart.
 There are different styles of
charts available.
 We will be using a ‘pie’ chart
for this exercise.
Click the dropdown
 THIS CAN BE COPIED TO

Choose ‘Pie’ POWERPOINT

Customizing the Chart

 There are many things you can do
with a chart once created; many of
the capabilities are similar to
Freelance or PowerPoint.
 The first thing is to stay organized.
So, under sections, double click the
Chart bar; you’ll be prompted to
enter a new name. DO NOT just
change the name within the chart.
There is no ‘link’ from the chart to
the section for Chart.
 By clicking once on any section of
the Pie chart, the section will be
Double Click highlighted. Right Click for a pop-
And Change the name up menu of choices. Including:
– Drill Down;
– Changing Color
– Pulling out a slice of the Pie
Click Once to ‘highlight’;  Experiment here, there are lots of
Then right-click for these ways to customize the chart!
Options

Changing the Chart

 Once you’ve created a
chart (in this case, you’ve
already created a pie
chart) you may change the
format by simply clicking
the pull down menu and
choosing a new chart type.
Pull Down Menu

6. A quick view of Pivot
 Pivot
– Allows additional analytical
flexibility in a spreadsheet
format.
 Choose Insert from the tool
Pull Down Menu bar, then choose New
Insert Pivot.
Choose New Pivot
 You’ll be presented with a
Data Elements
blank landscape with a list
------- of available data elements
Label and Fact placement and locations to drag and
drop.

6. Creating the Pivot
 Start by dragging:
– STATE_PROVINCE to
Side Labels,
– AVERAGE_SALES to the
Facts box,
– STORE_TYPE to the Top
Labels.
 The above will provide a
spreadsheet-like
presentation of your chosen
Pivot Handles results.

6. Pivot in Motion
 By clicking on, and holding a

“pivot handle” you can now
change this chart by dragging,
Click and hold here and for example, the top row to the
drag down to the side
side column (note dotted line).
 THE CAN BE EXPORTED TO

EXCEL AS A SPREADSHEET

6. Drill Down on the Pivot
 What you see here is the

result of dragging the top
row to the side column.
 Once this is complete,
single click on New York (to
select) and then right click
for options.
– Choose Drill Anywhere,
then choose Store Name.
– To get back to your starting
point, choose a Store name
from your results, right
click, and Drill Up.

6. Drilling Up
 When you perform a Drill up,
remember that you must
choose the “column” that
resulted from you Drill down.
 You can also drill down the
Store Name for the entire
column. To do this, click on the
white label at the bottom of the
State Province column – the
column will turn black. Then
right click and choose Drill
anywhere  Store Name.
The store name
is the result from
 With focus on items you can
the drill down: choose display only this specific rows.
this to drill back up. To cancel this focus click right
and choose show hidden
items.

6. Adding Totals
 To add totals, click on the

white label at the bottom of
the State Province column.
Then right click and choose
Add Totals.
Right click

6. Adding Subtotals
 A total appears at the bottom

of the State Province column.
 Again, click on the white
label at the bottom of the
Store Name column, then
right click and select Add
Totals.
Grand Total
“Getting to the Bottom”

6. Adding Subtotals
 Subtotals – one total for each
state province – will appear.
 You can change the font,
colors, alignment etc. of the
total fields. If you want to
change the background color of
the total fields, click first on one
of the total fields and then on
the Fill color icon from the tool
Fill Color bar.
 To change the background
color of the whole row, hold the
Alt key (to highlight the whole
row) and left click
simultaneously, then click on
the Fill color icon.
 To activate the top and side
labels go to format and corner
labels
 You can also activate or cut off
the date labels via Format,
Data Labels

6. Adding Heading and Footer
 To add a heading or footing

text to your Pivot go to
Insert, Page header or Page
footer
 In this box you can insert
your own text in ‘…’ or you
can insert same specific
things via the hot buttons,
like the actual date, time or
Hot Buttons file label
 Go to Print preview to see
your new heading or footing
text

7. Creating a Report
 To insert a Report section,

click New Report on the Insert
menu.
1
– The Content pane will show
blank tabular columns.
 Reports are created by
2 dragging items from Catalog
pane to the Report Outliner.
– If the Outliner is not visible,
3 turn it on by clicking on
Groups and Table on the
Section title bar.
 Drag
– State Province to the Report
Group Outliner,

7. Inserting a Report Header / Footer
– Store Type and Group of Product

Id to the Table Dimensions box,
– Amount Sales, Unit Sales and
Average Sales to the Table facts.
 The report header/footer prints on
the very first/last page of the
report only. To insert a report
header or footer,
– check Section Boundaries on the
Report menu to display
header/body/footer regions.
– On the Report menu, choose
Headers and Footers, and click
either Report Header or Report
Footer.

7. Inserting a Page Header / Footer

– Click anywhere within the report
header/footer boundaries.
– From the Catalog pane, select
information that you want to appear
in the header/footer and drag it to
the header/footer area. You can
insert a text label, an empty field,
page number, date&time etc. For
this example, drag the Amount
Sales field from the Results folder
to the report footer – it will appear
as a Grand Total.
 The page header or footer
contains information that you want
to appear on every page. You can
insert a page header or footer in
the exact same manner as a report
header or footer.

7. Format of the Report design
 To point out multiple rows with

different background colours,
select one column, check the
format menue, border and
background, check the box
with alternate with and choose
a colour and which lines
should point out
 To give the individual titels
accurate names, click left on
the titel and add under Data
Function your appendix in ‘...‘
+, e.g. Add ‘State Province‘ +
to the data function line, after
left click on California

8. Exporting Your Results to *.xls
 Once your report is created

(remember, this is on your
client!), it is easy to download
into Microsoft’s Excel.
– Simply click File, scroll down
to Export and then Section.
– Sections can be exported to
Excel (*.xls), Lotus 1-2-3
(*.wks), Tab Delimited Text
File - Export - Section
(*.txt), HTML (*.htm) and
Comma Delimited (*.csv).

8. Saving your Download
 As with any standard Windows

program you will be presented
with a pop-up box where you
will be prompted to enter a
name for your data. The
default qualifier is *.xls.
 To work with your report at a
later date, you can also save it
to your hard drive as a *.bqy
Pop-up box file. To save the space on your
Default file type of *.xls hard drive, go to File  Save
Options and check Compress
Documents before saving.

9. Hints and tips – Table names
 Full Names of Tables:

– Tables in the Catalog pane appear without the
high level qualifier, HLQ (FIRCA, FIRCC,
FIRCL). Since the user have access to data
within one of these HLQs, it is important to see
them in order to pull the right table from the
Catalog pane. To add the HLQs to the table
names, right click on Tables and select Full
Names.
 Changing the physical name of the table:
– In case you have pulled the table with the
incorrect HLQ or you need the prior year
version of your table, you can get the „right“
table by editing the physical name. To do this,
right click on the table name and select
Properties.

9. Hints and tips – Before processing
 Saving: Always save your query regularly, especially before processing.

 Compressing files: Always save your files as compressed. It will take
longer to open and save them, but it will save space on your hard drive.
To save your files always in this way, go to Tools  Options 
Program Options and check the Compress all documents box. To save
your file as compressed, select File  Save Options  Compress
Document.
 Estimating Query Size: This function returns you very quickly the
number of rows that will be pulled by the query. If the query size is too
large or the query will return 0 rows (and you expect data to be
returned), you can change your settings without having to wait for the
query.

9. Hints and tips – Cancelling queries
 Cancelling queries
– If the query is taking too long, or you realize you have forgotten to include
something then you can cancel it. To do so, press the ALT and the END
keys simultaneously. This may not have an immediate effect but the query
will stop once the data is being sent back to BRIO.
 How do you know BRIO is processing a query?
– BRIO indicates that it is trying to connect to the data source by the words
‘Waiting for Server’ appearing in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.
Once BRIO has connected and is retrieving data this message will change
to ‘Retrieving Rows (Alt-End to cancel)’. This means that the query has run
within DB2, and the data is being sent back across the network. If you have
requested the data to be sorted or are reprocessing a query which has a sort
or a calculation in the data model then the messages ‘Sorting’ or
‘Calculating’ will be shown. When the query has finished the Results screen
will appear automatically.

9. Hints and tips – Changing the OCE File

 Select Tools from the menu bar and then Connection > Modify. If you are
already logged on to a connection then it is this connection that will be modified.
If you are not logged on, you will be asked to select a connection file from the
default Open Catalogue Extensions folder;
 Once the relevant connection file is selected, a Database Connection Wizard
dialogue box will appear. The setting in the first screen should read ODBC and
DB2. Click Next to continue:
 Now you will be shown a screen which has the Default User ID stored, together
with the Host (EUHADBM0 – this is the connection you set up in the DB2
connect program). Type in the User ID’s password, and click on Next;
 Now you will be asked if you want to use the current connection, or use a
different connection. If you want to change you can do it now, or press Next to
continue if you are already using the correct connection;
 You will see a screen with Custom… in the top box. Click Next again;
 Finally you will come to the relevant screen. You should see three large boxes
with the word ‘Define…’ in each. Click on the box next to Owner Name.

You will be presented with a dialogue box similar to the one below, containing a list of the
creators already available – these should include
FIRCA, FIRCC, FIRCD, FIRCL, FIRPA, FIRPC, FIRPD and FIRPL.
This means that when you click on the + symbol next to the word Tables in the Table catalogue,
you will only see those tables beginning with one of the listed HLQ’s.
To add your own ID (or anyone else’s for that matter) enter the ID in the box next to the green
tick, and then click on the green tick button;

• You should be able to see your entry in the list if you scroll through it. However,
you will notice that only the new ID is highlighted.
Click on the Select All button to highlight all entries and click on the OK button.
• Keep clicking on the Next button on the following screens until the Finish button becomes
available, then click on Finish.
• You will be asked if you want to save your OCE file.
Select Yes, and either replace the old file or change the file to a new name if you wish.
Now check that the new tables have been added when you click on the + key in
the table catalogue.This may not work for a query file which is already open in BRIO.
If not, try closing the file and re-opening it before trying again.
10. Union Queries in Brio ......

This is what the query looks like in QMF ………..
SELECT MAJ, A.MINOR, DEPTNUM, ACCTMO, ACCTDESC, SUM(AMTLOC) AMTLOC

FROM LRPCC.USDETAIL_CM_D A, FIWCU.ACCOUNT_R B
WHERE STREAM_ID = 'US' AND CTY='897' AND LC = '00' AND TOLI = 'L'
AND MAJ = '624' AND DEPTNUM LIKE 'C%'
AND MAJ=MAJOR AND A.MINOR=B.MINOR
GROUP BY MAJ, A.MINOR, DEPTNUM, ACCTMO, ACCTDESC
UNION ALL
SELECT MAJ, A.MINOR, DEPTNUM, ACCTMO, ACCTDESC, SUM(AMTLOC) AMTLOC
FROM LRPCC.USDETAIL_PM_D A, FIWCU.ACCOUNT_R B
WHERE STREAM_ID = 'US' AND CTY = '897' AND LC = '00' AND TOLI = 'L'
AND MAJ = '624' AND DEPTNUM LIKE 'C%'
AND MAJ=MAJOR AND A.MINOR=B.MINOR
GROUP BY MAJ, A.MINOR, DEPTNUM, ACCTMO, ACCTDESC
ORDER BY 1,2,3,4


This is what the query looks like in Brio …
62 Begins
US 89
89 00 LL 62 Beginswith
with
US 44 ‘C’
77 00 ‘C’

Because
of the
LOVE


This is what the report (pivot) looks like in Brio …

Save data in QMF and use that table in Brio.

Make sure you update your Connection …
Tools -> Connection -> Modify -> Update ‘Owner Name’ with your TSO ID
Import Excel Spreadsheets and TXT Files.

File  Import Data File  Select Data File
• Remove all CHAR lines after the headings before the
data columns when using egjj.sendlotus.
• Save an Excel Spreadsheet as an .csv file in order to
import into Brio properly.




12. Subquery in Brio ...

Lets Start with a Base Query


Double-click on Day-id in the Periods Table and click Advanced button


Now click on the Create SubQuery button


Move Day id to the Request Line from Sales Fact Table and right click
and choose Max


Go back to the Main Query and double-click on Day id on Limit Line


Here are your Results .....


Cut and Paste a QMF query into a .SQL file on your C Drive


Open Brio: click File -> Import Data File -> SQL -> Open your File
Step 1 Step 2


Now your QMF query is in Brio, double-click on each column in the Request
Line and rename and select the correct properties and click Process …


Here is your data … created by a Pivot …


Create a query to get some reference data …


Now let’s create our Detail query using the ‘Local Results’ just returned …


Here are your Results … with a Computed Col

More on Computed Item

The ability to use conditional statements (if,then) can help you add more dimension
to your work. As you can see from the first example, with amount fields. I have
results from a UNION query which has multiple amount fields from our Hyperion
Journal databases. I want to create a column for those records where the
Ledger Indicator is 'L'.
- Right mouse click, select add computed item, name the new column.
- Click the 'if' button - if ( ) { } - place your cursor inside the first bracket,
click Reference, select the Ledger_Ind field.
- Click OK
- Click the == button (which means equal), type 'L‘.
- Place your cursor inside the second bracket, click Reference, select the
L_2007 amt field – current year Hyperion Journal DB.
- Click OK
- Click the 'else' button - else { } - please the cursor inside the bracket,
click Reference, select the CY2007_OB_Var field – CY OBAL DB.
- Click OK



The Executive Information Section (EIS)
• Creates Snapshots of the other Brio Sections …

• Pivots
• Charts
• Tables


Now let’s create our EIS Section … click on Insert -> New EIS -> creates JPEG

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 User ID/Password Box Appears

 Handbook: Brio provides a comprehensive handbook.

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1. The Brio Interface

All of this will be covered in later pages

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1. Drag and Drop

1. From the Table pane, click/hold

You should now have a page that

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1. Running that first query

“Toggle” request, sort, limit

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1. Running that first query - Results

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2. Changing your query

 After returning to the query

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2. Setting the limits

 Click the pull down box for the

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2. Running the new query

– Click the Query tab in the

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2. Second look at the Limit box

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More on Limits – Load from TXT File

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More on Limits – Load from TXT File

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More on Limits – Load from TXT File

Now your PRODID limit

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 A new query has been built.

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 Back to the query landscape

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The Auto-Join Option

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More on Joins – Data Model Options

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More on Joins – Data Model Options – Set all joined topics

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3. More on the complex query

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3. Adding a Sort to the Query

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More on Sorting – Query vs Results

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More on Sorting – Query vs Results

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More on Sorting – Query vs Results

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More on Sorting – Query vs Results

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More on Sorting – Query vs Results