filed in Web Intelligence on Feb.17, 2010
Henri Theuwissen has written Convincing Reasons to Move to Web Intelligence, a thoughtful and detailed review of how organizations can move from Desktop Intelligence to Web Intelligence. Henri makes the case that The conversion from Desktop Intelligence to Web Intelligence: – Reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO). – Increases the ease of deployment and [...]
filed in Web Intelligence on Mar.07, 2009
Displaying a prompt value on a BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report is pretty straightforward. Web Intelligence provides the UserResponse function to do this. string UserResponse(object data_provider; string prompt_text; Index) But notice that the data type returned by UserResponse() is always a string. What if you are trying to display a date? For example: UserResponse(“My Date Prompt”) [...]
filed in Web Intelligence on Feb.28, 2009
A frequent reporting requirement is to display an organization’s logo as an image, such as a GIF, JPEG or PNG) on Web Intelligence documents. There are two ways to accomplish this task: 1. Place the file in a special images directory on the BusinessObjects Enterprise server2. Place the file on another web server Let’s look [...]
filed in Web Intelligence on Sep.29, 2008
You’ve got to admire the new confidence-building features of Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.0. When you validate a Web Intelligence formula (I’m using the Web Intelligence Rich Client here), you receive the following message: I must admit – receiving a message such as this one boosts your confidence, kind of like a Hallmark moment from [...]
David Taylor
Doug Lautzenheiser (BI Software)
Xcelsius XComponents
