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1. To hide columns in a report without formatting, delete the column name from the "slice and dice" section of the report builder. This will hide it from view. 2. As a workaround, you can hide columns by making the background and text colors white and minimizing the column width. 3. When merging two data providers with different universes but a common dimension, measures can be used from both universes while dimensions are limited to one universe except for the merged dimension. The output will be an inner join on the merged dimension.

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Difference Between Thin and Fat Installations Feature Bo Webi

1. To hide columns in a report without formatting, delete the column name from the "slice and dice" section of the report builder. This will hide it from view. 2. As a workaround, you can hide columns by making the background and text colors white and minimizing the column width. 3. When merging two data providers with different universes but a common dimension, measures can be used from both universes while dimensions are limited to one universe except for the merged dimension. The output will be an inner join on the merged dimension.

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How would I hide fields in a report other than formatting the cells?

1. We can hide the coloumn from the report with out formatting.when ever you are making the report the
total columns comes in dataprovider in form of select query. those columns also appear in slice and dice
section, you can delete that column name from slice and dice which you want to hide.

if you want to take hide column again in future , you can drop from report builder to slice and dice but
in same sequence which is appering in dataprovider.
2. You can do in Webi also. This is not the proper way but it is just a work around. 
Just make the backgroung color and text color white and minimize the width. you will only see a little
gap in the report

Queries can be combined, what are the three ways of combining queries?
We can combine the queries like UNION,INTERSECT AND MINUS.
We can do this in BO Click Edit Data Provider-->Data Provider Window Opens in that click Combined Tab.

What facility do I use to insert sub totals in a report?


Suppose you want subtotal of amounts vendor wise in your report then insert the break into vendors then take
sum for amounts field. It will automatically calculate the sub total of amounts vendor wise and also show the
whole total of all vendors in last page of report.
How would I export a report to Word?
You can not export in word. its not supported by BOXIR2. this facility is not available in BO version 6.5 but if you
want to do then you will have to make macro based report and you can write the exporting code behind the
macro.
BO Data Providers
when we use 2 data providers, and each data provider contains different universe,
when we merge these two universes in a report with some common dimension, then what will be
the result of the report with that merging dimension and one measure from one universe and one
dimension from other universe?
Eg: Universe1 and Universe2
say merging dimension is d1
and measure m1 from universe1
and measure m2 from universe2
then what will be the output?
is it gonna be union, intersection or outer join or inner join or something else?
Hey in such case you can only use dimensions from one data provider in the report except the dimensions which
are involved in merging. Meraged dimension can be used from any of the data provider. Measures from both
data providers can be used in single report. 

what is a cube in Business objects? how to create a cube in Business objectsXI?


A cube in Bo is nothing but the resultset of the query or the data providor. I  think we dont create a cube
explicitly. I think we cannot create a cube physically but logically in drilling process. U can pick up the 2
dimensional view of the cube by drilling.

How do I change AND to OR in the query pane?


Just double click the AND operator on query pannel, it will get converted into Or operartor.

Difference between Thin and Fat installations


Feature BO WebI
Data Access Via, Yes No
Stored Procedures, Free hand
SQL, Personal Data files
(.txt, .xls, .wk, .prn, .asc)
Ability to access Multiple source in a Yes No
single report
Can access other OLAP server   Yes No
(Microsoft OLAP, DB2 OLAP and
Oracle Express)
Ability to use report templates Yes
Yes
Ability to create more than one report in Yes
a single Business Objects document
Yes (but
with same
data
provider)
Multiple views of the same data in a Yes
single report (pie chart, tabular, cross Possible
tab, etc)
Ability to analyze Business Objects Yes No
report data with Data mining product
Business Miner
Ability to create Variables in document Yes
level. Yes

Ability to send Business Objects report Yes No


via Microsoft mail

Ability to compare an object with Yes No


Another object, Sub Query, Calculation
in condition (Where Clause)
Ability to display only the top and Yes (By
bottom values by a another variable Ranking) Yes (By
Ranking)
Ability to build two or more queries in Yes
the Query Panel and to combine these Yes
queries by using an operator (UNION,
INTERSECT, or MINUS)
Ability to use BusinessObjects own Yes No
build-in functions in report.

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