SAP Business Objects Universe - Information Design Tool

[@atoz899]

secure connection concept was not clear to me before seeing your video. Now it is crystal clear. Thanks!

[@bashahimmatgori9438]

It cannot go simpler than this! A very nice, simple, easy to understand video to understand end to end report creation. Great work Naresh. Keep it up!

[@NareshGanatra]

+Basha Himmatgori Thanks and glad you liked 'em !

[@sujojohn2948]

Hi Naresh, Thank you very much for your detail video. I'm very new to this technology. I searched all the SAP documents and videos to get this information and couldn't found any.But you described in a very easy and understandable way. Thank you.

[@NareshGanatra]

Thanks for your comments !! Glad that it helped !! Regards, Naresh

[@NareshGanatra]

Thanks for your comments !! Glad that you liked the demo. 1. It is the new tool for creating the universe starting 4.0, universe designer is also available for now but would face out eventually. It has most of the features from Universe designer plus some new features, one of them being..Data Federation (multi source universe) 2. For Edge I think you would need server OS. Regards, Naresh

[@krismaly6300]

I enjoyed watching this video and recommend others to watch. I see you have explained all the steps required to create to publish. Thanks for educating the community. I wish you produce few more videos since your topic knowledge is very good.

[@rajpinki19]

Thank you sooooo much Naresh...your tutorial videos are the best...thank you so much for helping everyone.

[@saikrishna9672]

Good explanation, as per the process normally we create data foundation on .cns connection and there after but you have created locally on the right click on project and create data foundation. May be its due to we dont want to put more pressure on server side.

[@NareshGanatra]

It’s been so long so don’t remember much -:) but if memory serves me right I used to create it locally as I did not see a need to depend on the server during the initial designing

[@alokg.4081]

Thanks for the demo Naresh.

[@lazaroalfonso5479]

Thank you Naresh, very easy to follow!...

[@NareshGanatra]

Thank You Lazaro for the comment !

[@NareshGanatra]

Thanks for your comments ! 1. Yes, Ultimately. Right now as you might have seen they have both. 2. Yes.

[@bezawadaomprakash]

it is very helpful for beginers..thank u so much naresh.

[@pknhaveenkumarreddy7264]

Your accent is exact towards Barry Kripke Character in The Big Bang Theory...

[@NareshGanatra]

@swapna1976us Glad that the demos helped. After your question, I have added some information in the description of the video on where to download SAP Business Objects Edge 4.0 trial version. Regards, Naresh

[@baringtonbala9580]

Great video it helped me a lot to understand the basics of IDT.

[@PRAKASHVADALA]

@ Prakash Vadala its nice presentation

[@NareshGanatra]

Appreciate the comments ! Regards, Naresh

[@indrani11]

Hi Naresh...this was very useful to understand row level security...thank you so much....Hope to see some more useful topics like traps in universe...

[@kanthhana6005]

Nice Explanation Naresh

[@stevenkurt23]

This is the shortest but the best lecture. I did learn a lot. Thank you.

[@NareshGanatra]

Steve Kurt Thanks ! Glad that it helped.

[@NareshGanatra]

+Steve Kurt Thanks ! Glad that it helped.

[@reenaghawalkar9301]

Very Good Explanation!! Thanks for sharing

[@felipesouza9962]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial! Helped a lot

[@NareshGanatra]

@Felipe Glad that it helped . It's been sometime I looked at SAP BOBJ. What is the latest version and has the information design tool changed a lot compared to the version in this video ?

[@mohsinahmed]

Hi Naresh it was very helpful thank you very much for your information. thanks agian.

[@bibekmajumdar9889]

Thank you so much 😊

[@VK-fb8ft]

Naresh Thanks for the Video. Very clear and easy to Understand. I went through all your WEBI videos. Very helpful. Do you have videos on Dashboards?

[@krismaly]

This is a good one. This helped me to refresh my BO memories, I wish you publish more videos.

[@BingeLearn]

Hi Naresh. As I am completely new so apologies in advance if sound silly. I have visited some documents about SAP BI. As suggested by many i see there is GUI or may be netweaver GUI needed to create Infoobject however that seems to be missing from my system. I only have Designer and Universe builder installed in my system(BO XI 3.1 Client tool ) along with access to web based tool Infoview is it something related to server/client version ? How do i get other tools which i see in other tutorials.

[@NareshGanatra]

Thanks for watching Chandra !

[@ihsanerbil1453]

Thank you Naresh. Great demo.

[@shivanichhipa5609]

Very nice explanation ✨

[@NareshGanatra]

Glad you liked it ! It’s been 10 years or so since the video

[@shivanichhipa5609]

@@NareshGanatra please share more content related to SAP BO 4.3 if u can

[@NareshGanatra]

Hello Karthik, Somehow missed your note. Thanks for comments. For the ODBC connectivity it depends on which database. For some databases you could do either ODBC or native connectivity. So yes connection is necessary but need not be ODBC depending on the db. Hope that helps ! Regards, Naresh

[@jibyjacob7]

Thanks a lot Naresh...Very good presentation and informative.. How do you arrange training.. Where do live? In India?

[@talk2vibhav]

nice flow Naresh would be interesting if you explain the same flow using SAP BW as a source .

[@lakshminarasimhannarasimha1338]

Excellent :-). Thanks for sharing naresh

[@vannitecmediastudio5860]

Great demo, thank you so much. This helped me a lot :)

[@suit239twig421]

HI Naresh, This was excellent demo. Looking out for more

[@ChandraPLN]

Excellent, nice demo. Thanks

[@PavanKumarbangale]

Very nice explanation. Now that the report can be opened in WEBI Rich Client. Is it possible to get the universe path corresponding to that report from Rich client itself? To be precise can we get where the universe details, where the report is actually stored on the server just by looking at the report?

[@pravallikaaddanki5038]

looking for the same answer pls help

[@saikrishna9672]

We can just export only that universe related objects in the report panel in rich client, there is no such option like that in rich client side i think. But if it will be there then its great.

[@PavanKumarbangale]

@@pravallikaaddanki5038 Yes, there is away to do that. Edit the report--> Go to Data access tab and click on EDIT button. You will find the universe that is being used for generating that particular report.

[@MrIrrepressible]

Hi Naresh, this tutorial is very helpful, thanks for uploading

[@mzwisdom170]

Great Tutorial Naresh. good job.

[@chaitrashetty22]

Excellent demo!!! Thanks a lot for your efforts.

[@andyshermantrample]

Nice Presentation and good articulation

[@NareshGanatra]

Thanks Vibhav ! Will target to demo that sometime in the future. Regards, Naresh

[@BryanBaca]

Thank you for the tutorial Naresh

[@NareshGanatra]

@gudapoorv Thanks for your comments ! Regards, Naresh

[@nike3304]

Hi Naresh ,very Nice explanation, do you have videos on crystal reports , If u have upload or suggest any gud vedios on CR

[@mnzt5093]

Excellent -

[@NareshGanatra]

sri ranga rajan Kandala glad that the video helped !

[@frez516]

Great Video! Make things very clear!

[@shariqahmed9416]

Appreciate sir

[@cmksince1984]

realy informative...many thanks

[@carlosroberto366]

First of all nice Demo, you did a great job. I'm still using BO 3.1 so I have some questions: 1) Is Information Design Tool meant to substitute Universe Designer? 2) Information Design Tool seems to enable me to create a Universe from different databases(connections), correct? I also have noticed the Rich client is somewhat different from the BO 3.1 one :)

[@swapna1976us]

Thanks Naresh. I am new to BOBJ and trying to download a trial version of BOBJ 4.0. Can you please let me know where I can download? Thanks for all your demos.

[@pravallikaaddanki5038]

Great explanation..Do you have any videos on Universe migration? i mean DB changes for reports?

[@NareshGanatra]

Thx for your comments. No I don’t have any video on the migration

[@ofiofy9942]

How I can deploy a universe supplied by our software supplier to report from MS SQL Server DB?

[@Ssathya_shots]

Hi Naresh, Thanks for the video it helps

[@NareshGanatra]

Hello Santosh, When you talk of creating info objects, you are tallking about SAP BW right ? and not SAP Business Objects. Please try posting your question about this on SCN as I might not be able to help much in BW. Regards, Naresh

[@NareshGanatra]

@PRAKASHVADALA Thanks Prakash ! Regards, Naresh

[@pawaneshchandra7993]

Nicely explained concepts for beginners. Great job!!

[@NareshGanatra]

thanks for the comment ! please do take a moment to share the video on your social network (facebook and linkedin) if possible, that way it reaches more folks ! thanks again

[@davidfantuzzo6828]

You are selfless soul. Teaching this without promoting your class . And asking others to share on social media. god bless you always. People like you are indeed great. I am envious of the people who get to work with you as coworkers.

[@NareshGanatra]

wow... so kind of you to say so... it takes hours to create a video sometimes and it takes someone a few seconds to leave a comment or share the video and a comment like yours makes my day. Thanks for taking the time to leave your comment David !! Thanks !

[@marcelodrigues]

Excellent video for beginners, thanks! One question, how this report can be accessed by users?

[@NareshGanatra]

@aatqz64 Thank You for your comments ! Regards, Naresh

[@sameerdwh]

thanks a lot , this video is really helpful....

[@fabriziovidarte]

Thanks Naresh,

[@NareshGanatra]

You should be able to do this when installing the server component, Regards, Naresh

[@RohitPrasad2230]

Need Help: I had saved the universe locally but it is not reflecting in the list of universe in WebI Rich Client. FYI, the extension of universe file that I had saved locally is .unx and I didn't delete the Sales Fact table as i was not able to drag and drop Amount under the folder measure.

[@shrutiyendigeri7833]

Hi Naresh, thanks for your wonderfull video. I did learn a lot. I followed all your steps till publishing the universe succcessfully into local folder. But M not able to see the published universe in WEB INTELLIGENCE even after refreshing the universe list. Please Naresh, help me.

[@NareshGanatra]

Shruti Yendigeri where in webi are you checking...I mean if you are going to Infoview and tring web intelligence then you will not see your locally published universe...you have to publish your universe on to the server...to see a locally published universe you have to use webi rich client and login into offline mode... In other words Locally published universe...offline webi universe published on server...webi through infoview. Hope that helps !

[@shrutiyendigeri7833]

Naresh Ganatra Thanks sir. M using Web Intelligence Rich Client. I logged on to the system with offline mode. But could not retrive the published universe. Then, I tried publishing the universe into repository. It was publihed successfully. But when m testing the connection, M getting this error - " [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified ". Kindly please help me out.

[@NareshGanatra]

Shruti Yendigeri Looks like you have a ODBC connection on your local machine from where you created the universe. You need a ODBC connection on the server too if you are publishing the universe...looks like that might be missing on the server in this case... Thanks,

[@shrutiyendigeri7833]

Naresh Ganatra Thanks sir for your guidance. Videos are really very helpfull to the beginners.

[@srinivasgande1390]

Thank you Naresh.. good topic..

[@krismaly]

Good one I wish you will publish some more videos

[@sandeeppandita1]

Hi Naresh.. thanks a lot for the videos.. Great Job. Do you have any video on universe migration from dev to prod or from one repository to another.

[@pratap9647]

Thanks a lot

[@shekarp82]

Nice Video,

[@gudapoorv]

Thank you,video was really helpful,good job.

[@aatqz64]

Thank you , this video was very hlepful, really appreciate the post

[@echo2net]

Learn a lot. Thank you! What about to create a Universe from SAP tables.

[@NareshGanatra]

Thank You Andy !

[@PrashanthDsouza]

Really well done!

[@NareshGanatra]

+Prashanth D'souza Thanks -:)

[@chrisjsz281234]

Hi. Where would you create a repository (CMS I think)? I haven't used this b4 at all. Thanks

[@houdabastal8417]

so helpdul, thank you naresh

[@NareshGanatra]

glad it helped !

[@dathurao8145]

Hi Naresh, thanks for your videos, could you pls upload videos of BO universal design.so that it will help.

[@yashdiasingh]

Great Stuff !

[@srirangarajankandala7516]

Thank you so much...this video is really very helpful!

[@jasobehera4205]

Thanks for the videos. These are really helpful . Can you please share me a link where I can download and install business objects.

[@NareshGanatra]

Thank You Sujo !

[@jamp982]

where can I find the DB and universes demo? For example efashion?

[@marcin2x4]

I created new dimensions but after publishing they don't appear in Web Intelligence...

[@NareshGanatra]

@aikoseno0 When you create the ODBC and specify the server name give it the name of the remote server. Hope that helps ! Regards, Naresh

[@karankumar-vh9si]

nice video. I need any small database for creating universe on it.. please do a favour

[@ashoksahoo12345]

simple and good

[@NareshGanatra]

Ashok Sahoo Thanks !

[@corazoncavada3777]

Nice!

[@cnubabu]

hi naresh can you we get the access database which you showed for us in all the training videos pls?

[@reenaghawalkar9301]

In the data foundation layer can we have more than one Fact Table?

[@NareshGanatra]

+reena ghawalkar yes, you can and make sure you look around for what is called - business objects universe contexts

[@NareshGanatra]

@cmksince1984 Glad that it helped ! Best Regards, Naresh

[@girishkaushik3049]

Excellent :):)

[@MrIrrepressible]

Hi Naresh, when trying to publish my connection to a repository I get this error: "Unable to connect to service via cmc (FWM 01006)"

[@NareshGanatra]

+IrrepressibleGuile Mr Irrepressible is the server up and running ? are u able to log into the server from your browser and access webi and any reprot/universe there ?

[@MrIrrepressible]

+Naresh Ganatra thanks 4 the reply. the resolution was to add the cmc server ip address to my local machine host file and login using an enterprise account. windows login didnt work for some reason. thanks again

[@NareshGanatra]

***** Cool !

[@vijaykarthick07]

Thanks a Lot... :o)

[@vineetbabu5806]

can we get a training version of Bo

[@NareshGanatra]

SAP does provide a 30 day free trial

[@NareshGanatra]

And here is a video on the same kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYawp3Sad51mZ9U

[@vineetbabu5806]

@@NareshGanatra thank you sir..how can i contact you

[@NareshGanatra]

Welcome -:)

[@reenaghawalkar9301]

Let me know clearly, i have not understood, can you say it with an example. thanks