Wednesday, February 8, 2012

SAP BOXI, BI 4: Formating Universe Descriptions using HTML

As consultants we want to keep our customers (AKA End Users) happy. Their main point of contact in a Business Objects environment its the universe. So its only natural to provide efficient documentation on universe objects.

Since the desktop intelligence is out of the scope (BI 4) we can now focus on enriching web Intelligence experience. One great way of doing so its formating object descriptions at universe level by utilizing HTML tags like <font>, <b>,<br> even or you can even include IMG tag to add some pictures :-)

Open Designer and alter the description of an object. 







Expiriment with varius tags i.e:

<font face="verdana" color="red" size="5">
<b>Description:</b><br>
Sin City is an urban area (a city or part of) that caters to various vices.These vices may be legal (depending on area) or illegal activities which are tolerated.</font>
<hr />
<font face="verdana" color="black" size="5">
<b>Example:</b><br>
perhaps the most well known example being the Las Vegas metropolitan area, USA.</font><br>
<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Las_Vegas_Strip.png/320px-Las_Vegas_Strip.png" alt="Sin City of LA" height="70" width="100" />




And you can go from this:
To that: