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:
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:
very good tip!! can we also use stylesheets somehow so that we create a standard look and keep it in one place?
ReplyDeleteHi, We can use inline css like < p style="color:red;margin-left:20px" > Description:< /p > but in order to have a seperate css file we should find the appropriate jsp and alter its header tag (i.e:< link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style1.css" >). Unfortunately i dont know the jsp behind the query panel (maybe with an http request monitor like JAMon we could find it).
ReplyDeleteAnother way would be to alter the css under the themes folder (C:\BusinessObjects\Tomcat6\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\eclipse\plugins\webpath.pswebclient\web\themes\portal) and use one of them for formating. Default theme is sap_tradeshow_plus.
Please notice that default WEBI Report formating is now under C:\BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\images\WebIDefaultStyleSheet.css