Getting started with Business Objects Application

(BOA)
Module 1
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Introductions
Who

are you? What do you do? Where do you work? Why are you here?
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Purpose
To To

show you how BOA works

teach you the major features of BOA you use BOA

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Let

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Course Organization
Days One and Two BOA Slide Presentations Demonstrations Practice Exercises Questions and Answers BOA Resources

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Course Organization (cont.) Days Three and Four

End

of Course Challenge

Sharing Course

A Ha Experiences
Evaluation

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You Will Be Able To . . .

Recognize

BOA concepts and terminology Log in to BOA Create BOA documents Build and run simple queries Manipulate Data Refresh & rename reports

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You Will Be Able To . . .

Use

filters and sorts

Apply Use

simple calculations

tables to view data in different ways reports

Share

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Administrative Information
Start

& Finish Times

Breaks
Lunch Emergencies!

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Getting Started
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Organization
HQ ACPERS

CSU RPAs DCPDS Product. BOA Resumix NPAs

Applicants Input

Documents (Reports)
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Organization (cont.)

Regional Report

HQ ACPERS

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Universes, Classes, and Objects

Information is identified by common terms:

Universe

Classes

Objects
An Object is anything you want to see in a report
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Logging in to BOA
Locate the BOA Port

You have 3 attempts to log in correctly.

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Using BOA

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Using BOA
Choose the Universe (data source) for your query

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Using BOA
Select a universe

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Query Panel

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Classes of Data and Objects

Shows folders with Classes of data and the Objects in the selected universe

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Types of Objects
Dimension Measure Detail

can be combined with a...

to analyze summary information.

to gain more information on an entity.

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Break Time
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