Briefly describe the steps you would take to use an Excel
file as data to join a Business Objects data provider in a
report?
Thanks in advance....

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Briefly describe the steps you would take to use an Excel file as data to join a Business Objects d..

Answer / amit rathi

1)Create a New DP by Personal data File(Excel File) .
2)check objects in the data manager.only those column
contain measures values should be measure objects.other
should be dimension or details.
3)Link the dimesion objects with other DP Objects.

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Briefly describe the steps you would take to use an Excel file as data to join a Business Objects d..

Answer / jansi

1. Create a data provider having personal data file as
source, select the excel file and check 'First row contains
column names'. This'll do.

2. Suppose we want LOVs to be populated from excel,
definitely we 've to build universe out of the excel.

Assumption: Answers are given to Desktop Intelligence
reports.

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