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Business View Editor Dialog

The Business View Editor helps you to create or edit a business view. It appears when you do one of the following:

• Right-click the Business Views node in the Catalog Manager, select New Business View from the shortcut menu, input a name in the displayed dialog and select OK. Then in the Add Tables/Views/Queries dialog, select one resource and then select OK.

  Or if you select more than one resource in the Add Tables/Views/Queries dialog and select OK, then in the Query Editor select the required table columns and join the tables and select OK.

• In the Catalog Manager right-click a business view and select Edit from its shortcut menu.
• Right-click a business view or an element in it and select Edit from the shortcut menu in the Resources box of the Display screen in the map wizard.

See the editor.

The following are details about options in the editor:

Menu

• File
  • Save
    Saves the business view and applies all the changes made in this window.
  • Save As
    Saves a copy of the business view with a different name.
  • Close
    Exits this window.
• Insert
  • Category
    Opens the Category Property dialog to insert a new folder into the business view.
  • Group
    Opens the New View Element dialog to insert a group object into the business view.
  • Aggregation
    Opens the New View Element dialog to insert an aggregation object into the business view.
  • Detail
    Opens the New View Element dialog to insert a detail object into the business view.
  • Hierarchy
    Prompts you to provide a name for a new hierarchy and then adds a hierarchy into the business view resource tree. The name should be unique among the hierarchies in a business view.
• Tools
  • Security Configuration
    Opens the Edit Business View Security dialog to configure security for all the business views in the data source.
  • Join
    Opens the Query Editor to edit the self contained query for the business view.
  • Predefined Filter
    Opens the Predefined Filter dialog to add predefined filters to the business view.
• Help
  Displays the help document about this feature.

Toolbar

• Save
  Saves the business view and applies all the changes made in this window.
• Delete
  Deletes the selected categories, groups, aggregations or details from the business view.
• New Category
  Inserts a new folder into the business view.
• New Group
  Inserts a group object into the business view.
• New Aggregation
  Inserts an aggregation object into the business view.
• New Detail
  Inserts a detail object into the business view.
• New Hierarchy
  Prompts you to provide a name for a new hierarchy and then adds a hierarchy into the business view resource tree. The name should be unique among the hierarchies in a business view.
• Join
  Opens the Query Editor to edit the self contained query for the business view.
• Predefined Filter
  Opens the Predefined Filter dialog to add predefined filters to the business view.
• Help
  Displays the help document about this feature.
• 
  Moves the selected object one step up.
• 
  Moves the selected object one step down.

Resource Objects

Lists all the resources that can be inserted into the business view.

Business View

You can add or edit the resources of a business view in this panel. The resources are arranged in a tree structure. Under the root category, categories, view elements and hierarchies can be added. Categories are used as virtual folders to hold sub categories and view elements. View elements and hierarchies can be added in any categories including the root category.

For how to add and edit elements in a business view, see Adding and Modifying Elements.

For how to add hierarchies, see Defining Hierarchies.

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