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Business View Editor Dialog Box

You can use the Business View Editor dialog box to create or edit a business view. This topic describes the options in the dialog box.

Designer displays the Business View Editor dialog box when you do one of the following:

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

  Or if you select more than one resource in the Add Tables/Views/Queries dialog box and select OK, then in the Query Editor dialog box, 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.
• In the Resources box of the Display screen in the map wizard, right-click a business view or an element in it and select Edit from the shortcut menu.

You see the following options in the dialog box:

Menu

• File
  • Save
    Select to save the business view with all the changes made in this editor.
  • Save As
    Select to save a copy of the business view with a different name.
  • Close
    Select to exit the dialog box.
• New
  • Category
    Select to open the Category Property dialog box to add a category into the business view.
  • Group
    Select to open the New View Element dialog box to add a group object into the business view.
  • Aggregation
    Select to open the New View Element dialog box to add an aggregation object into the business view.
  • Detail
    Select to open the New View Element dialog box to add a detail object into the business view.
  • Hierarchy
    Select it and Designer prompts you to provide a name for the new hierarchy you are going to create.
• Tools
  • Security Configuration
    Select to open the Edit Business View Security dialog box to configure security for all the business views in the current catalog data source.
  • Query Editor
    Select to open the Query Editor dialog box to edit the data resources used for the business view.
  • Predefined Filter
    Select to open the Predefined Filter dialog box to add predefined filters to the business view.
• Options
  • Auto Add Prefix in Display Names
    Similar to the data source property Use Mapping Name Prefix which controls whether to add "tablename_" as the prefix of the table names in the default mapping names of their columns, this property determines whether to automatically append the same prefix in the default display names of the view elements in the business view when you add view elements based on the columns. The two properties work independently from each another, meaning, you can set Use Mapping Name Prefix to "true" to automatically prefix column names with corresponding table names in a data source, but choose not to have the prefix for view elements by clearing Auto Add Prefix in Display Names.

  By default, this option is cleared. In this case, when a column's mapping name contains the "tablename_" prefix which however is not automatically generated but user customized and you add a view element based on the column, Designer still removes the prefix from the display name of the view element.

  You can also set this option via the same-name property of the business view.

• Help
  Select to view information about the dialog box.

Toolbar

• Save
  Select to save the business view with all the changes made in this editor.
• Delete
  Select to delete the specified categories, groups, aggregations, or details from the business view.
• New Category
  Select to create a category in the business view.
• New Group
  Select to create a group object in the business view.
• New Aggregation
  Select to create an aggregation object in the business view.
• New Detail
  Select to create a detail object in the business view.
• New Hierarchy
  Select it and Designer prompts you to provide a name for the new hierarchy you are going to create.
• Select Filter Resources
  Select to open the Select Filter Resources dialog box to customize the view elements that are available when you filter reports which use the business view.
• Query Editor
  Select to open the Query Editor dialog box to edit the data resources used for the business view.
• Predefined Filter
  Select to add predefined filters to the business view.
• Help
  Select to view information about the dialog box.
• Move Up button
  Select to move the specified objects to a higher position.
• Move Down button
  Select to move the specified objects to a lower position.

Resource Objects

This panel lists all the data resources that you can use for the business view.

• Sort icon
  Select to display the Sort drop-down menu to specify how to sort the resources.
  • Ascending
    Select to sort the resources in the ascending order.
  • Descending
    Select to sort the resources in the descending order.
  • No Sort
    Select to keep the original order of the resources as in the database.

  Designer determines the default sort order according to the Sort option in the Catalog category of the Options dialog box. If you do not select Sort in the Options dialog box, Designer selects No Sort by default in the drop-down menu. In addition, the change of sort order is a one-off action which Designer does not remember after you exit the dialog box, meaning, each time when you open the dialog box, Designer always applies the default sort order.

• Search icon
  Select to open the search box to search for resources in the panel. To start searching, type the text you want to search for in the search box and Designer lists the resources containing the matched text.

  You can use the following options in the search box:

  • Drop-down icon
    Select to list more search options.
    • Highlight All
      Select to highlight all the matched text.
    • Match Case
      Select to search for text that meets the case of the text you type.
    • Match Whole Word
      Select to search for text that looks the same as the text you type.
  • Delete icon
    Select to close the search box and cancel the search.
• Close icon
  Select to close the panel. To display the panel again, select the expand arrow on the left of the Business View panel.

Business View

You can add or edit the resources of a business view in this panel. Designer arranges the resources in a tree structure. Under the root category, you can add categories, view elements, and hierarchies. You can use categories as virtual folders to hold subcategories and view elements. You can add view elements and hierarchies in any categories including the root category.

• Sort icon
  Select to display the Sort drop-down menu to sort the resources excluding the elements in hierarchies in the ascending or descending order.
• Search icon
  Select to open the search box to search for resources in the panel. To start searching, type the text you want to search in the search box for and Designer lists the resources containing the matched text.

You can use the following options in the search box:

• Drop-down icon
  Select to list more search options.
  • Highlight All
    Select to highlight all the matched text.
  • Match Case
    Select to search for text that meets the case of the text you type.
  • Match Whole Word
    Select to search for text that looks the same as the text you type.
• Delete icon
  Select to close the search box and cancel the search.

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