Migration of Business Objects XI from R2 to R3 July 1, 2009

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Migration of Business Objects XI from R2 to R3

July 1, 2009

Office of the Chief Financial Officer

Fiscal Management Information System Team

This presentation is not intended as Business Objects training. It is for current users of Business Objects XI, Release 2.

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Changes are coming to Business Objects

This presentation explains: The What, When, and Why of the changes

How those changes impact the user

Differences between the old version and the new version

How your input will help this project succeed

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What, When, and WhyWHAT:

The current version is Business Objects XI Release 2

FMIS 4.0 is being upgraded to a newer version called Business Objects XI Release 3

In the rest of this presentation, the abbreviations “R2” and “R3” will be used

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What, When, and Why

WHEN:

The release date is July 27

On that date, R2 will no longer be available

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What, When, and Why

WHEN:

R3 is available now in FMIS Test (FMIST) for user acceptance testing

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What, When, and Why

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R2 has software bugs which were corrected in R3

Software was enhanced with additional functions that do not exist in R2

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In short, the FMIS Team needs you …

…to conduct user acceptance testing!

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Schedule of Testing

R3 is available in FMIST for testing from now through Friday, July 17

Send comments or results of testing to [email protected]

R3 replaces R2 on July 27

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Before we take a tour of the differences, one quick reminder about FMIS Test…

Where is it?

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Where is FMIS Test?

In the “Other Systems” link on the UPACS Production Menu.

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A New Look and Feel

How Business Objects XI R3 changes…

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Old Release Welcome Page:

The newer Welcome Page has fewer default toolbars.

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Properties, Move, Copy, and Delete icons disappear in new release.

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“My Folders” is renamed “My Favorites.”

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New Release Welcome Page

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“Help” and “Log Out” are text buttons instead of icons.

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The Document Details Panel

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Old Release Document Details Panel

Several changes have been made to the Document Details panel (which displays the list of Business Objects reports). Changes include…

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New Release Document Details Panel

The layout of the reports listing has been changed from form style to tabular format.

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By default, only partial report descriptions will be displayed on the screen. To view the full report description, click on the report title and then select “Actions” “Properties.”

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Note that the hyperlinks displayed below each report title in R2 (Properties, View, Modify, Schedule, History) have now been moved under ‘Actions’ menu item in R3.

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In R3, the user can select a report title and then right click to perform actions such as opening, modifying, and scheduling.


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Creating a New BO XI Report

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Click “New” > “Web Intelligence Document” to get the list of Universes.

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New > Web Intelligence Document

After clicking on “Web Intelligence Document,” the list of Universes appears.

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Unlike the old version, a description of each Universe appears next to the name, helping the user to select the proper Universe with which to build a report.

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Click on the title of the Universe (not the description) to launch the New Document panel to build the report….

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New > Web Intelligence Document > Fund Control Transaction Universe

…The New Document panel is launched.

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The New “New Document” Panel

In R3, the icons used to represent a Universe name, Class or sub-Class name, dimension Object and measure Object have been changed.

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The New “Tool Tip” Feature

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A Tool Tip feature has been added by which the user can point the mouse over any Object to display information such as the description, data type, etc.

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In this example, the mouse scrolled over the “Program Code Type” Object.

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The Results Objects Panel

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The Old “Result Objects” Panel

In the older release, the full names of the selected Objects are not displayed when the Object names are more than 10 characters.

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The New “Result Objects” Panel

In the new release, the full Object name is displayed even if the names are more than 10 characters.

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The Query Filters Panel

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The Old “Query Filters” Panel

The radio buttons “Prompt” and “Filter” do not appear anymore.

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The Old “Query Filters” Panel

The ‘Prompt Text’ and the ‘Properties’ are also removed.

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The New “Query Filters” Panel

…accessed by clicking on the arrow within the Object itself.

The drop down list for the list of operators...

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The New “Query Filters” Panel

“Prompt,” “Filter,” “Prompt Text,” and “Properties,” have been replaced by the “Define filter type” icon.

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The Report Output Screen

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The New Report Output Screen

“Available Objects” appear by default on the new release.

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The New Report Output Screen

Report formatting options such as Data Summary, Document Structure, and Chart / Table Types, are moved to the bottom of the panel as icons instead of the drop-down menu options of the older release.

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Document > “Save As” Window

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The Old R2 “Save As” Window

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The New R3 “Save As” Window

It does not take up the entire screen.

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The New R3 “Save As” Window

Existing Reports in a folder can be viewed by clicking on that folder name.

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Document Scheduling Window

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Old R2 Document Scheduling Window

The old version had document scheduling as a navigation tree.

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New R3 Document Scheduling Window

Under the new layout, the options for scheduling appear as a separate panel on the left.

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Non–functioning Buttons

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Non–functioning Buttons

Since Business Objects is an off-the-shelf software package, it has certain functions which the FHWA has chosen not to activate. The “Encyclopedia” button under “Open” and the “Dashboards” button are both non-functional.

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Email your feedback by July 17 to:

[email protected]

The FMIS Team will respond to all feedback (mostly in group email rather than individually) during the week of July 20-24.

Migration of Business Objects XI from R2 to R3 July 1, 2009

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