SAP Business Objects Supervisor User Module SCHEDULING/PUBLISHING RELATED

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SUPERVISOR is the product you need in order to set up and maintain a secure environment for Business Objects products. It provides you with a powerful and easy-to-use structure for distributing information to be shared by all users. This information is centralized through relational data accounts called repositories.

It is a relational data account created on a database like Oracle, MS-Access, Informix, DB2 etc when the BO is installed. It will have all the BO system tables, metadata about designer, Information about universes, the actual universes, user documents and most importantly security information.

A Business Objects repository is a set of data structures stored on a database. A repository makes it possible to share the resources necessary for client/server architecture. To ensure security and manage user resources, a repository comprises three types of domains:
• A security domain, which contain the definition of the other domains as well as the definition of users

• Universe domains, which are meta-models of related databases, containing a description of the data to be accessed

• Document domains, which contain the structures for storing shared documents and for executing tasks according to a time stamped definition.

Create the Business Objects repository.

Define users and user groups, as well as assign profiles to them. User profiles include user identification (user name and password), the products and modules they can work with, the universes they can access, and the documents that they can share.

Control user access to Business Objects products, and manage the exchange and distribution of the universe and documents of all the users.

The data source (Query) is called as the data provider.

Yes.

Yes. In the format/properties one has to set the option ‘read as html’.

Yes. Using some html coding in the parameters to be passed while drill through one can drill thru from one BO report to another in the same BO document.

Yes.

Metadata reporting of BO is possible. BO provides a separate universe which actually contains repository tables, objects etc. Using this Universe one can do metadata reporting in BO

It is a Website that uses ‘push’ technology, also known as web casting, to keep subscribers abreast of up-
to-date information.

Each BO channel is associated with a BROADCAST AGENT, itself associated with a user group in the BO
repository.

One BROADCAST AGENT can have several channels.

General supervisors and supervisors can create, modify and remove channels using SUPERVISOR.

Each channel uses a Channel Definition Format (CDF) file as an index to the Website.

The first time a document is published in the channel, the CDF file is created based on the template. It is then updated every time a new document is published in the channel.

BO users can schedule a document to be published in one or more channels by a BROADCAST AGENT.

They can only publish in channels associated with the BROADCAST AGENT of groups to which they belong.

When BROADCAST AGENT publishes a BO document in a channel, it converts the document to HTML format and simultaneously updates the channel’s CDF file so channel subscribers via IE4 can view the
document.

There are 2 ways of publishing BO reports on website
1) User who has publishing rights for a document can publish that document for other users.
2) Documents can be published via a scheduler for Business Object known as BCA or Broadcast Agent.

BROADCAST AGENT provides scheduled or batch processing of BUSINESSOBJECTS and WEBINTELLIGENCE documents. All the end user has to do is send a document to BROADCAST AGENT using BUSINESSOBJECTS or WEBINTELLIGENCE, and specify scheduling and distribution information. No understanding of the server configuration is required.
BROADCAST AGENT lets users not only automate simple actions such as refreshing and printing documents, but control processing with conditions which trigger distribution when pre-defined events occur. Users can choose to publish documents to the repository, on a web server or on the server file system. Users with access to the repository can view documents that BROADCAST AGENT has processed in BUSINESSOBJECTS or WEBINTELLIGENCE. BROADCAST AGENT supports HTML publishing on the web, on channels and on your intranet or extranet.