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The SharePoint Stack
by Michael Mullin, Consultant, MCAD, CRCP, MCTS
An astute young man recently asked why SharePoint always was slow loading in the
morning. He explained that every morning when he arrived at the office the first
task he would do after his computer booted up was to check his SharePoint site.
Every morning it would take a long time for the site to load, but only for the
first time. The rest of the time he did not experience any delay. Why?
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Dynamic Measure in Your Universe
by Joe Roberts, Principal Consultant, BECP, SLE, MCP
Creating a Universe can be a complex process especially
when users want to do year over year comparisons or month over month comparisons
in reports. How do you do this without either making the report design process
too complex or requiring constant updating of the Universe? The answer is measures
that are both semantically dynamic and SQL dynamic. This article takes a look at
creating measures that are both.
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Configuring WebIntelligence Default Settings
by Troy Gottfried, Sr. Consultant, CRCP, BECP
Many organizations find the default settings in Web
Intelligence tedious to re-format in each WebI document created by WebI users.
While no GUI interface exists to modify these settings, there are
‘back-end’ ways to manipulate these configurations.
This article explains the settings that can be changed, and how to change
them.
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Crystal Reports 2008 Sort Controls
by Sean Beal, Sr. Consultant, CRCP
Crystal
Reports 2008 ships with an excellent new feature called the Sort Control.
Sort Controls allow the consumer of your report to modify the sort order
of a field or fields dynamically, without making a round trip to the database.
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What's that Smell?
by Aaron Zechman, Consultant, CRCP,
MCSE
Oh
man, what is that smell. It
really ranks. And speaking of
ranking it is not the same thing as ranking using Crystal Xcelsius.
You might also hear the term of ranking as a TOP N report.
Now for those who use Xcelsius, most of the work needs done in
the Excel spreadsheet and this is no exception.
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Performance Management
by Kristen St. Jean, Sr. Consultant, CRCP
Performance Management is a BusinessObjects product that allows us to create
metrics and goals to easily analyze and track key performance indicators for our
business through the use of dashboards, scorecards and alerts
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