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Universe Delegated Measures
by Joe Roberts, Principal Consultant, BECP, SLE, MCP
New to version 3.0 in Universe design is the concept of a delegated measure. A delegated measure is designed to provide a solution for certain types of measures that do not aggregate accurately within a Web Intelligence document.
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So Was Your Business Ready for Hurricane Ike?
by Michael Wallace, VP Application Engineering, MBA
I bet you never thought we’d suffer from a hurricane here in the Midwest, but Ike showed you that anything can happen and it just might. But the reality is that the damage caused by Ike in the Midwest was not really different from damage that would be caused by a tornado, and we would all agree that tornados are a very real risk in the Midwest. A risk analysis will help you to prepare for what nature or fate brings your way, and increases your odds of surviving a disaster.
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Why Upgrade to Crystal 2008?
by Aaron Zechman, MCSE, BOCP – CR
What’s new and exciting in Crystal Reports 2008 and why should you upgrade. Of course, there are the new features such as dynamic sorting, interactive parameters, optional prompts and importing flash files but these are things that you are able to read about on the what’s new page of the Business Objects website and do not necessarily deal with some of the functionality changing inside the Crystal Reports 2008 software itself.
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Using Crystal Reports with Stored Procedures
by Sean Beal, Sr. Consultant, CRCP, MCP
Crystal Reports is a powerful tool for developing and delivering formatted print quality reports. It contains a wealth of functionality for manipulating data as well. However, there can come a point where the report you've worked on for hours, days or weeks can cease to be 'just' a report, and can start to look more like a Crystal 'application'.
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Exporting Objects in Data Services
by Thomas Hinkle, BI Consultant, CRCP, DI Instructor
One of the features of Data Services is the ability to export objects or repositories to a file or another repository. This gives us great flexibility for backups or migration to other environments.
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Assigning Content Types to Folders
by Michael C Mullin, Consultant, MCAD, CRCP, MCTS
The last time we gathered around the campfire to discuss SharePoint the subject was assigning content types to libraries and lists. As soon as the typical user learns to assign content types to a library, they want to know if they can assign content types to folders within the library.
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