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BI 4.1 Quick Start Guide (for Consumer Users)
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BI 4.1 Quick Start Guide (for Consumer Users) .......................................................................................................... 1
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................ 3
Logging in ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Home Screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 4
Documents .............................................................................................................................................................. 5
Preferences ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
Setting Up Preferences to Display Public Folders ................................................................................................... 7
Finding a document in Public Folders ..................................................................................................................... 8
Running a report ................................................................................................................................................... 10
Saving a report in Business Objects ...................................................................................................................... 14
Saving your report to Microsoft Excel (or PDF) .................................................................................................... 17
Printing a report ................................................................................................................................................... 19
Working with tabs ................................................................................................................................................ 21
Toolbar .................................................................................................................................................................. 23
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Introduction
This document provides a brief overview of the new Business Intelligence 4.1 application to help users get
started with it. It is a living document and will continue to be updated as feedback is received from users.
Logging in
When you access the new BI4 environment via the url https://www.bo.scot.nhs.uk/BOE/BI you will initially be
presented with the log in screen below:
Please log in using the same login details as you used in BOXI 3.1.
Your existing documents will be migrated from BOXI 3.1 to BI4.
Navigation is different in this environment and will require a period of familiarisation.
Guidance to allow users to quickly become familiar with the main new features of navigation around the new
environment is provided in the sections below.
Please ensure that you don’t
change this from LDAP
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Home Screen
Once you have logged in you will be presented with the Home screen, shown below.
You will notice that it is now possible to directly access your recently viewed and run reports via the My Recently
Viewed Documents and My Recently Run Documents panels.
The Documents and Preferences options are indicated in red since they are covered in greater detail in the next
two sections.
Home Tab
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Documents
Your own folders and documents can now be located by clicking on the Documents tab.
Select the Documents tab as shown in the Home Screen screenshot above and as indicated below:
You will be presented with something similar to the screen below.
Documents Tab
In the previous version of Business Objects, the Public Folders (where all the prebuilt reports are located) and
documents were listed alongside your own folders and documents. In this version in order to view Public
Folders you need to click on the area indicated by “Access Public Folders here” in the screenshot above .
Preferences
As with BOXI 3.1 there are two different modes for viewing and modifying reports, HTML and Applet (Java)
mode. We recommend that you use HTML mode. HTML offers a lightweight, stable and fast viewing interface.
The screenshots in this document have been created using HTML mode.
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In order to set your Preferences to use HTML mode or to check them, please select
Preferences. You will be presented with the screen below:
Select the Web Intelligence tab and on the screen that appears and ensure that the first and second settings –
View and Modify ‐ are set to HTML, as shown below.
1. Click on the
Web
Intelligence
tab
2. Ensure
HTML is
selected
3. Ensure
HTML is
selected
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Additionally, in the General tab make sure that Set Document Viewing Location is set to: “In
the BI launch pad portal as tabs” and choose Save or Save & Close as appropriate.
Setting Up Preferences to Display Public Folders
If your preference is to initially be presented with Public Folders rather than My Favourites whenever you access
the Documents tab, you can set up access to a particular folder in Preferences, as shown in the screenshot
below:
1. Click on the
General tab
2. Ensure In
the BI Launch
pad portal as
tabs is
selected
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Finding a document in Public Folders
We have described above, how to navigate to Public Folders.
In this section we will explain how to find a document stored in Public Folders. We will use the example of a
document stored in the PRISMS Public Folder area but the same process applies to all Public Folders (and differs
only in the folder structure for the data mart).
Firstly click on the + to the left of Public Folders
Next, click on the + to the left of Scotland.
Click on the +
symbol next to
Public Folders
Click on the +
symbol next to
Scotland
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The next step is to click on the + to the left of PRISMS.
Next, click on the + to the left of Corporate Reports.
Click on the +
symbol next to
PRISMS
Click on the +
symbol next to
Corporate
Reports
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The report we want to run is in the Generic savings Reports folder. To see the content of
that folder, click on it:
Please note there is also search functionality adjacent to the log off button above.
Running a report
We want to run the Scotland Generic Savings report. To open it double‐click on the document name.
Click on the
Generic
Savings
Reports
To open the
Scotland
Generic Savings
report double‐
click it
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As with all prebuilt reports, at the moment the report doesn’t contain any data.
To run the report, left‐click on the Refresh icon.
This report has Prompts so the Prompts window will be displayed. The first prompt is already ‘selected’ – in this
example the ‘Select Report From Month’.
To select the month, point to it and double‐click on it – in this example July 2015.
Click on the
Refresh icon
Double‐click on
July 2015 to
select it
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Click on the second prompt text (i.e. on ‘Select Report To Month”)
In this example, we want it to run to September 2015, so double‐click on this option.
Responses have been made to both prompts, so click Ok to continue running the report.
Click on the
Select Report to
Month link
Double‐click on
September
2015 to select
it
Click OK
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You will see a window confirming that the report is running (i.e. it is ‘Retrieving Data’)
Here is the completed report. You can click on the tabs to see the data.
Click on this
tab to see the
Scotland data
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Saving a report in Business Objects
Once you have run the report, you may wish to save it – e.g. save a copy with the data in one of your personal
folders.
The first step is to click on the down arrow to the right of the Save icon.
Next, click on Save As.
Click on the
down arrow to
the right of the
Save icon
Click on Save
As
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Note that, by default, it opens in the Public Folder area. To save it in your own storage area,
click on Favorites Folder.
Next, click on the + to the left of Favorites Folder.
Click on the
Favorites
Folder to see
your folders
Click on the +
to the left of
Favorites
Folder
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Then select the folder you wish to save the document to by clicking on it – in this example
‘Saved reports’
In this example we haven’t changed the document name, but you could do so if you wished.
To finish saving click on Save.
Click on the
Saved reports
to select it
Click on Save
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Saving your report to Microsoft Excel (or PDF)
This process is a little different to the process you will have previously used to save your data to Microsoft Excel
or Adobe Reader (PDF). You can save your data to an Excel or PDF document before or after you have saved it
in your My Favorites folder. In this example we will save the data to Microsoft Excel.
The first step is to click on the Export icon.
Next, click on Export Document As and then click on Excel (.xls)
Click on the
Export icon
1. Click on the
Export
Document As
2. Click on the
Excel (.xls)
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Next, click on Open. Please note that, depending on your version of Internet Explorer and
Windows, the ‘Open’ dialogue box may not appear as below.
This will open the document in Microsoft Excel and you can save it to an appropriate location (remembering that
it may contain confidential data).
Click on Open
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Printing a report
To print your report, click on the print icon.
Next, click on Open. Please note that, depending on your version of Internet Explorer and Windows, the ‘Open’
dialogue box may not appear as below.
Click on the
Print icon
Click on Open
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This will open the document in Adobe Reader (PDF). You would then select File and Print as
you would for any other PDF file.
Please note that there are different versions of Adobe Acrobat and this may affect this functionality.
1. Click on File
2. Click on Print
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Working with tabs
Unlike the previous version of Business Objects, documents, etc, open in Tabs.
In the screenshot below you can see that there are three tabs you can click on – Home, Documents and the
Scotland Generic Savings document.
You can move from one tab to another by clicking on it – in the example below we have clicked on the
Documents tab which takes you back to your my Favorites area.
Three tabs are
currently open
Click on
Documents to
move to that
tab
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To close a tab (e.g. close the report you have been working on), click on the cross as shown
below.
Please note that you are not warned to save before closing a tab.
There is one additional feature relating to Tabs that it is worth highlighting. If there is a report that you use
regularly you can ‘Pin’ it to the Tab bar so that each time you log on to Business Objects that document sits
alongside your Documents and Home tabs. To pin a document, click on the pin icon, as shown below.
Click here to
Close a tab
Click here to
Pin a tab
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Toolbar
When you open a document, as in the example above, there is a toolbar. Here is a description of each of the tools
Icon Description
Create a new document (Ctrl +N)
Open a document (Ctrl +O)
Save menu (Ctrl +S)
Print – Export to PDF for Printing (Ctrl +P)
Find text in tables and cells on page (Ctrl +F)
History – list of dates corresponding to the instances of the scheduled documents
Export v‐ PDF, Excel, CSV
Send to – Email , Inbox
Undo / Redo
Refresh – one or more data providers
Track – Activate or deactivate tracking changes
Filter bar – Click to hide/show filter bar
Freeze – keep the header or a portion of the table visible while the rest of the table scrolls
Outline – shows or hides the outline option for folding and unfolding elements