Page 1 – Web Intelligence – Setting Up Interactive Elements

The following lesson contains screenshots of the actual BusinessObjects 4.1 application, with text and narration explaining how to use BusinessObjects to perform certain functions.

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Page 2 – Change the Format of Text or Numbers in a Document

Web Intelligence enables you to adjust the text and number formatting of the values that appear in cells and tables in your report.

In this tutorial, you will change the text and number formatting for the cells in the header of your report.

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Page 3 – Change the Format of Text or Numbers in a Document

To see the options for changing the formatting for text and numbers, use the Formatting tab.

Click the Formatting tab.

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Page 4 – Change Header Text Formatting

Let’s change the text formatting in the header to a bold font and dark teal color.

Select the text box.

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Page 5 – Change Header Text Formatting (continued)

Click Bold.

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Page 6 – Change Header Text Formatting (continued)

Click the Font Color list.

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Page 7 – Change Header Text Formatting (continued)

Click Teal.

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Page 8 – Change Number Formatting

Select the date field.

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Page 9 – Change Number Formatting (continued)

Click the Numbers tab.

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Page 10 – Change Number Formatting (continued)

Click the Numbers list.

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Page 11 – Change Number Formatting (continued)

Select this date format.

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Page 12 – Change Number Formatting (continued)

Note the date is now formatted per your selection.

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Page 13 - Conclusion

This concludes this lesson.

For more BusinessObjects 4.1 tutorials, select the link below.

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