Chapter 13. Working with BI Workspaces

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating BI workspaces
  • Working with report parts

Introduction

BI workspaces are centralized content areas that are capable of displaying multiple items from our SAP BI environment, such as Crystal Reports, Analysis Edition for OLAP, Web Intelligence documents, and Dashboards with agnostic content such as static text, HTML, or web pages external to the BI platform.

While reports are accessed mainly by navigating through folders, a BI workspace can be seen as our BI cockpit or main dashboard that displays just the most important items, such as our last scheduled reports, a sales chart from a specific report, or even data such as Web Intelligence reports or a ...

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