Understanding a Document’s Structure
Web Intelligence documents have a flexible document structure that allows you to view and interact with different data sets in multiple ways. A document is more than just a report.
A document may contain the following components:
• One or more universes, which are typically SQL queries that extract information from a data warehouse or other data source.
• A result set in which the results of the queries are stored as a microcube that allow for drilling and slicing and dicing.
• One or more formatted reports. Figure 17-1 (shown earlier in the chapter) contains two report tabs at the bottom of the workspace: Sales by Prod Line and Sales by State. Each report may be based on a different universe or query, or ...
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