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[. . . ] BusinessObjects Encyclopedia Installation and User Guide BusinessObjects Encyclopedia XI Windows Patents Business Objects owns the following U. S. patents, which may cover products that are offered and sold by Business Objects: 5, 555, 403, 6, 247, 008 B1, 6, 578, 027 B2, 6, 490, 593 and 6, 289, 352. Business Objects, the Business Objects logo, Crystal Reports, and Crystal Enterprise are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects SA or its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] The name of each metric is also a hyperlink, enabling you to see the value of the metric trended through time. Usage 22 Encyclopedia Installation and User Guide Encyclopedia Installation and User Guide Creating and Maintaining Business Questions chapter 4 Creating and Maintaining Business Questions Introduction Introduction A business question is a business-oriented query that is answered by one or more reports in InfoView. Business questions are linked to relevant reports, so by selecting a question, the user is given the choice of one or more reports that will help answer that question. This chapter describes how to maintain the business questions that are stored in and used by Encyclopedia. An example of the Business Questions tab is shown below. From here you can: · · Click + next to a business question to display the list of reports that are associated with it. Click Edit to maintain the business questions associated with this report. You do this report by: · · 24 Creating a question Associating questions with a report Encyclopedia Installation and User Guide Creating and Maintaining Business Questions Creating a question 4 · · Editing a question Deleting a question Once you have finished maintaining the business questions, click OK to return to the Encyclopedia summary page. Creating a question To create a question: 1. Enter a new question in the Business Question box at the bottom of the panel. Encyclopedia adds the question to the Available pane. Note: For this question to be useful to Encyclopedia users, you must now associate it with one or more reports. See "Associating questions with a report" on page 25 for more information. Click OK. Associating questions with a report To associate a business question with a report: 1. Open the report with which you want to associate a question. Click the Business Questions tab in Encyclopedia. The Edit page appears. Encyclopedia Installation and User Guide 25 4 Creating and Maintaining Business Questions Associating questions with a report The Selected pane displays the questions that are already associated with the report. Search for the questions you want to associate with the report: · · 5. Type some text in the text box above the Available pane and click the Search arrow. Encyclopedia displays a list of all the questions containing the text you entered. Click the Search arrow without entering any text to display a list of all available questions. Add or remove questions associated with the report as follows: To. . . Associate a question with the report Associate all available questions with the report Click. . . > 26 Encyclopedia Installation and User Guide Creating and Maintaining Business Questions Editing a question 4 To. . . Remove an association for the report Remove all associations for the report 6. Click. . . < << Click OK to confirm your actions. Editing a question To edit a question: 1. Select the question you want to update in the Available pane. [. . . ] 2. Select the storyline you want to delete from the list. Click Delete. Encyclopedia deletes the storyline. This action deletes the storyline completely, so it is no longer available from any of the other reports that formed part of the storyline. The reports themselves are not deleted. 40 Encyclopedia Installation and User Guide Business Objects Information Resources appendix A Documentation and information services Documentation and information services Business Objects offers a full documentation set covering its products and their deployment. [. . . ]