User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS SET ANALYSIS 6.5.1

[. . . ] Set Analysis User's Guide Set Analysis 6. 5. 1 2 Set Analysis User Guide Copyright Trademarks Copyright © 2004 Business Objects. Business Objects, the Business Objects logo, Crystal Reports, and Crystal Enterprise are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects S. A. or its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] This can be very useful, for example, if you have created several mailing campaigns and you want to ensure that no contact is mailed more than once. The distinct model allows you to define a priority for each set and ensure that each member is allocated to only one set. Refer to section Distinct groups on page 40 for more details. - Rebuild - This type is a group of sets with or without similar content that can be refreshed at a defined time interval. At the time of refresh, the dependencies are taken into account. A rebuild group can be scheduled and all sets under it are taken into account. For example, if set A is dependent on Set B before it is refreshed, rebuild type group takes care of that. Refer to section Rebuild groups on page 41 for more details. - Taxonomic - This is also a group of set for classification and analysis purpose. Taxonomic groups cannot be scheduled but can be only used as a way of classifying sets in all places where sets can be selected in a tree list. These groups are also used in group benchmark analytic. For example, if you want to club all sets related to high income spenders then you can define the group as taxonomic and include the relevant sets into that. Click Apply to save the new defined group. Once the group name is saved, you can now enter the group content. Group content is nothing but adding sets. Group 40 Set Analysis User Guide Distinct groups When you select a distinct group follow the steps below: 1. As you select a distinct group the page below appears. After applying the definition, use the Edit icon to enter the add set screen. The next screen displays the available sets to be selected. Build Order Display Order 2. Sets can be moved to the group in 1 of 2 ways: - The > < buttons add and remove individual sets - The >> and << buttons move/remove all the sets from one pane to another. Once the required sets have been added to the group, the user can reorder according to: - Build Order ­ Changes the order that the sets are built in The order in which sets are listed as component items for a group determines the priority order for the calculation of distinct items. The group is made up of all the items from the first set plus only those items from subsequent sets that have not already Sets Set Analysis User Guide 41 been allocated to the group. Thus, the first set has the highest priority - Display Order ­ Changes the order that the sets are displayed in e. g Within a BusinessObjects report Once the sets have been added to the group it is ready for processing. The group is processed on creation, The group is reprocessed after: · A set is added to or subtracted from the group · The build order is changed · The display order is changed · One of the sets within the group is refreshed. [. . . ] Members are those entities that currently reside in the set as of the most recent set refresh. A Metric is a mechanism that allows you to track a measure over time for a particular subset of a set. Migration is movement of individual customers from one set to another. Percent change is the relative change between 2 values of a single metric. [. . . ]