Dave's Adventures in Business Intelligence

I recently started participating more on the SAP SCN forums. One question in particular served to remind me that not everybody has a decade (or more) of experience with the tools, and sometimes we need to answer beginner questions too.

For example, someone asked a question along the lines of the following:

I have a document with three data providers but there are four reports. How can I know which data provider goes with which report, and why are there more reports than data providers?

That wasn’t the exact question, but that was essentially what they were asking. For someone that is new to BusinessObjects it’s a reasonable question to ask. Especially if they come from a spreadsheet background where everything is right up in front. I thought it might be interesting to set up an Entity – Relationship Diagram for the various document components to help clarify how things work together. Continue reading “ER Diagram For Web Intelligence Document Structure”