User`s guide

• Build a separate Business View to provide lists of values for all of your reports. The only fields that
you need in this Business View are those that you use for prompting. See the Business Views
Administrator's Guide for information about how to create a Business View.
• Create managed list-of-values objects for each dynamic prompt that you intend to use in your report.
These objects are visible to Crystal Reports users when they design parameters and prompts. If
you need a list of values for a Country > Region > City hierarchy, and a Country pick list, you can
satisfy both needs with a single list-of-values object.
Defining your list-of-values objects in Business View Manager has the following benefits:
• You have control over the metadata that is used to define the prompting list of values.
• You can apply row-level security (if desired) to the Business View that is used for prompting.
• You can separate metadata design from report design. A metadata designer can be responsible for
authoring the list-of-values definitions, and the report designer can be responsible for authoring the
report.
• This method minimizes the number of metadata objects you need to create to support prompting.
21.9.3 Converting unmanaged reports to managed reports
You can convert an unmanaged report to a managed report in the following ways:
• Publish one or more reports with the Publishing Wizard.
• Save the report to SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform using the Crystal ReportsSave
As command.
• Create a new report object from within the BI launch pad portal.
• Create a new report object from within the Central Management Console portal.
In all of these cases, these actions are carried out on the prompt object in your unmanaged report:
• List of values (LOV) objects that are defined in the report are converted to repository lists of values.
A Business View, Business Element, Data Foundation, and Data Connection object is created.
• If the same LOV object already exists in the repository, no duplicate object is created. Instead, your
report references the existing LOV object.
• LOV objects that are repository-based are unchanged.
• Prompt groups that are defined in the report are converted to repository prompt groups.
• Prompt groups that are repository-based are unchanged.
• All of the new repository-based Business View objects, LOV objects, and prompt-group objects are
created in the repository folder called Dynamic Cascading Prompts.
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