Business Objects – Create a new report

This training course is available to staff. You'll learn how to build a report and use grouping and creation of variables to help organise and analyse this data

Before you begin

To access Business Objects, you will need to have appropriate Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled and connect to the University's Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Follow our guide on Setting up VPN and MFA on your device

Before you book onto this course, you should have a good working knowledge of Business Objects, including creating tables based on existing data, creating variables and using calculations. We recommend that you have attended Business Objects - Analysing and structuring reports.

You should ensure you can log in to Business Objects before you attend. If you cannot do this you should ask your manager to fill out the Management Information System access form.

Delivery Method: Tutor led
Course Duration: 2 hours

What you will learn

Business Objects is a general purpose enquiry and reporting tool which allows users to access information in the University's administration databases, including iTrent and SAMIS. This course is taught through a mixture of demonstration and hands-on practice. You will learn how to:

Open a new document
Create a query in Query Panel
Apply conditions to a query
Change conditions to prompts
Create variables using IF statements
Add headers, footers and page numbers to a report

Book your place

To book your place:

Go to the Employee Self Service booking page
Select the date you wish to book
Enter any optional personal objectives you wish to achieve
Select "Save"

Course dates and times

Thursday 12 August 10.15am-12.15pm
Monday 20 September 2.15pm-4.15pm

Self-paced learning

You can access a number of training resources on using Business Objects via Moodle. Any member of staff or postgraduate student can access these and learn at their own pace.

Alternatively, you can use the following external information from SAP, the supplier of Business Objects:

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