Doing Basic Operations

This chapter describes the basic operations you perform in Designer to create, modify, and update universes. The following topics are covered:

·            Starting Designer

·            Importing a Universe

·            Opening a Universe

·            Exporting a Universe

·            Saving a Universe

·            Creating a Universe

·            Setting Universe Parameters

·            Using the Designer User Interface

·            Using Find and Replace

·            Organizing the Table Display

·            Selecting Schema Display Options

·            Printing a Universe

Note.png$INSTALLDIR variable in this guide

In this guide the variable $INSTALLDIR is the install root path for the data access files used by Designer and Web Intelligence. This is the Business Objects installation path with the operating system sub directory that contains the Designer executable and the data access drivers.

Under Windows$INSTALLDIR = \\...\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 11.5\win32_x86.

For example C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 11.5\win32_x86.