There are two ways to transfer data from a report to Excel Can you describe them?

-- Select View Data from the Deski

-- Select the data provider which is the source of ur report.
-- Now select the "Export" present in the menu options.
-- After going to the export page ,  check box the   "Export to Local file format"
and select the '.xls' file format..
--after exporting the report we need to schedule the report there we can select the
options(pdf,excel,webi,email,file location...)
there are 2 ways:
1. Export option available in the view data tab.
2. Go to Edit Tab --> copy all --> paste the copied data in a excel.

[Ways to Trasfer data from Report to Excel:

1. Use "Save as" after opening the Report and then select Save as Type xls.
2. Use Macro in the Deski Report. Macros can be used to Refresh the report, Save the Report in
Repository or Some FTP location or Personal Folders, Inbox, etc. and in the format as desired by you.
Create a Macro , Run the Macro and it will save the report at the location and format
(.rep, .rpt, .xls, .pdf, etc) desired by you.
3. Another simple method is to Schedule the Report and give the Save as Type Excel with the
preferred Shared folder.]

can you please clarify the difference between compatible and incompatible objects?

when you define context in Designer you should tell Query that which context to follow if more then
two paths available.
If you are selecting the object to different tables and one of the object is out of context path/table
you get the Error "Incompatible Object". and Compatibility you will define when you making
aggregate table or derive table

Designer  - Objects are incompatible if they are in different contexts.

Webi   - Objects that are in different data providers and are not linked

we can select or choose compatible n incompatible objects through aggregator navigation in the
designer. With this method the performance increases tremendously.
Instead of checking for each n every object only the compatible objects are only looked for aggregate
awareness.
year:-month,quarter,week,day are compatible but customer class is incompatible
Designer->Tool->Aggregate Navigation.

[1.When an object is at the same or higher level of aggregation as the table, it

is compatible with the table.
2.When an object is at a lower level of aggregation than the table (or if it is not
at all related to the table), it is incompatible with the table]

What is the difference between COGNOS 8 & Business Objects & which business
intelligent tool is best for reporting purpose?
We could not able to say BO is good or Cognos is good, but both the tools are BI tools, there you
WebI and Report net, you can able to choose only according to your(client) requirements,
COGNOS is a bit costly so less number of companies are using. BO is widely used in comparison to
COGNOS. Cognos 8 Framework manager automatically generates database properties i.e. It can
generate the relations between tables [Query Subjects] automatically. BO Designer does not have
this property.

Basic difference is COGNOS is for MOLAP and BO is for ROLAP.

In BO also we can generate report from multiple data sources by merging two data providers at
report level, however with universe we can connect to only one database unless they are not linked
universes.

[Cognos 8 is a ROLAP tool, it can only be considered MOLAP when reporting on Powercubes which
are version 7 products. When Cognos updates the powercubes feature that will make a small
differnce.

In practise Cognos tend to be deployed on a Unix environment and BO on Windows but this is more
what I have seen on customer sites rather than anything the vendors would ever recommend. I've
deployed multiple Cognos BI environments from scratch, most of which have been Windows-based.
Some larger clietns use UNIX /Mainframe back-ends, but my experience is that these are less
common. Also, check-out 8.4, Cognos Powercubes are back!!]

give the notes and functionalities of cascading prompts,@script in business objects

cascading prompts :cascading prompts means one prompt depends on another prompt.. if suppose
u want select one district.its depends on state.then it depends on country..so one prompt depends on
another..its work as first come the prompt of district when ever we going select value.automatically
coming the state prompt..then country prompt..when ever we select the contry it goes to state then
district.
In Universe designer Go to Tools->List of Values-> Create cascading list of values.
here u have option to define the Cascading list of values, suppose if u want to create cascading list like Year-
>Quater->Month, then select the heirachy like this and click on create cascading list of values button and then
save and  export the universe.
Now create the new report just for test, then drag Month is the condition pane and use this object as a Prompt.
when u run the report U will get cascading LOV.

[@script: its belongs to vba application

In BO XI R2 Designer, if you have Hierarchy created on year, quarter, month, week and so on, create
a prompt on every object and then you have an option to Create cascading list of values in Tools
Menu -> List of values...
So create one and the universe is ready with cascading prompts. Export it to the repository and
create a report inserting the week object. That will ask for the relavant month, quarter and then year.
That's your cascading prompt.]

[@script: It is useful for VBA macro. You can specify VBA macro each time query that includes
objects.

@script('variable name','type','script_name');
Cascadingpromts are not available with BO6.5.1 version these are avilable with BOXiR2.
In that version on list of values>>cascadinpromt is available.
There is no menu option in BO 6.5 to create cascading prompts just like BO XI R2, however in BO
6.5, you can manually edit the LOVs of the objects creating cascading prompts by inserting a where
condition.
@script -  It returns the result of a VBA Macro (Visual Basic for Applications Macro).  
-   It runs a script each time when an object is using @script function is included in the query
@prompt: is useful to create dynamic filter.
@prompt('message','type','lov','mono/multi','free/consistent','persistent/nonpersistent',
default)
cascading prompt: one prompt is depending on another prompt.
to develop cascading prompt then we need to develop cascading list of values in universe.
generate that cascading lov and export the universe.
open webi - open that universe name-drag and drop into query filters-operator is = and operand is
prompt- run query.
@script: It is useful to execute scripting languages. (java script,vb script)
@script('variable','type','script name')
]

I have three predefined prompts. In a report it will come randomly. How they will come
in a specified format?
The Prompts will appear in the alphabetical order.
To make them appear in the order of our requirement, need to prefix a numerical with the prompt
[@prompt("enter the month","a" ,multi/mono, free/constrained, USER.2)

then this prompt performs as first one .Like that you can define your own prompt.
by default they follow ascending order...@prompt('1.enter...','','',)
                                                                 @prompt('2.enter..','','',)
]

can we apply Rank and Sort at a time on a single report

No we can't apply rank and sort at a time on one object in one single report.If we try to apply , BO
asks if you want to over write the previous condition.

[We can DO It yar,

First apply the shorting on the column you want to apply the ranking. Then select the column it will
ask you that The sorting is done already in this column Do you want to Overwrite it -> Say Yes.
Then Specify the Rank Top 10 or Bottom 10 .
Hi We cannot apply ranking on a particular object if filters and sorting is already set on that object
and moreover ranking is done only on measures.

Ranking function overwrites the sorting function. ranking has priority than sorting .we apply ranking
on dimension based on the measure like if you want to display top 100 sales revenue generated by a
product or bottom 100 sales generated by a product.sorting is not based on measure or anything it
will sort in ascending ,descending or custom order]

CMC and CCM

CCM is separate tool for server management tool.

CMC is overall management tool which is web based tool we can manage from anywhere. and we can
not start/ stop / restart the CMC server from CMC.