1. Universe Design
Jack Fritz CTFL

2. The Alio Connection
Connect to the Alio Database with the aliobi user and the ALIO service
Connects to database to run queries
1 connection per universe
BOGUS Connection available to use to allow connections at login level

3. New Universe: Universe Parameters
Adding the Name, Description, Connection

4. Table Browser Right Click > Tables Navigate to HRS
Choose tables to add

5. Linking Tables Together
Drag Employee_No to Employee_No to create JOIN
Double click on Join to Edit Join
Set Cardinality
Set Outer Join
Outer Join allows you to pull data in the first Table if data doesn’t exist in second table

6. Create Classes Create a Class
Right click classes pane to create a new class
Drag folder from tables pane to classes pane
This brings all table objects and may bring more information then needed

7. Creating Objects Right click and choose new
Drag field from table to class folder
Objects create the select statements
Parse can verify the statement is valid

8. Subclasses and Objects
Tables and Fields that are linked/joined to the primary table
HRS.EMPLOYEE_MISCELLANEOUS
Sub table of HRS.EMPLOYEE_MASTER
Linked/Joined by Employee NO
Fields can be in the Employee Information class or a subclass

9. Measures Objects used for numerical data
Automatically sum grouped data
Must add joins to a context
A context is a group of joins that are specific to the measure you create
Tells Business Objects how to group data to be summed

10. The Measure Table
Right click your table and choose alias to create the measure table
Add _MSR to the end.
This is a WSC Standard to show measure tables
Join the Table and MSR table using ROWID
Creates a 1 to 1 join so data does not get duplicated
Ex. HRS.EMPLOYEE_PAYS.ROWID=HRS_EMPLOYEE_PAYS_MSR.ROWID

11. Context for Join Right click on join > Context Create a new context
Select Joins to include in the Context

12. The Measure Delete the object from the folder
Drag the object from the MSR table to the folder
Double click the object
ADD SUM(NVL( to front and ,0)) to end of select
SUM(NVL(HRS_EMPLOYEE_PAYS_ MSR.HOURLY_RATE,0))
This will create the Measure to Sum the data

13. Conditions Add Conditions to classes and subclasses
Available at the reporting level
Can be automatically applied to the class they are in
Show in the WHERE portion of the SQL Statement

14. Save and Export
To make the universe available you will need to Save and Export the universe
To modify the universe you will want to import the universe

15. Universe Standards Top level classes are master tables
Subclasses are linked/joined tables to the table/class they are in
Try to keep a Top Down strategy when creating classes and subclasses
Reporting objects should follow the same strategy when building reports
Drag items to arrange them in any order
WSC tries to make all objects alphabetical
Measures and Filters are added to the bottom of the class
Custom Universes do not have built in Security like WSC Universes