Book Description
This substantial book explains almost every aspect of creating documents and reports with Business Objects. It contains over 1000 screenshots and many step-by-step examples! Robert Schmidt, who has written several books on the subject and has trained thousand's of students to use Business Objects, authors it. Robert has also worked with many large companies to help them create their reports. This is a very thorough book and is great for beginners and intermediate users. Advanced users can also find some valuable advice and useful formulas.


From the Publisher
This is the third edition of a great book. I wrote the first edition in 1997, because I was frustrated with the lack of information available to help me create reports with BusinessObjects. Since that time, I have taught many thousands of people to use BusinessObjects. During this time, I began to realize how people wanted to learn. I then incorporated these realizations in the next edition of Creating Documents with BusinessObjects in 2002. Many people loved Creating Documents with BusinessObjects 5.1. It showed them how to create the different types of reports, how to format their reports, how to use formulas, how to retrieve data and much more. A person could read the book through and become very good at using BusinessObjects. However, a few readers complained that they could not find all of the examples when using the book as a reference. Therefore, I authored the latest edition. The latest edition has been completely rewritten and reformatted to make the topics more understandable and easily found. We have improved many of the examples and added many more. We have added headers and tabs to each page, so that topics of interest can be quickly located. In addition, we now have highlighted tips, cautions and notes throughout the entire book. We have also greatly improved on the index and added two new ones. We now have a general index to find general topics, a comment index to locate tips and an example index to locate examples. This is truly the best edition of Creating Documents with BusinessObjects thus far. Its purpose is still the same as it was in 1997 ¡V to empower people with the information and skills that they need to create reports with BusinessObjects.


From the Author
This is the third edition of a great book. I wrote the first edition in 1997, because I was frustrated with the lack of information available to help me create reports with BusinessObjects. Since that time, I have taught many thousands of people to use BusinessObjects. During this time, I began to realize how people wanted to learn. I then incorporated these realizations in the next edition of Creating Documents with BusinessObjects in 2002. Many people loved Creating Documents with BusinessObjects 5.1. It showed them how to create the different types of reports, how to format their reports, how to use formulas, how to retrieve data and much more. A person could read the book through and become very good at using BusinessObjects. However, a few readers complained that they could not find all of the examples when using the book as a reference. Therefore, I authored the latest edition. The latest edition has been completely rewritten and reformatted to make the topics more understandable and easily found. We have improved many of the examples and added many more. We have added headers and tabs to each page, so that topics of interest can be quickly located. In addition, we now have highlighted tips, cautions and notes throughout the entire book. We have also greatly improved on the index and added two new ones. We now have a general index to find general topics, a comment index to locate tips and an example index to locate examples. This is truly the best edition of Creating Documents with BusinessObjects thus far. Its purpose is still the same as it was in 1997 ¡V to empower people with the information and skills that they need to create reports with BusinessObjects.


About the Author
Robert Schmidt has written several books and training manuals on how to use BusinessObjects. He was the first to write a book on the first scripting language for BusinessObjects. This book was used by BusinessObjects to train both internal company employees and their customers. Thousands of BusinessObjects analysts have used Mr. Schmidt's books on BusinessObjects since 1998, when he wrote his first book – Creating Documents with BusinessObjects 4.1. Since that time, he has spoken with many readers and incorporated their feedback into the latest edition of Creating Documents with BusinessObjects. In addition to writing books and training manuals, Robert also trains and consults. He has trained thousands of people to use BusinessObjects. Many of these people have gone on to become power users of the product and have ended up supporting their entire department. Robert has consulted at many fortune 100 companies and continues to consult and mentor at companies throughout the United States. Mr. Schmidt's motivation for writing books, training and mentoring is to empower all users of BusinessObjects with certain knowledge and skills that should allow them to become better BusinessObjects document designers. He has often stated that his books are better than aspirin and they get you home faster.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Creating Documents with BusinessObjects was designed with one idea in mind - to help people create and work with documents and reports using the Business Objects Reporter. This means that all 540+ pages contain explanations, illustrations, examples, and/or tips that will help help you to work with Business Objects documents. There are no distracting topics on any other Business Objects module.

The new edition of Creating Documents with BusinessObjects is based on our two previous versions for 4.1 and 5.1, which thousands of readers have found helpful. However, this new version contains many more examples that illustrate how to perform tasks in BusinessObjects. There are even two extra indexes to help you locate procedures and examples quickly.

The new edition now contains over 1,000 screenshots and many step-by-step examples that help readers to become confident at using Business Objects. One of the book's strongest appeals is that it not only describes the basics of using the product, but it also tries to describe what can go wrong. The author has done this, because he feels that many books and courses just give the basic procedures and leave it up to readers to figure out any complications that might occur. This book is also compelling because it thoroughly describes how to use formulas in a report to achieve simple and complex calculations. It explains how to use the Where and Context operators, If-Then-Else logic and almost every function available in Business Objects.

About the Author:

Robert Schmidt has written several books and training manuals on how to use Business Objects. He was the first to write a book on the first scripting language for Business Objects. This book was used by Business Objects to train both internal company employees and their customers.

Thousands of Business Objects analysts have used Mr. Schmidt's books on Business Objects since 1998, when he wrote his first book – Creating Documents with BusinessObjects 4.1. Since that time, he has spoken with many readers and incorporated their feedback into the latest edition of Creating Documents with BusinessObjects.

In addition to writing books and training manuals, Robert also trains and consults. He has trained thousands of people to use Business Objects. Many of these people have gone on to become power users of the product and have ended up supporting their entire department. Robert has consulted at many fortune 100 companies and continues to consult and mentor at companies throughout the United States.