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Lesson 1 – What is Discoverer 2000

Discover 2000 features

What is a multidimensional database

Discoverer 2000 components

Practice database

LESSON 2 – CREATING THE BUSINESS AREA

Launching and loading a business are into the Administration Edition of Discoverer 2000

Creating a new business area

Editing the business area

Administration Tasks

Creating a New Business area

Editing Item Properties

Creating Joins

Creating Calculated Items

Creating Conditions

Creating Hierarchies

Creating an Item Class

Creating Folders

Creating Summary Folders

Granting Business Area Access

Customizing Names

Tab pages

End User Layer

Practice

LESSON 3 – INTRODUCTION TO DISCOVERER 2000 USER EDITION

Launching Discoverer 2000 User Edition

Creating a new workbook using the Workbook Wizard

Step - 2 Item Selection dialog

Step - 3 Item arrangement dialog box

Step - 4 Conditions dialog box

Step - 5 Sort and Page Break dialog box

Step - 6 – Calculated Items dialog box

Saving and retrieving a workbook

Practice

LESSON 4 – LAYOUTS

Table layout

Table page-detail layout

Crosstab layouts

Drilling on a crosstab layout

Crosstab Page-Detail layout

Practice

LESSON 5 – SHEETS

Creating new sheets

Creating a sheet using the Duplicate as Table options

Creating a sheet using the Duplicate as Crosstab options

Maintaining the sheets

Modifying the sheet tab names

Maintaining the sheet title

Other sheet maintenance functions

Using the Edit Sheet function

Practice

LESSON 6 – FORMATTING THE LAYOUT

The Formatting toolbar

Format menu options

The Format/Data menu selection

The Format/Headings menu option

The Format/Exceptions menu option

The Format/Columns menu selection

The Format/Sheet menu selection

Changing the column width on the sheet

Practice

LESSON 7 – THE ANALYSIS TOOLBAR

Summary value tools

Calculated Item tools

Condition tools

Practice

LESSON 8 – GRAPHS

Turning your sheet into a graph

Creating Your Initial Graph

Graph Components

Graph Styles

Other format techniques

Using Grids

Three D graphs

Format by dragging

Drilling

Practice

LESSON 9 – USING DATABASE FUNCTIONS IN CALCULATED ITEMS

Creating a Calculated Attribute

Registering the Function

Creating the Item

Practice