User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS QUESTION DESIGNER XI RELEASE 2 FOR WINDOWS

[. . . ] Question Designer Question Designer XI R2 Windows Patents Business Objects owns the following U. S. patents, which may cover products that are offered and sold by Business Objects: 5, 555, 403, 6, 247, 008 B1, 6, 578, 027 B2, 6, 490, 593 and 6, 289, 352. Business Objects, the Business Objects logo, Crystal Reports, and Crystal Enterprise are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects SA or its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] To open (import) a question domain stored in the repository: From the File menu, select Import. In the Question Domain Properties area, type the title, author, comments, and key words for the new domain. 4. To save the domain, select Save from the File menu. select universes create and configure subjects create and configure behaviors export the domain to the repository Now you need to: · · · · Note: Changes you make to a question domain cannot be accessed by your end users until you export the domain to the repository (see "Exporting a question domain" on page 37). Saving it means that it will only be saved locally. 32 Question Designer Using Question Designer Creating a question domain 4 Tip: The remaining steps for completing the question domain are shown in the To Do list. Selecting universes You select the universes from which you will take objects for the question domain. You can use any universe for which you have access rights in the repository. Make sure the universes you select meet the requirements outlined in "Universe requirements" on page 26. You must have at least one universe in the repository in order to design a question domain. To select a universe: Make sure that you are on the Start page, and that the question domain you want is open. In the Select Universes area, use the arrow buttons to move the universes you want into the right-hand pane. Tip: To refresh the universes, select Refresh Universes from the Edit menu. Creating and configuring subjects You now configure subjects and create new ones. To create or configure subjects: In the Design Tasks panel, click Subjects. The available subjects appear in the Subjects pane on the left side of the page. The universes with which you can work appear on tabs in the middle of the page. Do either of the following: · · 3. If you want to create a new subject, click the Plus ( + ) button at the top of the Subjects pane, and type the name and description in the Subject Properties pane. If you want to edit an existing subject, select the one you want in the Subjects pane. If you want to set the subject as default, click Set Default. The default subject will be the first to appear to the user within the Intelligent Question application. Question Designer 33 4 Using Question Designer Creating a question domain 4. 5. In the Subject Properties pane, select the universe whose objects you want to map to the subject. Use the arrow buttons to assign objects from the universe to the Key, the Label, and the Attributes. Note: The attributes you assign to the subject become the options users see when selecting filters for subjects. List of contexts At the bottom of the Subject Properties pane is the list of contexts. A context is marked with a red "x" when a key, label, or attribute object is not compatible with that context. This means that the subject cannot be linked to a behavior based on that context. When you select a context in the list, the objects that are compatible with it are highlighted in the list of objects above. This enables you to design the subject to be linked to a particular behavior. [. . . ] (IQ 00012) Cause Action You tried to select an attribute without selecting any values. (IQ 00013) Cause Action You tried to save a question to Favorites without giving it a name. Name the Favorite question when you save it. Question Designer 51 A Error Messages Error messages IQ license key doesn't exist. (IQ 00014) Cause Action The license key was not properly installed or configured. [. . . ]