Getting Started with Application Studio

Howdy Geeks.....

Ready to get started with the basics of App Studio ?? 

All right before we start App studio there are few things you need to check in your BI environment.

I have a check list which I normally check before I start development on App Studio.

1. App Studio / Web services / Dashboards / Rep Admin Installed and configured

2. A training or development Repository created with Report Catalog and Project

3. Users added to the repository

4. Web services configured to use Basic / Windows

5. Users added to the ASWS group

6. Web services / Dashboards URL's are accessible and working properly

7. Data source is available for report development ( This could be SSAS cubes or Infor OLAP Cubes)

Once you are ready open up App studio and Select the Repository , Project and Report Catalog.

Repository

The repository is a store for objects that the various Infor BI products have in common. A repository is stored in a relational database. The database can be SQL Server or Oracle and can store more than one repository. Essentially a repository contains users, groups, roles, projects and report catalogs. Users and groups can each be elements of several different roles.

Project

You use projects to save groups of reports on specific topics. Each project can have its own user permissions and administration rights. Projects and report catalogs are created and administered in the Repository. The Repository is administered through registrations. Each registration of a Repository object contains database connection information for the Repository, which includes database name, type, location and type of authentication. Each registration contains a Projects folder which can contain a number of report catalogs

Report Catalog

A report catalog is a component of the Repository which holds data about the structure of reports within a project. Typically, a report catalog contains a set of related reports. For example, the Best Practices Templates database supplied with Application Studio contains the Best Practices Templates project. This contains the Best Practices Templates report catalog which is a series of sample reports based on the Best Practices Templates database alias. The Report Catalog is also a pane in the Repository Explorer. It lists the report catalog, database aliases and reports you have access to.

In my next post I will guide you to create your first App studio report.