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Thanks - I will do that, then ask more specific questions.
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Thanks - I will do that, then ask more specific questions.

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Thanks for the points! <br />
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A pleasure. &nbsp;I am happily working my way through sap-businessobjects/info tutorials on universes and learning a lot, so this is definitely the right approach! &nbsp;I will also access the link you gave.
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A pleasure.  I am happily working my way through sap-businessobjects/info tutorials on universes and learning a lot, so this is definitely the right approach!  I will also access the link you gave.

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I need to build a universe in BOBJ after developing a query for a family of reports. &nbsp;This will be the first task I will be given on a work assignment I am about to start and I have never done this. &nbsp;My work experience is in Crystal Reports but I have no knowledge of universes. &nbsp;Can someone suggest how to go about this, or a source where I can learn what I need? Thank you!
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I need to build a universe in BOBJ after developing a query for a family of reports.  This will be the first task I will be given on a work assignment I am about to start and I have never done this.  My work experience is in Crystal Reports but I have no knowledge of universes.  Can someone suggest how to go about this, or a source where I can learn what I need? Thank you!

Building a universe in BOBJ

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