Our fictional company, Century Corporation, needs another
income statement. This one will resemble the one you created in
the last exercise, but with three fundamental differences based
on the structure of the data you will be using.
- In the first
tutorial, both the hierarchy and the financial data were contained in
the same data source. In this exercise, the hierarchy is defined
in one Master File and the financial data in another. You will have
to join the two to create the report.
- In the first
tutorial, the data was structured as a preconsolidated data mart
with rollups built into the data. In this exercise, the data is
unconsolidated. Do the consolidations using options in the Financial
Report Painter.
- In the first
tutorial, the data mart resolved differences between data storage conventions
in a typical General Ledger system and user expectations for how
those values appear in output. In this exercise, you will resolve
those differences yourself.
Once again, you will work in the local projects area of Developer
Studio and run reports against the WebFOCUS Reporting Server on
your local machine. Be sure to select the option that installs the
local Reporting Server with Developer Studio.