Preface

Welcome to Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Administration Guide - helping you to use Discoverer Administrator and set up and maintain Discoverer systems.

Discoverer Administrator enables you to control and manage your Discoverer system so that users of Discoverer Plus and Discoverer Viewer can find the information they want.

Audience

Use this guide if you are responsible for managing a Discoverer system, and you want to know how to:

• create and maintain End User Layers

• set up business areas, folders and items

• help users find information by defining joins, calculated items, and conditions

• improve Discoverer performance using summary folders

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Related Documents

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Conventions

Conventions used in this manual are shown in the table below:

Discoverer often gives you several ways to perform an operation. For example, to create a new condition you could:

• choose Tools | Conditions

• click the Conditions toolbar button

Since you might not be using a mouse, the Discoverer documentation always tells you the menu and menu option to choose.