{"id":95292,"date":"2015-11-12T17:10:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T22:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=95292"},"modified":"2023-04-11T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T14:04:48","slug":"how-to-guides-basic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/buworks\/help\/bw\/how-to-guides-basic\/","title":{"rendered":"BW How-to Guides (Basic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Basic Reporting Functions<\/h3>\n<p>The following guides describe the functions that are most frequently used to modify reports. These functions are considered basic, and any report user should understand how and when to use them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Start here<\/span>:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/buworks\/help\/bw\/intro-to-reporting\/\">Introduction to Business Warehouse Reporting<\/a> &#8211; this video series describes and\/or demonstrates the basic concepts and operations you need to understand to begin using Business Warehouse (BW) reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymedia.bu.edu\/media\/BW+Key+ConceptA+Organize+Report+Data+by+Column+Position\/1_p484s0t6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" gt=\"\" aria-label=\"+Organize Report Data\"> <\/a><a href=\"\/tech\/files\/2015\/12\/BW-How-to-Specify-Report-Dates.pdf\">BW How to &#8211; Specify Report Dates<\/a><br \/>\nBusiness Warehouse reports frequently require the specification of a period for which data is to be displayed. This period might be specified via a Fiscal Period\/Year or a Posting Date field in a financial report or it could be a Day Interval in an HCM report. This document describes how to specify a date for a report that uses one or more fiscal periods or a date range.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/tech\/files\/2015\/12\/BW-How-to-Perform-an-information-lookup.pdf\">BW How to &#8211; Perform an Information Lookup\/Search<\/a><br \/>\nWhen using\u00a0Business Warehouse (BW) reports, situations will arise in which you must enter a value to run a report or to filter data. If you don\u2019t have the required information readily available, you can use the technique described in this document to look up that information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basic Reporting Functions The following guides describe the functions that are most frequently used to modify reports. These functions are considered basic, and any report user should understand how and when to use them. Start here:\u00a0Introduction to Business Warehouse Reporting &#8211; this video series describes and\/or demonstrates the basic concepts and operations you need to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10910,"featured_media":0,"parent":94088,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95292"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144941,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95292\/revisions\/144941"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}