Tag Archives: Custom BDS
Blog Series – Importing and Using Your Own Data in Business Analyst – (4 of 6) Uploading Your Custom Data and Report Template to Business Analyst Server (Part B)
by Chris Wilcox
This Part B of the fourth entry of a six part product team series that will walk you through importing your custom data and exposing it in multiple aspects of Business Analyst – such as maps, reports, analysis, and applications. The upcoming entries will highlight some great tips and tricks for all things Business Analyst customization. Check out the previous post here.
As a follow up to my previous blog, I thought you might find this helpful when uploading a custom BDS to Business Analyst Server. Kyle also noted this in his blog found here.
If you are uploading a custom BDS to Business Analyst Server that is based on a large custom dataset, you may see the following screen: Continue reading
Blog Series – Importing and Using Your Own Data in Business Analyst – (4 of 6) Uploading Your Custom Data and Report Template to Business Analyst Server (Part A)
by Chris Wilcox
This is the fourth entry of a six part product team series that will walk you through importing your custom data and exposing it in multiple aspects of Business Analyst – such as maps, reports, analysis, and applications. The upcoming entries will highlight some great tips and tricks for all things Business Analyst customization. Check out the previous post here.
Uploading Your Custom Data and Report Templates to Business Analyst Server
This entry talks about uploading the custom BDS file and report template, created in earlier posts in this series, to Business Analyst Server. If the data is not already created, you can download the custom report template and the custom BDS from the links provided. This entry is written to help Business Analyst Desktop users upload the data and report template. The information that a Business Analyst Server administrator needs, in order to configure the server to allow for uploading data, is provided in a couple of places. There is a white paper that provides a walk through of the process that will allow for uploading. This information is also a part of the Business Analyst Server Install Guide, Step 7: Required Additional Steps.
Assuming that the custom BDS is created according to Kyle’s instructions and the report template is created according to Jeff’s instructions, we are ready Continue reading
Blog Series – Importing and Using Your Own Data in Business Analyst – (3 of 6) Creating a Custom Report with Custom Data (Part B)
by Jeff Hincy
This is Part B of the third entry of a six part product team blog series that will walk you through importing your custom data and exposing it in multiple aspects of Business Analyst – such as maps, reports, analysis, and applications. The upcoming entries will highlight some great tips and tricks for all things Business Analyst customization. Check out the previous post here.
In Part A I focused on building a report utilizing the custom data created in a previous blog with Business Analyst Desktop. In Part B I will show you how to install the report report and run it.
Now that we have a custom report built the next step is to Continue reading
Blog Series – Importing and Using Your Own Data in Business Analyst – (3 of 6) Creating a Custom Report with Custom Data (Part A)
by Jeff Hincy
This is the third entry of a six part product team blog series that will walk you through importing your custom data and exposing it in multiple aspects of Business Analyst – such as maps, reports, analysis, and applications.The upcoming entries will highlight some great tips and tricks for all things Business Analyst customization. Check out the previous post here.
In this entry I will focus on building a report utilizing the custom data created in the first blog with Business Analyst desktop.
We have seen how to take custom data and transform it into a Business Analyst Datasource (BDS) and how to take that data and analyze it using the tools in Business Analyst Desktop to better understand and visualize the data. Now I am going to show you Continue reading
Blog Series – Importing and Using Your Own Data in Business Analyst – (2 of 6) Using Custom Data
by Garry Burgess
This is the second entry of a six part product team blog series that will walk you through importing your custom data and exposing it in multiple aspects of Business Analyst – such as maps, reports, analysis, and applications. The upcoming entries will highlight some great tips and tricks for all things Business Analyst customization. Check out the previous post here.
In this entry I will focus on using the custom data created in the first blog within Business Analyst Desktop.
Now that my colleague Kyle created a BDS layer with the EPA data, I am going to illustrate how you can use this information in Business Analyst. I started by adding the custom BDS layer to ArcMap using the Add Data button. The Census Tract layer with the EPA cancer risk data and Esri demographic data is added to my map like any other ArcGIS layer. Continue reading
Blog Series – Importing and Using Your Own Data in Business Analyst – (1 of 6) Building Custom Data
by Kyle Watson
This is the first entry of a six part product team blog series that will walk you through importing your custom data and exposing it in multiple aspects of Business Analyst – such as maps, reports, analysis, and applications. The upcoming entries will highlight some great tips and tricks for all things Business Analyst customization. Check out the original post here.
In this entry I will focus on building custom data.
The Story:
We want to analyze and understand cancer risk scenarios across the United States. We’ll do so by combining publicly available nationwide EPA data with Esri Data variables to form a Custom BDS layer. You’ll be able to download and replay this scenario – or apply the concepts to your own organization. Continue reading
