Once a book is saved to disk, a user can reopen it at any time by clicking on the File
menu and choosing Open Book or Reopen Book.
PAS is the ProClarity Analytics Server which is covered in detail in the next
section. One of the surprising facts about PAS for many new users is that by itself,
PAS can do nothing. A user cannot launch PAS by itself and connect to cubes and
Figure 6-54 A Briefing Book is a file that stores one or more views. Only the query and
formatting is saved; no cube data is stored in a Briefing Book.
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perform analysis. Instead, the starting point for any analysis is a view in a Briefing
Book. This means that someone, often a developer or power user, must create a
Briefing Book in the Professional client and then publish that book to PAS so that
others will be able to use that book??™s views as a starting point.
Publishing a Briefing Book to PAS is relatively simple as long as the user has
access to the server and has been granted publishing rights. Publishing rights are one
of the many parameters that a PAS administrator can set on the server, and for now
this walkthrough will assume that the user does indeed have publishing rights. On
the toolbar in the Professional client is a button labeled Analytics Server. By default,
clicking the large button will open a Briefing Book that is on the server. However,
clicking the down arrow next to the Analytics Server button will open other options,
such as Publish Book and Manage Books.
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