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Siebel Analytics Server Administration Guide > Creating and Maintaining the Presentation Layer in a Repository > Presentation Layer Objects >
Working with Presentation Tables
You can use presentation tables to organize columns into categories that make sense to the user community. Presentation tables in the Presentation layer contain columns. A presentation table can contain columns from one or more logical tables. The names and object properties of the presentation tables are independent of the logical table properties. The Presentation Tables dialog box has three tabs: General, Columns, and Aliases. The functionality provided in each tab is described in Table 19.
Table 19. Presentation Tables Dialog Box
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General |
Use this tab to create or edit a presentation table. |
Columns |
Use this tab to reorder or sort the Presentation layer columns in the Administration Tool workspace, and to delete columns. You can also use this tab to access the Presentation Column dialog box, where you can create and edit columns. |
Aliases |
Use this tab to specify or delete an alias for a presentation table. |
To create a presentation table
- Right-click a catalog folder in the Presentation layer, and then select New Presentation Table from the shortcut menu.
The Presentation Table dialog box appears.
- In the General tab, specify a name for the table.
- Click the Permissions button to open the Permissions dialog box, where you can assign user or group permissions to the table.
For information about assigning permissions to a presentation table, see Setting Permissions for Repository Objects.
- (Optional) Type a description of the table.
NOTE: To give the appearance of nested folders in Siebel Answers, prefix the name of the presentation folder to be nested with a hyphen and a space and place it after the folder in which it nests (- <folder name>). For example, to nest the Sales Facts folder in the Facts folder, place the Sales Facts folder directly after Facts in the metadata and change its name to - Sales Facts. When Answers displays the folder name in the left pane, it omits the hyphen and space from the folder name. To nest a second folder, for example Marketing Facts, in the Facts folder, change its name to - Marketing Facts and place it directly after Sales Facts. The standard preconfigured repositories provide additional examples for you to review.
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