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Siebel Business Analytics Server Administration Guide > Creating and Maintaining the Presentation Layer in a Repository > Presentation Layer Objects > Working with Presentation CatalogsIn the Presentation layer, presentation catalogs allow you to show different views of a business model to different sets of users. Presentation catalogs have to be populated with contents from a single business model. They cannot span business models. When creating a presentation catalog, selecting the option Export logical keys causes any columns in the Presentation layer that are key columns in the Business Model and Mapping layer to be listed as key columns to any ODBC client. This is the default selection. In most situations, this option should be selected. Many client tools differentiate between key and nonkey columns, and the option Export logical keys provides client tools access to the key column metadata. Any join conditions the client tool adds to the query, however, are ignored; the Analytics Server uses the joins defined in the repository. If you set an implicit fact column this column will be added to a query when it contains columns from two or more dimension tables and no measures. You will not see the column in the results. It is used to specify a default join path between dimension tables when there are several possible alternatives. The Presentation Catalog dialog box has three tabs: General, Presentation Tables, and Aliases. The functionality provided in each tab is described in Table 21. To create a presentation catalog
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