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Reporting Best Practices

Use the following best practices when installing, maintaining, and using CA Business Intelligence:

• Install and maintain one universe for each CA product. If required, you can build linked universes.
• Before applying service packs, patches, and other updates to your customized universe, back up all your customizations.
• Do not modify the default universe. Instead, copy it and modify the copy. Otherwise, your customizations may be erased when you apply service packs, patches, and other updates.
• Build your own folders.
• If reports stop running, verify that the Central Management Server (CMS) is running.
• Do not overwrite pre-defined reports.
• Always use a pre-defined report as a base to build a custom report. Doing so helps ensure consistent formatting in all reports.

Note: For details about completing these tasks, see your BusinessObjects Enterprise documentation.