Help on FM

[techieaman]

Hi,

I am new to FM and will like to get some valuable insight/tutorial/ppt/doc if available apart from the FM Pdf available with the installation. It will be great if someone can share basic info like how to use shortcuts, creating relationships, where to use regular dimension etc...

Another query is I have an Oracle client installed and connect to a data source using toad. But, when I try to to a Import of metadata in FM, I do not see anything and even the new data source option is disabled! Is it due to permission issue? I have been included as part of developers under Cognos portal groups by the administrator.

any help will be great.

Thanks in advance

aman

[blom0344]

As FM is a seperate client tool I do not think that security is set up in Cognos connection.
The TOAD tool will probably use the local tnsnames.ora file to establish a connection. I suspect that you need to create a ODBC DSN for FM using Oracle ODBC drivers, but that is just me guessing..