MACROMEDIA BREEZE-MANAGING EXTERNAL BREEZE REPORTS User manual

Managing External Breeze Reports

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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Intended audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
What’s new in external Breeze reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Guide to documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Contact us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 1: Understanding Breeze Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The Breeze database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About stored data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 2: Using Breeze Reporting Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Database schema views used in reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Database views and data relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Unique identifiers and data relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
EXT_TRANSACTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
EXT_TRANSACTION_DETAILS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
EXT_TRANSACTIONS_VIEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
EXT_USERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
EXT_USER_FIELDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
EXT_USER_GROUPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
EXT_OBJECTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Introduction
Macromedia Breeze supports external reporting through a collection of read-only database
views. These database views allow you to develop a wide variety of customized reports for use
throughout your enterprise.
Intended audience
This document is for licensed Breeze customers who want to develop customized reports
based on Breeze data.
What’s new in external Breeze reports
In Macromedia Breeze 5.1, the reporting views have been created in the database.
(In Breeze 4.1, you had to create the reporting views and install them on Breeze
Communication Server.)
Guide to documentation
In addition to this manual, the following electronic manuals and online help systems are
available from the Breeze Documentation Center to help you learn about Breeze:
■Breeze Manager User Guide describes how to use the administration, presentation, and
meeting applications of Breeze. You can access this guide from the Breeze Manager home
page, and from the Help link in Breeze Manager.
■Breeze Presenter User Guide describes how to create Breeze presentations using PowerPoint
and publish them to Breeze. You can access this document from the Breeze Manager home
page, or from the Breeze menu in PowerPoint by selecting Breeze > Help.

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■Breeze Meeting User Guide for Hosts and Presenters includes information about using the
Breeze web application to host online real-time meetings. The documentation includes
procedures that demonstrate the simplicity of adding slides, Flash SWF files, images, and
live audio and video to your presentation. You can access this guide from the Breeze
Manager home page, or from the Help menu within a Breeze meeting room (when you
enter as a Presenter) by selecting Meeting > Help.
■Breeze Meeting User Guide for Participants includes information relevant to users
participating in an online real-time meeting. Breeze Meeting offers meeting participants a
variety of options to make their experience truly participatory, including the ability to
send messages and questions to Presenters and to each other, and the ability to participate
through live video and audio. You can access this guide from the Breeze Manager home
page, or from the Help menu within a Breeze meeting room (when you enter as a
Participant) by selecting Meeting > Help.
■Breeze Integration Guide includes information necessary to make application programming
interface (API) calls on the Breeze server from your external system, such as a web
application. It also explains how to interpret the XML results that Breeze returns. In
addition, the documentation contains reference material about each API and its
parameters.
Additional resources
Additional documentation, white papers, and articles are available at the following websites:
Breeze Resource Center This site, at www.macromedia.com/resources/breeze, is updated
regularly with tutorials, simulations, best-practices information, and links to procedures.
Breeze Support Center This site, at www.macromedia.com/support/breeze, contains
current support information, including TechNotes, helpful Breeze presentations, and support
program details.
Contact us
For additional assistance, please contact Technical Support.

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CHAPTER 1
Understanding Breeze
Reports
The Macromedia Breeze platform allows users to share online meetings, presentations, and
training courses over the Internet. Reporting access to Macromedia Breeze data allows you to
track learning effectiveness, participation, system usage, and content analysis.
The Breeze database
Macromedia Breeze requires a database to store information about users, content, courses,
meetings, and reports. The database is created as part of the Breeze installation and setup
procedure by the Breeze database engine or Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
User activity (such as viewing or submitting data) within Breeze populates the database. The
collected data can then be viewed in customized reports using external tools such as Crystal
Reports, Macromedia ColdFusion Studio, or SQL-based tools.
About stored data
The following data from Breeze sessions can be captured in Breeze reports.
■Breeze Presentation: content views, slide views, and presentation views
■Breeze Training: course management facilities such as course attendee statistics, content
viewing statistics, and quiz results
■Breeze Meeting: meeting attendance, meeting duration, and meeting content
About reports
Breeze reports are available out of the box; you can also create customized reports. You can
export the underlying report data in CSV format.

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CHAPTER 2
Using Breeze
Reporting Views
This chapter describes each of the database schema views used in Macromedia Breeze 5.1. The
external views allow you to develop custom reports that are based on user activity within
Macromedia Breeze.
This chapter describes the following:
■Column name data type
■Length of data contained in each column
■Primary keys used to map relationships
Reporting data is accessible using an SQL-compliant tool.
Database schema views used in reporting
Breeze supports external reporting through a set of integrated database views. You use SQL
queries to develop customized reports.
The following database views are supported in Breeze 5.1:
■EXT_TRANSACTIONS
■EXT_TRANSACTION_DETAILS
■EXT_TRANSACTION_VIEWS
■EXT_USERS
■EXT_USER_FIELDS
■EXT_USER_ GROUPS
■EXT_OBJECTS
NOTE
Database reporting views are intended for read-only access and usage.

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The following are not supported:
■Use of any other views besides the ones identified in this chapter
■Any alterations of these views
■Direct access to the underlying database schema
Database views and data relationships
The following entity relationship diagram shows the seven external reporting views. The
arrows depict how data maps back to the view it was created from. You can view data
relationships within any diagramming tool that allows you to connect to databases.