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8.4.3 Business Metadata Delivery in an Interactive Report
The user should be able to access definitions of fields from any application in
the environment. Figure 8.4 shows a report. The user should be able to high-
light the name of a data element on the report, and the definition should be
displayed, either as hover text (text that appears when needed, then disappears)
or available with something like a right click.
What if more extensive business metadata is available and the user needs
to choose which type to view? This more involved strategy is shown in Figure
8.5. Examples of different types of business metadata that could be available ...