Showing posts with label Dashboard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dashboard. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 June 2012

Hierarchy in Answers

Hierarchies can be created in the RPD and viewed in the answer report. Hierarchies plays an important role in OBIEE to see the drill down hierarchy order. In RPD hierarchy is created according to the requirement and viewed accordingly in the answers.
Here in my case, I will show you the case of creating a hierarchy based report from the answers directly. But remember this is not a hierarchy columns created from the RPD Hierarchy.
And you need to remember that the values into the column should be in the order of the hierarchy that is to be displayed on the page.
NOTE- Only dimension columns seems to work fine without fact columns.
So, this structure can be used to display a certain hierarchy level without the means of fact columns.

In the report, drag the dimension column which contains the values to be displayed in hierarchial order.

Add a second dummy column in the report with the HTML Data format enabled. Add the mentioned column formula to stimulate the required changes using HTML. I am adding a default RED color to display behind the word.



And view the report and save it.



Comments are Welcome..

Wednesday, 27 June 2012

OBIEE 11g- Action Link Menu

OBIEE 11g provides a good feature to show the links in drop down. This option can come into picture when we are navigating to a separate report/page/web pages etc.
This reduces the dashboard complexity by displaying more links on the page and consuming the space in the page. We can open the new analysis in the same window or to a new window.
So lets get into a simple Action Link Menu creation.

In the dashboard page, edit and drag the Action Link Menu object into the dashboard.

You can find the properties to add to the Action Link Menu


Clicking on the Green (+) symbol will give the number of separate links to be navigated.



I am preferring to provide Google and OTN navigation from these links.



Save the page settings and click on the Links Menu and you will find the sub menus attached.





Thursday, 14 June 2012

Sub-Pages/ Tabs within a Page of a Dashboard

In one of the interview, a question was asked to show the sub-pages/ tabs. :)
To hide the header banner of the application we can use custom javascript to override the default properties. This can be used in cases where we need to embed a dashboard pages/ tabs inside another page/ tab.
Refer below link for the above-
http://obiee10grevisited.blogspot.in/2012/06/hiding-removing-header-banner.html
When the things are ready by hiding the header banner then in the dashboard page where we need to see the sub-pages/ tabs.
We first edit the dashboard page and give the embedded link

In the URL of the embedded link give the link to the page which needs to show as sub-tabs/ pages.







Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Master Detailed report on the same page. Navigate to the same page/ window


We had a requirement where Master and Detailed report should be shown on the same report on click of the measure value as shown below.


Initially, I have built a Master report and gave navigation to the same page.


In the Detailed report made the columns as 'is prompted' and kept the two reports in two different sections.



Built one intermediate report for the validation. That is, generally the detailed report should not be shown to the user, when the user clicks on the measure value then only the Detailed report should be visible at the below of the Master Report.


In the Detailed report section in the 'Edit Dashboard' gave the condition with reference of the Intermediate report and gave the condition as "equal to 1".So that the report is not visible at the initial view to the user. And save the page.

Now when the user clicks on the measure value then it navigates to the same page, but the values is passed to the detailed report as it contains 'is prompted'.


Hope this helps alot people out there.

Monday, 30 April 2012

Dashboard in Drop Down


Below is the method followed to show multiple dashboards with multiple pages in a drop down.
You need to have a default page with static text -HTML enabled and with the following piece of code.

<center>
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
</script>
<FORM>
<SELECT NAME="url" onchange="document.getElementById('myframe'). src=this.value"><OPTION VALUE="None" style="font-family:arial;color:red;font-size:90px;">Select a dashboard 
<OPTION VALUE="http://usblrnmehandal1:7001/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&PortalPath=%2Fshared%2FTesting%2F_portal%2FTestDashboard&page=Test1">Testdashboard
</SELECT>
</FORM>
<iframe id="myframe" height="1500" width="1500" src="about:blank"></iframe>
</body>
</html>
</center>

If multiple dashboard has to be added then you need to have multiple option values.