Answers & Dashboard report as an input formular?

Hi everybody,
I was wondering if anyone of has experience in using an answers report placed on a dashboard as an input formular?
The idea is to replace several excel spreadsheet with a standardized answers report.
Could BIEE's write back capability be used here?
Or should I start looking for a second tool - Apex to capture the input and BIEE to present the output?
Thanks
Regards
Andy

decision between Apex vs OBIEE writeback will depend on complexity of your data entry, security and user interface needs.
You can refer to Venkat's blog for writeback functionality example.
http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/oracle-bi-ee-101332-write-back-option-budgetingplanning/
hth,
Prakash

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