CRMOD Presentation variable scope and usage in drilldown report

Hello dear all,
I have dashboard and presentation variables on dashboard promt. When selecting these presentation variables all work fine within dashboard.
But when I drilldown to another report that also uses these presentation varibales its not working.
How to make possible to use presentation variables within dashboard ? Or maybe there is another way how to accomplish this.

why do you want to show folder name for every column? folder name means name of the folder that reports saved in?? or presentation table name??
you may use static rep variable to display folder name in report.
Thanks
Jay.

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Hi,
I'm wondering how people proceed regarding variable scope, and calling
functions and things. For instance, it's finally sunk in that almost
always a variable should be declared with var to keep it local.
But along similar lines, how should one deal with functions? That is,
should every function be completely self contained -- i.e. must any
variables outside the scope of the function be passed to the function,
and the function may not alter any variables but those that are local to
it? Or is that not necessary to be so strict?
Functions also seem to be limited in that they can only return a single
variable. But what if I want to create a function that alters a bunch of
variables?
So I guess that's two questions:
(1) Should all functions be self-contained?
(2) What if the function needs to return a whole bunch of variables?
Thanks,
Ariel

Ariel:
(Incidentally, I couldn't find any way of marking answers correct when I visited the web forums a few days ago, so I gave up.)
It's there...as long as you're logged in at least, and are the poster of the thread.
What I want is to write code that I can easily come back to a few months later
and make changes/add features -- so it's only me that sees the code, but
after long intervals it can almost be as though someone else has written
it! So I was wondering if I would be doing myself a favour by being more
strict about make functions independent etc. Also, I was noticing that
in the sample scripts that accompany InDesign (written by Olav Kvern?)
the functions seem always to require all variables to be passed to it.
Where it is not impractical to do so, you should make functions independent and reusable. But there are plenty of cases where it is impractical, or at least very annoying to do so.
The sample scripts for InDesign are written to be in parallel between three different languages, and have a certain lowest-common-denominator effect. They also make use of some practices I would consider Not Very Good. I would not recommend them as an example for how to learn to write a large Javascript project.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by persistent session. Most of my
scripts are run once and then quit. However, some do create a modeless
dialog (ie where you can interface with the UI while running it), which
is the only time I need to use #targetengine.
Any script that specifies a #targetengine other than "main" is in a persistent session. It means that variables (and functions) will persist from script invokation to invokation. If you have two scripts that run in #targetengine session, for instance, because of their user interfaces, they can have conficting global variables. (Some people will suggest you should give each script its own #targetengine. I am not convinced this is a good idea, but my reasons against it are mostly speculation about performance and memory issues, which are things I will later tell you to not worry about.)
But I think you've answered one of my questions when you say that the
thing to avoid is the "v1" scope. Although I don't really see what the
problem is in the context of InDesign scripting (unless someone else is
going to using your script as function in one of theirs). Probably in
Web design it's more of an issue, because a web page could be running
several scripts at the same time?
It's more of an issue in web browsers, certainly (which I have ~no experience writing complex Javascript for, by the way), but it matters in ID, too. See above. It also complicates code reuse across projects.
Regarding functions altering variables: for example, I have a catalog
script. myMasterPage is a variable that keeps track of which masterpage
is being used. A function addPage() will add a page, but will need to
update myMasterPage because many other functions in the script refer to
that. However, addPage() also needs to update the total page count
variable, the database-line-number-index-variable and several others,
which are all used in most other functions. It seems laborious and
unnecessary to pass them all to each function, then have the function
alter them and return an array that would then need to be deciphered and
applied back to the main variables. So in such a case I let the function
alter these "global" (though not v1) variables. You're saying that's okay.
Yes, that is OK. It's not a good idea to call that scope "global," though, since you'll promote confusion. You could call it...outer function scope, maybe? Not sure; that assumes addPage() is nested within some other function whose scope is containing myMasterPage.
It is definitely true that you should not individually pass them to the function and return them as an array and reassign them to the outer function's variables.
I think it is OK for addPage() to change them, yes.
Another approach would be something like:
(function() {
var MPstate = {
    totalPages: 0,
    dbline: -1
function addPage(state) {
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MPstate = addPage(MPstate);
I don't think this is a particularly good approach, though. It is clunky and also doesn't permit an easy way for addPage() to return success or failure.
Of course it could instead do something like:
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var returnVal = addPage(MPstate);
if (returnVal.success) { MPstate = returnVal.state; }
but that's not very comforting either. Letting addPage() access it's parent functions variables works much much better, as you surmised.
However, the down-side is that intuitively I feel this makes the script
more "messy" -- less legible and professional. (On the other hand, I
recall reading that passing a lot of variables to functions comes with a
performance penalty.)
I think that as long as you sufficiently clearly comment your code it is fine.
Remember this sort of thing is part-and-parcel for a language that has classes and method functions inside those classes (e.g. Java, Python, ActionScript3, C++, etc.). It's totally reasonable for a class to define a bunch of variables that are scoped to that class and then implement a bunch of methods to modify those class variables. You should not sweat it.
Passing lots of variables to functions does not incur any meaningful performance penalty at the level you should be worrying about. Premature optimization is almost always a bad idea. On the other hand, you should avoid doing so for a different reason -- it is hard to read and confusing to remember when the number of arguments to something is more than three or so. For instance, compare:
addPage("iv", 3, "The rain in spain", 4, loremIpsumText);
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The latter is more verbose, but immensely more readable. And the order of parameters no longer matters.
You should, in general, use Objects in this way when the number of parameters exceeds about three.
I knew a function could return an array. I'll have to read up on it
returing an object. (I mean, I guess I intuitively knew that too -- I'm
sure I've had functions return textFrames or what-have-you),
Remember that in Javascript, when we say Object we mean something like an associative array or dictionary in other languages. An arbitrary set of name/value pairs. This is confusing because it also means other kinds of objects, like DOM objects (textFrames, etc.), which are technically Javascript Objects too, because everything inherits from Object.prototype. But...that's not what I mean.
So yes, read up on Objects. They are incredibly handy.

Issue in using presentation variable as filter condition in the reports

Hi,
I have an issue in using presentation variable as filter condition in my reports the details are as follows:
Details :
We want to implement the Max and Min variables through Presentation variables only.we do not want to implement it through session variables in this case.
We have two variables MIN and MAX to be used as Presentation Variables,for a column of the report (which is a quantity),so that the user wants to see the data for this column within a particular range.i.e the Min and the Max.This part has been implemented well . The issue is when the user wants to see the full data.In that case we will not pass any values to these two Presentation Variable or in other words we are not restricting the report data so we are not passing any value to the variables,this is when the report is throwing the error. we want to leave this variables blank in that case.but this is giving error.
Please suggest how can I overcome this issue.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Praveen

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the first report (A) also uses some session and presentation variables, which is also used by Report B as filters. I am curious that if I add these filters which are using variables to report B, why can't report B get the value of these, (it just errors out ) because it didn't found any value to those variables in the filter.
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Ronny,
Are you seeing blanks in answers ? Id expect this, but on the dashboard, when you set the filters , you should see the values coming through?
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When i use this i always get a syntax error. Could you please pont me where i am going wrong?
Thanks

user9126483 wrote:
Hi
I have a date column which should have 2 presentation variables. From date and To date. I created a dashboard prompt on the date column twice with case statements like CASE WHEN 1=0 THEN CALENDAR.D_DATE ELSE TIMESTAMP '1900-01-01 00:00:00' END . Now i have 2 presentation variables FromDate and Todate for the user to select. I have referenced this in the report using a filter with the condition " date between @{FromDate}{1900-01-01 00:00:00 AM} and @{ToDate}{1900-01-01 00:00:00 AM}
Now i have a column in the report which has a case statement with the following conditions
CASE WHEN "Dim - Pay Info"."Status Cd" = 'ROC' AND TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_DAY, -1, @{FromDate}{1900-01-01 00:00:00 AM}) THEN 'Outstanding' --- the condition here is take off a date from the FromDate selected
WHEN "Dim - Pay Info"."Status Cd" = 'ROC' AND "Dim - Pay Warrant Date"."CAL_DT" IS BETWEEN @{FromDate}{1900-01-01 00:00:00 AM}, @{FromDate}{1900-01-01 00:00:00 AM} THEN 'Current Month'
WHEN "Dim - Pay Info"."Status Cd" = 'RCK' AND "Dim - Pay Warrant Date"."CAL_DT" IS BETWEEN @{FromDate}{1900-01-01 00:00:00 AM}, @{FromDate}{1900-01-01 00:00:00 AM} THEN 'Purged'
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When i use this i always get a syntax error. Could you please pont me where i am going wrong?
What is the syntax error? If you make people have to guess or to examine intensely what you wrote, many will pass on your question, which I don't doubt people did.
Rather than dive into your syntax, read this blog entry by Venkat which perfectly describes how to build and use date prompts with BETWEEN, including the syntax of wrapping your date prompts with single quotes.
http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/oracle-bi-ee-101332-between-prompts-for-date-columns-using-presentation-variables/

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I was playing around with sample app dashboards and I saw a dashboard prompt that they converted into a column selector. I liked it and reproduced it in my own sandbox.
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We have followed the below link to use the date between prompt and passed the presentation variables in the filter condition of the report criteria.
http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2009/03/obiee-between-dates-prompt.html
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i have not tried it.Give it a try.
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I need to pass multiple values from presentation variable to repository.
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I have two repository variables - from_dt and to_dt which are defaulted to some values from a database table and are editable by the user.
I display these default date values on the dashboard. Plus there are two dashboard date prompts allowing user to enter a date range different from what is displayed by the from_dt and to_dt. The dates entered by user are assigned to presentation variables pv_from_dt and pv_to_dt.
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Error Codes: YQCO4T56:OPR4ONWY:U9IM8TAC:OI2DL65P
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State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 27002] Near <SET>: Syntax error [nQSError: 26012] . (HY000)
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I wrongly referred to the variables as "repository" variables. Both variables are Session variables. For testing i added a column field in the report with source as the session variable - VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.from_dt). In the Prefix section i assigned a literal value - SET VARIABLE from_dt='01-JAN-2012';
When report is run, the literal value gets displayed.
The idea to update a session variable, from dashboard using presentation variable, i got from the following URL.
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and see the section "Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3/2 – Updating Session Variables from Dashboards using Presentation Variables"
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Nusrat
Edited by: user10309945 on Jan 16, 2011 9:30 PM
Edited by: user10309945 on Jan 16, 2011 9:59 PM

Hide entire column based on presentation variable?

Has anyone ever tried to do this? If user selects all records from prompt i want to display analysts assigned to those records. If user selects specific analyst i don't want to display analyst column. I know i can null out or show analyst based on presentation variable but what about hide entire column?
If this is not possible has anyone tried to use conditional formatting to hide entire column?

Try this:
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5) In the Section Properties of the "with column" report, click on "Guided Navigation" and navigate to the small report you created in step one. Set this section to display "if request returns rows." Don't forget the filter on this report set to the presentation variable.
6) In the Section Properties of the "without column" report, click on "Guided Navigation" and navigate to the small report you created in step one. Set this section to display "if request returns nothing." This report will not need a filter on the analyst prompt, because by definition it will display all analysts.
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