Different colors for hierarchy nodes in WEBI 4.0 (Possible or not)

Question

Hi Everyone,
We have been listening a lot about the capability of Webi 4.0 in terms of Hierarchies from BW BEx Query. It works just fine like in BEx Analyzer, but is it possible to create formatted reports like we do in Crystal reports to display different colors for the hierarchy nodes. The reason for asking about this functionality is though Crystal Enterprise also inherits Hierarchical view from BEx Query we still won't be able to drill down in real time to do some interactive analysis.
Where as Webi 4.0 can allow us to do interactive analysis by allowing us to drill down on the hierarchies, but it would be great to show the Webi report with different colors for the hierarchy nodes along with the drill down functionality, to give users the best look and feel while working with these reports.
I am trying to achieve this functionality but I am not successful yet and running out of ideas. I am also not sure if this is possible or not. Can anyone throw some light or share there thoughts on this.
Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks & Regards,
SRV

Answer 1

Create a variable with:
     =[Object].Depth
where [Object] has to be the one containing the BEx hierarchy.
This function will return the hierarchy level starting with 0 (zero).
You can use the value of the variable the in the formatting rules:
variable   equal   [hierarchy level]
to format all hierarchy nodes on the given level.
R. Uli