Drill-Down limitations

I would ask about an specific drill-down case where I am losing drill-down capabilities:
is it possible that using combined requests disable the drill-down options? On my case, I have a parent report (using combined requests) linked to a second one using *"Navigate to"* option. The problem is that choicing a value on first report does not filtering by this value on the second report. In the second report, the field is filtered using "is prompted" option.
Is that a normal case?
Thanks everybody.
Marc

Yeah, still having this issue... Can't get the links working
in Flash Paper. A temp fix is to have the report in PDF instead of
Flash.

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Drill Down Error / Report Builder Limitations

I have been having alot of problems recently with the new
version of 7.0.2. A few things that i have noticed is that i can't
do drill downs anymore. I don't think it's a coding issue since it
was working in the previous 2 releases of Report Builder(7.0,
7.0.1).
Another problem is that I have reports that return around
1,000 pages. Now, I know there is a limitation on Flash Paper/Flash
Player, whoever i was wondering if there is a work around or
something i can do to get this reports to finish. Right now I get
the error roughly stating "A script has cause this flash movie to
become unstable and if you continue it might make the computer
unresponsive". Currently the only work around that i have is to
offer the same report in PDF format, however 90% of our customers
want to run it in flash paper, and my boss wonts it to work using
flash paper aswell.
Any sugguestions that you might have or anything please email
me. If you have any questions please email me aswell.
Thank you,
Daniel

Yeah, still having this issue... Can't get the links working
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Limits the PerformancePoint Analytic Chart drill down dimensions

Actually my requirement is, how to limits the Performance Point Analytic Chart drill down dimensions.
I am using SQL Server 2008 R2. Is it possible to achieve it in SQL Server 2008 R2 without
Perspective?
I should not change my system from SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2012 for
Perspective.
Is there any other way to achieve it.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks & Regards
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Hi Poomani,
In your scenario, you create a Performance Point Analytic Chart, now the requirement is that limit the Performance Point Analytic Chart drill down dimensions, right?
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345316(v=sql.105).aspx
http://www.jamesserra.com/archive/2011/06/performancepoint-wish-list-change-a-datasource/
If I have anything misunderstand, please point it out.
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Poor performance with WebI and BW hierarchy drill-down...

Hi
We are currently implementing a large HR solution with BW as backend
and WebI and Xcelcius as frontend. As part of this we are experiencing
very poor performance when doing drill-down in WebI on a BW hierarchy.
In general we are experiencing ok performance during selection of data
and traditional WebI filtering - however when using the BW hierarchy
for navigation within WebI, response times are significantly increasing.
The general solution setup are as follows:
1) Business Content version of the personnel administration
infoprovider - 0PA_C01. The Infoprovider contains 30.000 records
2) Multiprovider to act as semantic Data Mart layer in BW.
3) Bex Query to act as Data Mart Query and metadata exchange for BOE.
All key figure restrictions and calculations are done in this Data Mart
Query.
4) Traditionel BO OLAP universe 1:1 mapped to Bex Data Mart query. No
calculations etc. are done in the universe.
5) WebI report with limited objects included in the WebI query.
As we are aware that performance is an very subjective issues we have
created several case scenarios with different dataset sizes, various
filter criteria's and modeling techniques in BW.
Furthermore we have tried to apply various traditional BW performance
tuning techniques including aggregates, physical partitioning and pre-
calculation - all without any luck (pre-calculation doesn't seem to
work at all as WebI apparently isn't using the BW OLAP cache).
In general the best result we can get is with a completely stripped WebI report without any variables etc.
and a total dataset of 1000 records transferred to WebI. Even in this scenario we can't get
each navigational step (when using drill-down on Organizational Unit
hierarchy - 0ORGUNIT) to perform faster than minimum 15-20 seconds per.
navigational step.
That is each navigational step takes 15-20 seconds
with only 1000 records in the WebI cache when using drill-down on org.
unit hierachy !!.
Running the same Bex query from Bex Analyzer with a full dataset of
30.000 records on lowest level of detail returns a threshold of 1-2
seconds pr. navigational step thus eliminating that this should be a BW
modeling issue.
As our productive scenario obviously involves a far larger dataset as
well as separate data from CATS and PT infoproviders we are very
worried if we will ever be able to utilize hierarchy drill-down from
WebI ?.
The question is as such if there are any known performance issues
related to the use of BW hierarchy drill-down from WebI and if so are
there any ways to get around them ?.
As an alternative we are currently considering changing our reporting
strategy by creating several higher aggregated reports to avoid
hierarchy navigation at all. However we still need to support specific
division and their need to navigate the WebI dataset without
limitations which makes this issue critical.
Hope that you are able to help.
Thanks in advance
/Frank
Edited by: Mads Frank on Feb 1, 2010 9:41 PM

Hi Henry, thank you for your suggestions although i´m not agree with you that 20 seconds is pretty good for that navigation step. The same query executed with BEx Analyzer takes only 1-2 seconds to do the drill down.
Actions
suppress unassigned nodes in RSH1: Magic!! This was the main problem!!
tick use structure elements in RSRT: Done it.
enable query stripping in WebI: Done it.
upgrade your BW to SP09: Has the SP09 some inprovements in relation to this point ?
use more runtime query filters. : Not possible. Very simple query.
Others:
RSRT combination H-1-3-3-1 (Expand nodes/Permanent Cache BLOB)
Uncheck prelimirary Hierarchy presentation in Query. only selected.
Check "Use query drill" in webi properties.
Sorry for this mixed message but when i was answering i tryied what you suggest in relation with supress unassigned nodes and it works perfectly. This is what is cusing the bottleneck!! incredible...
Thanks a lot
J.Casas

Javascript Problem for Drill Down Action in SSRS Report when integrated to PPS 2010

Hi all,
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But it is working well in Chrome, I verified in IE and Mozilla, both browsers are having problem.
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Hi Vasu,
The issue might occur due to the Microsoft security update MS11-100 which limits the maximum number of form keys, files, and JSON members to 1000 in an HTTP request. Here, I suggest that you modify the Web.config file of the SharePoint site as follows:
<appSettings>
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</appSettings>
If the SharePoint site uses the port 80, the web.config file of the SharePoint site is located in the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80 folder.
Reference:
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I have a filter and a bubble chat with 7 series. The chart is showing up bubbles with different size and colors as per the settings when I chnage the filter
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I want to drill down to a Bar chart when I click on bubbles. Each bubble click will drill down data into that bar charchart as a pop up. I know how to do it as I have done it in the past with other components.
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2. All bubbles are of same color.
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Hi,
ah ok, now the situation gets clearer ;)
Normally I would say that drill-down requires some kind of interactivity, so I am not sure if reports is the best way for this, because the functionality of reports is:
enter parameters > run > view output. But for drill-down you need some more functionality: select a column/value where you want to drill-in or out, have some kind of hierarchy to select the "drill-level"... I don't think that this is foreseen in Reports 6i. So I would try maybe two different ways:
1. design the report in a way that the users can select the drill-level (or level of detail) as a report parameter. For example you create a parameter "Detail Level" with possible values "Summary", "Detailed Rows". Based on the parameter value chosen the report returns different output. This keeps you of course limited to a certain, fixed set of drill-levels, but I think this is ok in most of the cases.
2. Another option could be to create several different reports, for example one "Summary" report and one "detailed" report, and in the summary report you could include links (dynamic URLs) to the detailed report, and when the user clicks on a certain value in the Summary report, then the detailed report is started for that specific value. However this is a bit more complex, I'd go for the first option.
But to get real drill-down functionality you should consider using Discoverer or BI Publisher technology, those are perfect for such kind of reports.
kind regards,
David.

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Is it possible to supply more than three parameters to the column link?
I am making a drill down from summary report to the detail report, and I need to pass five parameters to the detail report. The list of items under
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is limited to three items. Is there a way around this limitation?
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You need to change you link type from Page In This Application to URL. You'll then need to encode each parameter name and it's value into the last two elements of the f?p format. You can use a two or three parameter URL as an example and just modify from there. 
 
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The relevant part is the last colon (or the fields on either side of it more specifically). The first set of fields P13_NAME,P13_SEQ_ID are my page item names on the destination page (where we're going) and the last two Lee%2C396 are their values from the source page (where we're coming from). The %2C is an encoded comma. In order to get this in your output, you want to set your URL to something like: 
 
f?p=101:13:::NO::P13_ITEM1,P13_ITEM2:&P12_ITEM1.,&P12_ITEM2. 
 
I'm doing this from memory since I can't find a good example for you, but I think I'm pretty close in the syntax. 
 
Hope it helps.

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Hi,
We are using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition v10.1.3.4 running on a Windows 2003 server. The underlying database is an instance of Oracle OLAP 11g v11.1.0.6.0.
It has been noticed that for some of our reports, when we click on a data item which is a hyperlink (member of a hierarchy in the underlying OLAP cube), then it is expected that the report should drill down to show the children of the element being clicked on. For some of these elements, the number of children in the drill down is potentially larger than any 'normal' element. A click (drill down) on such an element results in the following error message being recorded in the NQServer.log and the Presentation Services crash at the same time.
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Thanks and Regards,
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Hi,
We are using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition v10.1.3.4 running on a Windows 2003 server. The underlying database is an instance of Oracle OLAP 11g v11.1.0.6.0.
It has been noticed that for some of our reports, when we click on a data item which is a hyperlink (member of a hierarchy in the underlying OLAP cube), then it is expected that the report should drill down to show the children of the element being clicked on. For some of these elements, the number of children in the drill down is potentially larger than any 'normal' element. A click (drill down) on such an element results in the following error message being recorded in the NQServer.log and the Presentation Services crash at the same time.
*[nQSError: 12002] Socket communication error at call=recv: (Number=10054) An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.*
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Drill Down in Crystal Reports

Gurus,
I am trying to add drill down to my Crystal Report, I know this can be achieved by using Hyperlink but the button for drill down is disabled. How can I enable this achieve the drill down function. Please find attach file for your convince.
Faisal Baloch

Hi Faisal........
Please check the below explanation.......
The Report Part Drilldown option
The Report Part Drilldown option lets you define a hyperlink so that the Report Part Viewer can emulate the drill-down functionality of Crystal Reports. The Report Part Viewer displays only destination objects; therefore, to make drill down work, you need to define a navigation path from a home object to one or more destination objects. When you have multiple destination objects, they must all reside in the same report section.
The Report Part Drilldown option does not affect the DHTML page viewers since the option emulates the default Crystal Reports behavior for drill down (which the page viewers already support). Page viewers, however, do not limit which objects are displayed—they always show all report objects.
Note: Use the Report Part Drilldown option only to navigate between objects in the same report.
Because the Report Part Viewer shows only destination objects, you must define Initial Report Part Settings (that is, a default home object) for a report before your Report Part Drilldown hyperlinks can work. A report's Initial Report Part Settings define the object that appears first in the Report Part Viewer. Think of this object as the place you'll begin your path of drill-down hyperlinks from.
To define Initial Report Part Settings
Open the report whose default home object you want to define.
Right-click the object you want to set as the default home object and select Copy from its shortcut menu.
On the File menu, click Report Options.
In the Initial Report Part Settings area of the Report Options dialog box, click Paste Link.
The program pastes the name and data context of the report object you selected as your home object into the appropriate fields.
Tip: For more information about data contexts, see Data context formats.
Include another object from the same section of the report by entering a semi-colon (;) and typing the name of the object.
Click OK.
To create a Report Part Drilldown hyperlink
Note: Before you begin this procedure, be sure to read Setting up navigation to acquaint yourself with the limitations of creating this type of hyperlink.
Open a report and select the intended destination object; then click the Format button on the Expert Tools toolbar.
Tip: You can also do this by selecting Format Field from the Format menu.
In the Format Editor, click the Hyperlink tab.
In the DHTML Viewer Only area, select Report Part Drilldown.
The "Hyperlink information" area changes to show the fields available for this type of hyperlink.
The Available Fields area shows only the sections and report objects you can select for drill down. In general, these objects include field objects, charts, maps, bitmaps, cross-tabs, and text objects contained in the next section down (that is, for example, objects in group two when the object you selected is in group one).
Note: The Available Fields area does not show suppressed report objects.
In the Available Fields area, select the section or report object(s) you want to use as your drill down destination.
Tip: Use the Report Explorer to quickly identify the default names assigned to each of your report objects. To open the Report Explorer, click its button on the Standard toolbar.
You can add all the objects in a section by selecting the section node. If you expand the section node, you can select one or more of the objects that it contains.
Use the arrow buttons to move the selected section or object(s) to the Fields to Display area.
For ease of identification, the program creates a section node in the Fields to Display area. This node contains the objects that you selected in the Available Fields area.
If you want to add another object to the Fields to Display area, select it in the Available Fields list and drag it into position.
Note:
The position an object has in the Fields to Display area determines how it appears in the Report Part Viewer; top to bottom in the Fields to Display area equates to left to right in the viewer. Use the arrows above the Fields to Display area to change the order of objects. (Note that a programmer can alter this default behavior through the PreserveLayout property of the Report Part Viewer.)
The Fields to Display area can contain only one section at a time. If you try to add a second section or an object from a second section, it replaces any existing section in the Fields to Display area.
Click OK.
You have established a hyperlink from your report's home object to a destination object or objects. In the Report Part Viewer, you will see the home object first, and when you click it for drill down, you will see the destination object(s).
Regards,
Rahul

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Hi ,
Product : Xcelsius SP 3
I have a bubble chat with 7 series. The chart is showing up bubbles with different size and colors as per the settings.
The problem is with drill down
I want to drill down to a X-Y chart when I click on bubbles. Each bubble click will drill down data into that X-Y chart as a pop up. I know how to do it as I have done it in the past with other components.
But when I use drill down with bubble chart, I have to assign separate destination area for each series which makes it difficult to drill down into a chart. What i want is the bubbles to drill down data into a single row so that I can map the Y-axis of chart component to that row and X axis as fixed labels. But I am not able to do that. Moreover once inserted there is no way to clear the destination cells.
However if I use data in range options in bubble chart then I can use drill down as I get only one series in that case. But that method also has limitations.
1. I am not able to display series name on the bubbles. It doesn't make any sense to show bubbles without any labels.
2. All bubbles are of same color.
Is it possible to overcome above two limitations when using data in range option?
Please help if someone has encountered this issue. There has to be some solution for this.
Thanks,
Tarun

Hi Tarun,
as a workaround you could define a special area as mapping area for the X-Y-chart.
This area is filled via excel formulas from the bubble chart drill down destinations. You can concatenate the values from the drill down target areas, like "=A4&A5" etc. Make sure to clear all cells except the actual drill down target cells.
Hope this helps,
best regards
Heiko

Maintain Columns for Higher Levels in Hierarchy when using Drill Down

Hello all,
I've searched through this forum looking for an answer to this, since I thought it might be a common question, but I wasn't able to find any related content. So I apologize if this has already been answered in the past.
I would like to know if when drilling down in a WEBI report, it is possible to automatically add dimension columns to a report as you drill down to the lower levels in the heirarchy, and keep the columns with the higher level dimension values, rather than replace those columns, which is the default behavior. As a simple example, suppose I have the following columns in a report:
Product Sales Amount
Now suppose I have set up a heirarchy in the Universe with Product, Sub-Product, then Region, in that order. In the WEBI report with the drill filter options enabled, when I click on the Product link, the default behavior is to replace the Product column with the Sub-Product dimension and display the following:
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Instead, I would like it to display:
Product Sub-Product Sales Amount
Then subsequently, of course:
Product Sub-Product Region Sales Amount
Does anybody know of a simple way to accomplish this? I suppose this could be accomplished using the openDocument method with links to separate reports showing the addtional columns, but this seems a bit complicated for a relatively smple requirement. I'm hoping that there is an existing simpler solution to this problem. Please advise. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Bernardo,
The drill down capability is vertical and not horizontal. There are two solutions, the one of open document as you mentioned is one. The other solution depends on the way you have deployed your system. If you have given users the capability to run reports in "modify" mode (WebI), then they can insert columns to the grid according to the scenario you mention
Product Sub-Product Sales Amount
and forego using the "drill fiter" per se. If your deployment only permits most users to view the report in "read-only" mode (InfoView), then you have limited options.
Thanks,
John

Crosstab drill down

Hi All,
I have created a report in the following format
chart                                     chart
Breakdown by Location    breakdown by work type
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The second section of the report is grouped by location and work type ( dynamic groups based on parameters) with the appropriate field headers and details.
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Hello Ian,
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