DrillDown in Pivot Table - answer

How can I have a column title drill down in a pivot table?
When you create a regular table the user can do a Drill down by clicking the column title or a particular element.. when he click over the column title he get a drill down for all the element...
When I create a Pivot Table I'm getting only the element drilldown and loosing the column title drilldown
Thanks!!!

How about just using a column selector? Would be a lot easier. If you show "Continent" by default as a level of your geo hierarhcy (just an example) and you want to see all "Regions" then you can just switch between levels with the column selector. Add the necessary prompts to the page to be able to constrain the data set retrieved and Bob's you uncle.
Cheers,
C.

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Hi,
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Regards,
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Can any one tell how to create pivot table

Hi ,
Am trying to create a pivot tabel in the MDM Import Manager. Iam able to see the preview of the pivot table which i want to create. But when i try to click "OK" button, an error message getting displayed like...
"The new table cannot be created because the data source is not updatable.You may need the data source to an updatable format such as Microsoft Access before proceeding".
Due to the above error am not able to create pivot table, plz let me know if any one know how to solve this problem
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Hi Praveen ,
The solution to your problem is -
The data source must be updateable in order for MDM to
create the new pivot or reverse pivot table. However, you can still
perform the steps leading up to table creation including the preview
even on a data source that is not updateable, so that you can explore
pivoting or reverse pivoting as a transformation option. If you then
decide you want to actually create the new table, convert the data
source into a format that is updateable (such as Microsoft Access) and
perform the pivot or reverse pivot on the new data source.
To create a pivot table, you must identify the source fields that
participate in the pivot, which ones contain metadata and which ones
contain data, which ones must be combined, the one-to-one
correspondence between metadata and data fields and/or field
combinations, and the key field or fields.
To create a pivot table:
1. In the drop-down list of source tables, make sure the table you want to
pivot is the current source table.
2. In the Source Hierarchy tree, select all the field nodes corresponding to
both the metadata fields and the data fields by which you want to pivot.
3. Right-click on one of the nodes and choose Create Pivot Table from the
context menu, or choose Source > Create Pivot Table from the main
menu
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5. In the Key Fields dual-list drop-down control, move one or more fields
from the Available Fields list to the Selected Fields list to identify the
key fields on which to perform the pivot
6. In the dual-list control of fields, drag-and-drop the data fields from the
Field Values Become Field Names list to the Field Values Become
Field Values list
7. If necessary, select two or more fields in either list that must be
combined into a field combination, and click on the Combine button, or
right-click on one of the fields and choose Combine from the context
menu
8. If necessary, drag-and-drop fields or field combinations within each list
to create the one-to-one correspondence between metadata fields and
data fields.
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of the pivot table
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have the desired effect, click OK to close the Create Pivot Table dialog.
11. The MDM Import Manager creates a new table named table <Pivot>
in the data source (where table is the name of the original source
table).
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table on which to perform subsequent import processing.
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Regards
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I have a request that has baffled me.
I need a way to use 'text' to describe the results of a report. If I were doing a simple report,
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I have a report that uses a Union via Set Operations (so I'm combining two result sets).
The results are then shown in a pivot table.
Within the pivot table, variances were created using 'New Calculated Item' under measures.
I want to be able to display in a narrative, or some other magical technique, the results of theses calculated items.
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<pre>
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Sales have increased 50% compared with last quarter. (<- desired result)
Today, I can show @1, @2 etc, but it only shows the columns under 'Date 1'.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!
Cindy

First, if you design a report correctly (e.g., accurate and descriptive headers, etc.), you greatly reduce the need for an "explanation of data." It should be intuitive. If it is confusing to understand, the design of the report should be looked at. (Is this report illustrating what the user needs to see? Should I use a graph instead of a table or vice-versa? Am I reporting on the right metrics?)
That being said, it may be helpful at times to have a narrative to give an overall view of what the report displays. For this, you have the Narrative View to explain whatever might make the report more useful to the end-user. For example, you may have them note certain conditions and what that would mean, etc. (Conditional formatting would be great for this, unless you are considering cross-column conditioning in which case conditional formatting doesn't work.*)
But if you are looking for row-by-row explanations where you use the data in the row as part of the "explanation" (as inferred by your inclusion of @1 and @2, etc. in your question), then I think you may be trying to please your end-users a bit too much. Perhaps I have misunderstood you, so I shall end here and wait for your response.
*Until 11g, that is. There are also workarounds...

Not able to see data in Pivot table

Hi,
I have a issue with pivot table i have a column which displays values 0 and 1 and another column called month when i am placing this month column as a section and values column as a measure i am not seeing any values means i can see the month as header but instead showing 0 or 1 its showing blank columns. previously i created similar kind of table it worked but at that time values column data type is number this time its char. can anybody help me out how i can see the data in the pivot table. i already tried converting this column to number but still i am not able to see data in that values column.
Thanks

Hi copter,
Place the month column in rows and value column in measure section and check if results are coming.If still it doesnt come i suppose you dint apply aggregation rules to value column.In pivot view click values column and aggregate by /select min or max or either server complex and check your results.
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Cheers,
KK

How to update ADF VO object to refresh the data in ADF Pivot table

I need to know how to update the View object so that the date in pivot table is refreshed/updated/filtered.
here are the steps I performed to create ADF pivot table application using VO at design time.
1) created a collection in a Data Control (ViewObject in an ApplicationModule) that provides the values I wanted to use for row and column labels as well the cell values (Used the SQL query)
2) Dragged this collection to the page in which wanted to create the pivot table
3) In the pivot table data binding editor specified the characteristics of the rows (which attribute(s) should be displayed in header), the columns (likewise) and the cells.
Now, I have a requirement to update/filter the data in pivot table on click of check box and my question is how to I update the View object so that the date in pivot table is refreshed/updated/filtered.
I have got this solution from one of the contact in which a WHERE clause on an underlying VO is updated based upon input from a Slider control. In essence, the value of the control is sent to a backing bean, and then the backing bean uses this input to call the "filterVO" method on the corresponding AppModule:
but, I'm getting "operationBinding" object as NULL in following code. Please let me know what's wrong.
here is the code
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public void setDataValue(boolean value) {
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Did you define a filterVO action in your pagedef.xml file?
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