Feasibility of Dashboard

Hi,
We have requiremeny where we have to display detals of cost datawarehouse. We want to check whether dashboard will be the best tool to be used for our requirements.
Requirements:
1) Showing data (table) on basis of Country, state, city hierarchy (drill down required) and graph also required that syns with table to show all these data in graphical way
2) Apart from showing data in geography diemensions we also require to have measures like, volume, cost (Year on year comparison, Year to date comparion, yearly comparison)
3) One more table that will show data but in different hierarchy, like above mentioned data in 'transaction recording' / 'transaction type' hierarchy (4 levels of hierarchy)
May be a tutorial on this or some details to start the POC/prototype will be helpful

Hi Arjun,
Xcelsius is a tool for building dashboards required for decision makers. It is meant to be used when very high level facts or highly summarized data needs to understood in different ways.
As per your description, I understand that the volume of data would be more and low level analysis of data is required. I would suggest you do not go for Xcelsius and instead use Web Intelligence or any other reporting tool (such SAP BEx Analyzer in case you are using SAP BI as one of the sources for BO). Xcelsius is capable of delivering what you have asked for but it is just not meant for this purpose. If the incoming data volume is high, refreshing data in the dashboard would take long which makes it heavy. Your requirement can be easily met with Web Intelligence.
Please share your thoughts and concern.

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Hi,
I have a report showing data pertaining to various different workers. Is it possibile to setup OBI to print different pdf reports, each for every worker. Or, at least, to set it up to print a single PDF report with different pages for every worker (then I'll split the PDF myself)
If that is feasible, would it be feasible also on a dashboard scale (i.e., a dashboard with 4 different analyses) ?
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If you are going to keep this in the Presentation Layer, you are not going to avoid creating multiple version of your reports in one form or another. You cannot use dashboard prompts as a column selector without involving the rpd. So you have several options:
1) Do what I outlined above for your 15 reports.
2) Create two versions of all of your reports, one for USD and one for EUR. Then create one dashboard and put all your USD reports in them and one dashboard to put all the EUR reports. Create another dashboard with one page which you will expose to the users. This page will have two links, "Reports in USD" and "Reports in EUR" which with Link of Image, will link to the two dashboards you created.
There are other methods I can think of, and if you insist on using a Dashboard prompt, you can do that too, but not the way outlined in the BiConsulting Group method that involves the rpd. In any case, it will involve making two versions of your reports, too.
This is your answer, though it may not be favorable to what you want to do.
Another alternative is this: Why don't you just expose both columns side-by-side so the users can see both? That way they don't even have to choose!

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In the Sales Dashboard, the customer is looking to change the ‘Opportunities’ title label to ‘Acquisitions’.
I am having the same difficulty personalizing the "Opportunities" as well as the "Leads" title labels on my internal test environment. The other labels seems to personalize ok.
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Filename = https://gtcr.oracle.com/gtcr-dir/gtcr_763354697/6224385.992/Sales_User.doc
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All your changes are feasible and as you hoped, really simple :)
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2.     Change ‘My Open Opportunities(Owner)’ to ‘My Open Acquisitions(Owner)’: Again check the page xml and find the VO attached to the dropdown list. This will provide you the data source. You can make the changes there.
3.     Change ‘Sales Dashboard’ to ‘Sales’. Change the prompt field for the function entry "Sales Dashboard" in the menu "Sales User"
--Shiv

Can I pass ID of the table instaed of value in dashboard prompts?

HI,
Say, I have a table QUESTION which contains 2 columns: ID, DESCRIPTION.
sample data:
ID DESCRIPTION
1 TEST
2 TEST1
3 TEST11
4 TEST
Herer the DESCRIPTION is stored in the order they appear in a portal application
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TEST
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TEST11
TEST
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Any other ideas are welcome.
thanks
Rishabh

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1. Use CESerializedSession variable, but I don't know how to parse it (and can't find any documentation about it).
2. Get user information in the universe and query it in the dashboard.
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Yury,
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Where is the option to add mata date in the V3 dashboard?

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Title Tag,
Description.
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For now it’s back to the basics with SEO! And nothing is more basically important to a site than properly written title tags. You know the ones that used to appear in the little blue bars in your browsers. Most modern browsers try to conceal these, though that doesn't stop them being helpful!
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Keyword Placement: Your most important words (keywords) need to be first in your title tag, with your least important words being last in the title tag (most to least).
Keyword Separation: Use pipes | to separate important (keyword) phrases (no commas, underscores, dashes or any other punctuation unless the keyword is written that way).
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Company Name: If your company name is not part of the important (keyword) phrases, put it at the end of the title tag or leave it out. If it is part of your important words, put it as the first words in the title tag. Some SEOs will tell you to leave it out. You can leave it in for branding purposes – so people will see the brand and click. This isn't valid for all sites.
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WebAssist Surveyor – Build and submit HTML and XML sitemaps in Dreamweaver
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the dashboard willl be same for all the states. Is it a feasible option. We need to understand the security and performance issue that shoudle be addressed.
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Appreciate your help on this..!
Thanks in Advance,
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Hi Frnds,
As of now, i found the only solution for the above mentioned issue that how to avoid NULL in dashboard prompt level:
Go to the Physical Column properties in Physical Layer and Disable the Nullable option by uncheck the box.
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What is report based total?
while using PIVOT TABLE we find this option of the measures section > more options
Where can we set suppress or repeat default settings?
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Remove My Dashboard completely.
My dashboard is the default dashboard appearing to the users. If I will have to remove this and set another dashboard as default, what is the option
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Thanks in advance,
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Edited by: user630453 on Apr 25, 2009 9:26 AM

What is report based total?
while using PIVOT TABLE we find this option of the measures section > more options
Where can we set suppress or repeat default settings?
On Column properties for duplicate values suppression. I would like to know the difference between the suppress and default
Remove My Dashboard completely.
My dashboard is the default dashboard appearing to the users. If I will have to remove this and set another dashboard as default, what is the option
I would like to the usage procedure for the personalized option on Delivers(IBots)
Thanks in advance,
Samson.
Edited by: user630453 on Apr 25, 2009 9:26 AM

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Hi Rachit
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Asiri

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