In Between date prompt

I have a requirement to create a prompt where there are two dates
FROM_DATE
TO_DATE
Need to put between date functionality that goes like this,
Between FROM_DATE and TO_DATE.
This is easy to implement if there is just one date column, in this case there are two date columns.
Any ideas?

The wrinkle I use is to create a formula; -
case when 1=2 then 0 else 1 end
I then put a prompt on this and repoint it at the date in question as my TO condition.
hope this helps,
Robert.

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Validating is between date prompt

Is there a way to validate the is between date prompt in OBIEE?
The user should not be able to select a end date which is earlier than the start date.

hi,
How about this?
http://shivabizint.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/date-between-validation-for-dashboard-prompt/
before doing,take a backup of your .js file
thanks,
saichand.v

'In Between' Date Prompt to set Session Variables???

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Im very new to OBIEE and was hoping someone could help me. I have a date prompt using the 'in between' operator based on a date column.
I am trying to set up a table in the Physical layer of the RPD using a stored proc (EXEC sp_name). The stored proc takes 2 input paramaters - a start data and an end date. These dates i would like to come from the in between prompt. I have set up the physical table structure to receive the results of the request.
I looked at setting a session variable but it is asking me to insert sql to set the value and i dont want to hit the database outside of the stored proc. Also, even if i have session variables i cant see how to set them to the values in the prompt when using the 'In Between' operator.
Im really very confused and i have been searching the net and the documentation for any clue.
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In between operator doesn't support presentation variable..
so break this into is into two prompts...and use equal to operator, then you can use them as request variables which will in turn override your session variables.
in the report use operator between and use these variables in the filter..

A Date prompt defaulting the data in Report based on selection

Gurus,
I have a requirement , where i have a (in between) date prompt set in the dashboard current defulting to Start Month date and End Month date of current month.
What the user want is based on the selection using a drop down in dashboard which has got values Last Day, Last week, Last Month , the default values in Date filter should change in dashboard.
For Eg. If the user select Last Week, the in between date filter show the default date value as Last Week Mon and Last Sun, and should filter out the report based on that.
Any idea's are welcome....
Thanks & Regards
-Saurabh

Try to see if you can get user to agree on something easier.
Here are the steps to achieve what you want.
1. Create a prompt for 1 day, 2 week, and 3 month
2. Create three separate reports based on above selection, which has page prompt for day/week/month respectively.
3. Create GN based on step in 1 and then let UI change between three reports you created in step 2
I hope this helps,
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Date prompt with a between statement

Can a dashboard support a date range prompt? We are trying to make a prompt and use a between statement. Suggestions?

I think you are using the prompt from the Prompt tab in Answers. What you need to do is use Dashboard prompts.
Although Dashboard prompts have a "between" operator," if you use the 'between" operator, the ability to save the selections to Presentation Variables (PVs) disappears. When I need a "between" dates type prompts, I do the following:
1) Create two Dashboard prompts set to PVs, say StartDate and EndDate. (In the Edit Formula area, use a CASE stmt on the column chosen -- doesn't matter what the column is -- so no action is performed on the column) (e.g., CASE WHEN 1=0 THEN ColumnName.TableName ELSE 'TEST' END)
2) Change control to "Edit Box" so users can input the dates. (If you select two appropriate date columns, you can use the "Drop-down List" option and have the user select a valid date. In that case, you wouldn't use the CASE statement in step 1.)
2) In your report, filter on the date column, convert the filter to SQL, and type in the following:
+"Column name"."Table Name"+ BETWEEN '@{StartDate}' AND '@{uEndDate}'
3) Place both the prompts and the report on a dashboard and when a start and end date is selected, the "between" function is performed on the report.
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Edited by: LC143 on Sep 3, 2008 9:52 AM

How to get date prompts from one date column

i have a requirement where i have to filter the data between two date prompts. i have only one date column and the date in the prompts shuld be selected by calendar.
i have seen may approaches to do this and i got one where two dummy date columns should be declared in repository and used to define the date prompts.
but using other methods i could not get the calendar option in prompt.
but is there any other way to get the prompts with calndar selection without defining the dummy columns in repository
thanks

you can do that first select the date column you want to use in dashboard prompt then select another column and in the dashboard prompts then open the fx of the date prompt you first selected copy that and paste it in the second column and in the control section click on calender it will work you can use same date column as two prompts with out creating new column.

Crystal Report Date Prompt Query from SAP BW

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Using Crystal Report 2008 and Query is design In SAP BW
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If the prompt value should always be CurrentDate -1, then there is no need to use a prompt at all. Just put the formula to the selection criteria.
If you want the prompt to default to CurrentDate -1, while allowing the user to change the prompt to another date if they wish... That won't work. CR won't allow you to use a formula as the default value in a prompt.
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Date Prompt in OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0

Good Afternoon, hope you all are well.
We have the following issue in our production environment.
Our Exact Date prompt is causing our reports to error, the reason being is that the relevant Fact table to the prompt has no data.
Is there a piece of SQL we can add to the prompt to say if it cannot find any data to that specific date then use SYSDATE?
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Thats not giving correct value. the Amount filter is also considering the date filters.
Data Available:
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A1               Jan 2015          100
A2               Feb 2015          150
A3               Mar 2015           200
I am getting below result:
Filters
Date from: 01-FEB-2015
Date to : 24-March-2015
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A2               Feb 2015          150                    350
A3               Mar 2015           200                    350
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Date prompt in obiee

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TimestampDiff and TimestampADD( Difference of two dates) in OBIEE
How to get a difference between two dates (in terms ) of days,weeks,months what every it may be
The below formula gives you no.of days between day date and current_Date
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The below formula gives you no.of months day date and current_Date
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Display all dates between date range (Time Dimension left outer join Fact)

All,
I have done some searching around this issue but within all the posts regarding date variables, date prompts and date filtering I haven't seen one exactly answering my issue (maybe they are and I just dont have my head around it correctly yet).
My report requirement is to allow a user to select a start day and an end day. The report should show all activity between those two days - AND display 0/null on days where there is no activity. That second part is where I am getting hung up.
The tables in question are:
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EventFact
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My BMM is setup as follows:
TimeDim left outer join EventFact
CustomerDim inner join EventFact
If I run a report selecting DAY from TimeDim and a measure1 from EventFact with day range 1/1/2010 - 12/31/2010 .. I get a record for every day and it looks perfect because of the left outer join between TimeDim and CustomerDim.
But .. if I add in a field from CustomerDim, select TimeDim.DAY, CustomerDim.CUSTNAME, EventFact.MEASURE1, OBIEE only returns records for the days that have EventFact records.
This is due to the fact that the TimeDim is still outer joined into EventFact but adding in CustomerDim makes OBIEE setup an inner join between those tables which then causes only data to be returned where EventFact data exists.
There is a way around this in this simple case and that is to define the relationship between CustomerDim and EventFact as an outer join as well. This will give the desired effect (but an outer join between these two tables is not the true relationship) and as I add additional dimensions and add additional logical sources to a single dimension in the BMM it gets complicated and messy.
Ive also messed with setting the driving table in the relationship, etc.. but it has not given the desired effect.
Has anyone ever encountered the need to force display all dates within a specfied range with a fact table that may not have an entry for every date?
Thanks in advance.
K
Edited by: user_K on Apr 27, 2010 11:32 AM

It worked!!!* Even my time drill downs and date based filtering still work!
That is awesome. Never would have thought of that intuitively.
Now, just need a little help understanding how it works. When I run my report and check the logs I can see that two queries are issued:
Query 1: Joins the fact table to all the associated dimensions. I even changed all the relationships to inner joins (which is what they truly are). And calculates the original measure. If I copy and paste this query into sql developer it runs fine but only returns those rows that joined to the time dimension - which is what was happening before. It is correct but I wanted a record for every time dimension record.
Query 2: Looks like the following:
select sum(0)
from timedim
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group by month *<--* this is the time dimension level specified in Query 1, so it knows to aggregate to the month level as was done in query 1
Final Question: So what is OBIEE doing ultimately, does it issue these two requests and then perform a full outer join or something to bring them together? I couldn't see anywhere in the log a complete query that I could just run to see a similar result that I was getting in Answers.
Thanks for all the help .. Id give more points if I could.
K

InfoView date prompts problem

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Edited by: Pietras on Dec 5, 2011 1:35 PM

792011 wrote:
Hi Gurus,
I am trying to get Date Prompts from one Date Column. This is the approach i followed from previous post.
Re: how to get date prompts from one date column
My Approach
1) In the report I set filter on Date column with presentation variable as startdate with some default date and in the fx window i applied
CASE WHEN 1=0 THEN table.Date ELSE table.Date END
2) I repeated the same thing by getting same date column with Presentation Variable as Enddate with some default date and in the fx i applied
CASE WHEN 1=1 THEN table.Date ELSE table.Date END
3) In the Dashboard prompt i got the same date column twice by applying same formulas in fx, default to - server variable - sysdate and setting Set variable - presentation variable - startdate and same thing with Enddate.
The report is working fine but the report is not pulling all the records. I mean to say i have data from 12:04:36 am but report is pulling from 12:37:53 am. So i am missing some records. I dont know where i am doing mistake.
Could someone please help me out
Thank You
Edited by: 792011 on Sep 14, 2011 11:00 AMBased on what you said you did, it shouldn't work. The CASE statement you have in steps 1) and 2) which you put in the fx window of two columns, are in effect the same thing as just having two instances of your table.Date column.
Follow the steps in this link and you should be good to go:
http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/oracle-bi-ee-101332-between-prompts-for-date-columns-using-presentation-variables/

Date Prompt

Hi
I need to select date range from say 2007 Nov to 2008 Feb. How do I go about it? I just have year column and month column. I tried is between on prompt for both year and month and it doesnt work. Is there any other way to do it?
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Don't just say, "It doesn't work." Publish your code and your steps. It could very well be that you just didn't do it correctly. There are many ways to approach this. Here's one which is the simplest to understand. For this you need 4 prompts saved to the following Presentation Variables (PVs): Start Year (strtYear), End Year (endYear), Start Month (strtMonth) and End Month (endMonth).
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There are variations to this depending on what kind of flexibility you wish the users to use. If it is always the "year selected and the previous year," you only need one Year prompt, say YEAR. The second prompt would then be @{YEAR}-1 in your filter.
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To display Date prompts in narrative view

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Need help to join two tables using three joins, one of which is a (between) date range.

I am trying to develop a query in MS Access 2010 to join two tables using three joins, one of which is a (between) date range. The tables are contained in Access. The reason
the tables are contained in access because they are imported from different ODBC warehouses and the data is formatted for uniformity. I believe this cannot be developed using MS Visual Query Designer. I think writing a query in SQL would be suiting this project.
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XYZSERIAL
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This table has many orders (MSORDER) that need to match one order (GLORDER) in GLORDR. This is based on MSPART joined to GLPART, MSSERIAL joined to GLSERIAL, and MSOPNDATE joined if it falls between GLSTARTDATE and GLENDDATE.
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MSPART
MSSERIAL
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GLENDDATE
ABC11111
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Post Query table
GLORDER
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GLSTARTDATE
GLENDDATE
MSOPNDATE
ABC11111
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1/2/2015
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1/5/2015
4/10/2015
1/6/2015
ABC22222
33333333
1/5/2015
4/10/2015
3/5/2015
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FROM GLORDR INNER JOIN MSORDR ON (GLORDR.GLSERIAL = MSORDR.MSSERIAL) AND (GLORDR.GLPART = MSORDR.MSPART);

How to handle date prompt in report

Hi I have date column on database as timestamp.
Now need to apply filter in report based on date prompt.
Do i nee to cast it in Date format..or how i can do it.
thanks,

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