Narrative View chnage how data is viewed

When I select a narrative view, and enter @1 and @2 in the body, I am seeing the data structured this way:
Jan 10% Feb 20% Mar 25%
I want the data to look like this:
Jan Feb Mar
10% 20% 25%
Can this be done? Thanks.

You can make use of HTML table tags
in prefix section ---> <table>
in narrative -->
<tr>
<td> ....
</td>
in postfix (close the table) ---> </table>
Make sure that you check the check box for 'Contains HTML Markup'
Regards,
Raghu

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I'm new to Obiee.I have created 'From Date' prompt (greater than or equal to ) and 'To date'(less than or equal to) prompts ,I was able to display the reports correctly ,What i need is to display the chosen dates in title of the report.How can i achieve this using Answers? (i.e)In title i need to display 'Pending Amount Between FromDate to ToDate '
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply.I was able to complete major part of my need.But the last thing i need is,
Using presentation variables i was able to display the dates correctly in Table View,but i'm able to display only the 'From Date' in my narrative view.I need to display the 'To Date' also in my narrative view.I had applied two filters (i.e;greater than or equal to presentation variable and less than or equal to presentation variable)in column 'Date' .
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I'm going to create a Narrative view that shows what the users has selected in about 10 dashboards prompts. I'm typing things like ... Period: @{p_date_from} ... and so on.
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How to set page break for Narrative view???

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My answer result set Returns 3 rows
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2005 $100
2006 $200
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obieefan,
Add narrative view to compund layout and in the narrative area add @1@2...
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Data in a narrative view.

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You can do this with pivot table, it is not possible with Narrative.
1. Create pivot view for same report
2. exclude all the columns other than the column you want to show
3. Put the column in measures
4. duplicate the column, drag the duplicate column in to columns and hide
5. drag measure labels into Rows
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How to display presentation variable in a narrative view

Is there any way that we can display the prompt value stored in a presentation variable in the narrative view?

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use this synatx @{PRESENTATION_VARIABLE}{'Default'}
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How to pass column values to narrative view in obiee11g

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my report values like this
Month_name value
Jan 100
Feb 500
march 400
April 1000
Now I can display march values in narrative view
Ex:march values is 400.
when i use @1,@2 it will display the Jan values.
And Also i want show the Table view also in same report.

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Using dynamic sql you can pass column name to function. well I am not getting what you really want to do ? Please write in more detail. By the way I am providing one example here. see it uses dynamic sql.
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v_stmt varchar2(500);
begin
v_stmt := 'update emp
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return 0;
commit;
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Hi,
sorry , i could not solve the problem. the below case statement i put in the formula of a date column but i got some syntax error.One more thing is case statement is appearing in the select query not in where condition. Do u mean to say if i will put the same column as is prompted then it will come in where condition.
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These are the step you have to follow
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and in the dashboar prompt defualt to drop down select repository variable and give the current year repository variable there
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I have a table that lists customer sales., e.g.
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Cust3 350 3
Cust4 300 4
Cust5 40 5
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Cust7 20 7
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Thank you, HM... that worked great!!
I have another quick follow up - is there a way to refer to individual values in the result set in a narrative? For example, based on the same table:
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Cust1 800 1
Cust2 450 2
Cust3 350 3
Cust4 300 4
Cust5 40 5
Cust6 30 6
Cust7 20 7
Cust8 10 8
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Thank you, HM... that worked great!!
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Customer $mn Rank
Cust1 800 1
Cust2 450 2
Cust3 350 3
Cust4 300 4
Cust5 40 5
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Yes, sorry, client is obviously sufficient as well.
Just tried your code and same behaviour here and it doesn't do squat either. Can't deep-dive into that code right now but it's definitely code-related issue rather than a browser one for example.
Thought about trying d3js? Would be easier to reproduce for me as I use that more often than Google's data-munching pipe that pushes all your data through Google Analytics
Edit: Clicked too quickly. Wanted to point you to the SampleApp dashboard page which hosts the example I meant: http://slc02oka.oracle.com:7780/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&PortalPath=%2Fshared%2F02.%20Visualizations%2F_portal%2F2.32…
Username Prodney
Password Admin123
Edit 2: Jesus I really should stop clicking "Save Reply" just to not lose it. Simply show your analysis on a dashboard and you're fine. It'll work.

Presentation variable in iframe/narrative view/Go URL

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I have a prompt ISSN
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I could able to do that with no issues,
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'<font color=red>'||replace(col,' ','</font><font color=green>')||'</font>'
BTW:
Thank you Srini,
one more and last thing
i have word like MY NAME
and I wanted to display MY in one color and Name in another Color.(Narrative view)
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Edited by: Srini VEERAVALLI on Mar 19, 2013 1:41 PM
Just own it; you get # of ways to get output ;)
Edited by: Srini VEERAVALLI on Mar 19, 2013 1:43 PM

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