OBIEE Drill Up/Down

Hi,
I am pretty new to OBIEE, and I am learning it by generating some simple reports. The concept, which is still not clear to me, is drilling down the reports. How can we achieve drilling functionality in OBIEE? Is there a good help document, which I can read?
Thanks.

I got it guys..
Custom drill-downs simplified
Navigation—or drill-down—in Siebel Analytics is usually determined by the configuration of the business model in the Analytics Server. However, Siebel Analytics Answers provides developers with a handy feature that allows for the creation of custom navigation.
How it works
Let’s assume that you have created a report, let’s call it Report 1, in Siebel Answers and you would like to drill-down to a second report, let’s call it Report 2, by clicking on a specific column. Follow these steps to achieve the desired results:
·     Create a source report (Report 1) in Siebel Answers. This is the report from which you will drill down.
·     Create a target report (Report 2) in Siebel Answers. This report will be the destination report used when drilling down from the source (Report 1). In addition, the target report (Report 2) will be filtered by the value passed when clicking on Report 1. Make sure that both reports use common column names or variables.
·     In Report 1, click on the “Format Column” button for the column from which you would like to drill down. Next select the “Navigate to another request or Dashboard” option, browse to locate the target report (Report 2) and save your changes
·     In Report 2, click on the “Add Filter” button for the column you would like the filter to be applied. In the “Operator” list choose “Is Prompted” and save your changes.

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+
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