Passing Dashboard Prompt Value to multiple pages in a Dashbaord

Hello,
I have a situation where I neeed to pass value of Customer ID from first dashboard page to multiple pages belonging to same Dashboard. What is the best way to implement ?
Thanks !
Raj

I created a presentation variable for the prompt and when I acess the same variable in the second page (for another report), its not giving accurate results. should I write an SQL and pass the variable to the report in the next page and so on ..?
Thanks,
Raj

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How to pass dashboard prompt value to requests in folder

Hi,
I want to have a dashboard page that contains dashboard prompt for period and list with requests (for this I add Folder and select "Expand folder").
If I use dashboard prompt to set presentation variables, the chosen value is not passed to requests in folder list and as I understand this is the way presentation variables work. Therefore I tried to use Request variable, but get the same result - value that is chosen in dashboard prompt, influences request only if it is shown in dashboard not if I open it from folder list.
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If I include this report directly in dashboard, it shows the session value that is set from dashboard prompt, however when I open it from folder list, it shows the default value 2008.08 although I have stayed in the same session.

Iza, you are correct in your assumption regarding passing Presentation Variables to reports that are in the Folders object. If you have a dashboard prompt on the same page as the Folders object, then even if you select a value in the prompt, it will not pass when you click on the report name in you Folders object.
Here is something you might want to consider to achieve what I think you are trying to do. Instead of having the Dashboard prompt on the first page, create a "table of contents" home dashboard page. What I mean is:
1) First, create a Dashboard page with the prompts you wish to filter a report with and set the default values. Save this as the template dashboard page. Now, with a second copy of this template, drag one of your reports to this page. Save it. Using your dashboard template page, create another copy and drag the second report to this page. Save. Do this for each report you wish to display. Note that you can drag more than one report to a dashboard page.
When you are done, you will have several dashboard pages, each with one or more reports and the dashboard prompts on the top of the page.
2) Now on your "home page," drag the Link or Image to a section. Link this object to the first dashboard page you created in step one. Name the link the title of your report. If there are more than one report on this page, title the link appropriately. Click the "open in new window" checkbox. Drag a Link or Image object for each dashboard page you created in step one.
When you are done, this home page will look similar to your Folders object, with links to each of your dashboard pages that contain the reports. When the user clicks on the link, the appropriate dashboard page will appear with the dashboard prompts and the report will be filtered on the default values. Now the user can change the values of the prompts as desired. When the user is done, he/she can close the window and he/she will be taken back to the home page to select another report.

Passing Dashboard Prompt values to different dashboard.

Hi All,
I want to pass the selected prompt values from my current dashboard to a different dashboard. I am using a navigate function to go to the other dashboard.
The scenario is:
I am using a column formulae to navigate to the different dashboard.The column formulae written is:
case when rank ("Table".column ) <=10 then cast(rank ("Table".column) as char(10)) else ''||'+'|| '' END
In this scenario, the dashboard prompts are not get passed to the other dashboard.
In other case when I do not customize the column as stated above and in the Column Property just give a 'Navigate' in the Value Interaction it passes the prompt values to the other dashboard.
Similarly can we do something in the column formulae or using something else to pass on the dashboard Prompt values to the other dashboard.
Please Note that the dashboard Prompts in both the dashboards are exactly same.
Regards,
Bhavik

Bhavik,
Your nearly there, simply extend your URL syntax and pass the colum values with it, see here :
http://sureshotstrategies.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/integrating-oracle-obiee-content-using-go-url-syntax-2/
e.g
http://webserver/analytics/saw.dll?Go&Path=%2Fshared%2FSupplier%2FRegionDollars&Action=Navigate&col1=Periods.%22Year%22&val1=%221999%22&op1=eq
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value : 1999
operator : equals (=)

How to Pass dashboard prompt value to RPD variable??

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So you want to pick a month in a dashboard prompt and have the answers report filter for that month, and return results for that month, month -1, month -2 etc etc.
If so try the following, lets assume your measure is simply called 'count'
in the BMM you have measure 'count' with aggregation set.
Create a new measure in the BMM called 'count MAGO' or whatever you want (this will be month -1)
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repeat steps to create 'count 2MAGO' and use -2 in the AGO function to take off 2 months.
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Sorted?

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Problem with passing dashboard prompts

Hi All,
I have a problem with passing dashboard prompts.
Scenario:
I have a report with country(column interaction),amount sold and two prompts.when the user selects the particular country, i need to navigate to other detailed dasboard with 2 prompts and country.
with the column interaction, am able to navigate to other dashboard with all the prompts only when the target dashboard prompts, defaults to presentation variable.
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Thnx in Advance

Hi,
When you drill down, corresponding filter values get added to your report. So next time when you change the prompt values It does not give you proper data.
So before you change the prompt values, you comeback to the default report. and try changing the prompt values.
Otherwise you can do one thing, Do not enable drill in place for the report section. So when you try to drill down in the report, it takes you to the new page.
And in the main page even if you change prompt values, It will work perfectly.
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TKB

Passing Dashboard prompts - Need help

Hi All,
I have a problem with passing dashboard prompts.
Scenario:
I have a report with country(column interaction),amount sold and two prompts.when the user selects the particular country, i need to navigate to other detailed dasboard with 2 prompts and country.
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Thnx in Advance

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Dashboard prompt value not carried over to report in a Link on Dashboard

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Getting the dashboard prompt value

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I there a way on how can i get the dashboard prompt value when using other operators beside equal/is in. It seems that you can only set a presentation variable using the equal/is in operator.
Also how can i get prompt value when using multi-select control?

Hi. Yes, presentation variable is only for is equal to/is in.
But no need to use other operators ( is less than or equal to, etc) if you want to write data in presentation variable, use equal/is in if you want to show data that is for example less and set presentation variable and in the report instead if IS PROMPTED write advanced SQL filter like:
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You asked also how can to get prompt value when using multi-select control?
No way to do that. But what do you need that information for. Lets say that you are able to do that and you put multiple values from multi-select into variable, where do you need to present that data? In the report? No need for that because the report is already filtered by it.
Also check this one:
Using multiple values row wise session variables in dashboard prompts and requests
http://108obiee.blogspot.com/2009/10/using-multiple-values-row-wise-session.html
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Unexpected behavior with dashboard prompts set to "scope = page". Help

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I've got three dashboard pages that have a prompt with start/end dates set using ST_DT and END_DT presentation variables. Each of those pages has a report with a column that drills to the same 4th page, a detail report. Each page has it's dashboard prompt scope set to "Page."
I can switch freely between the first three tabs and enter different dates, run the reports, and the prompt dates aren't overwriting each other between tabs. However, if i drill to the detail page from any of those reports and then switch back, the start/end dates prompts are suddenly being overwritten.
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Dashboard prompt value is not passing into the report

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I am using OBIEE 10g. The problem is in Oracle BI Answers
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How filter condition I should use for EMPLOYEE_DATA.ENAME column in the report so that the prompt value will pass to the report properly ?
Thanks
Edited by: Kuldip on Feb 21, 2013 6:17 AM

Hi Kuldip,
There are 2 ways of doing it.
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2. The easy way: Add a "No Result" view to your report and add few spaces in the text.
Let me know if this helped.
Regards,
Jay

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Clear default dashboard prompt values

We have created a few dashboard prompts that are defaulted to server variables. When a user enters the dashboard page, they want to these values to be populated with a start and end date for a specific reporting period. They also want to be able to select a different reporting period (year, quarter, etc.). We have put a "Clear my Selections" button on the page, but that does not clear the prompts that have a defaulted value. The only workaround is to manually deleted the defaulted values, which makes the clear button almost useless and difficult to train the users.
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Restricting dashboard prompt values in obiee 11g

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I have a requirement to restrict the length of the dasboard prompt value to min of # characters.
Please let me know if you have any idea (JScript).
Regards,
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See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg622942%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
Basically, IE9 breaks flash ExternalInterface calls if your flash component is embedded with an object tag with an embed tag fallback, and the object id and embed name is the same.
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Column hiding based on Dashboard Prompt value in OBIEE 10g

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Can you please let me know, whether there is any possibility of "hiding the column based on the value selected in the Dashboard Prompt".
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Thanks & Regards
Siva

Hi,
Simple way to solve it.
Steps
1.) set presentation variable for each columns of your dashboard prompt
2.) edit your analysis of table/pivot view ---> colums formate header in this place just keep it your presentation variable values like below
E.x
@{ccy}
Then save it and then test out
Some more reference:
http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/oracle-bi-ee-101332-dynamic-column-headers-using-presentation-variables-sets-and-conditional-formatting
http://total-bi.com/2011/03/obiee-dynamic-column-headings
Thanks
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Edited by: Devarasu on May 17, 2012 8:32 PM

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