Passing Parameters for Dashboard Prompts to Answers Report

I have the following requirement.
I want to pass the value of a 2 dashboard prompts to an answers report. What is the syntax using GO URL method.
Thoughts anyone?

Refer to this link on how to achieve this: http://www.iwarelogic.com/2010/09/integrating-oracle-obiee-content-using-go-url-850/
Regards,
-Amith.

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Problem while passing parameters for dashboard prompts in URL

Hi,
We have created a dashboard on OBI which has some dashboard prompts. We have a requirement that we shall open the dashboard from an external application. We are doing this by invoking an URL. We want the dashboard to turn with prompts already being applied.
I was trying to open the dashboard with the following URL
http://<servername:port>/analytics/saw.dll?Go&PortalPath=/shared/Procurement%20and%20Spend/_portal/Supplier%20Performance&Page=Overview
But when I use the above Go URL the dashboard is not coming up. It shows the following error
No Columns
The request cannot be performed because it contains no columns.
When I use the following URL(which has the keyword 'Dashboard' not 'Go') the Dashboard is coming up fine
http://<servername:port>/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&PortalPath=/shared/Procurement%20and%20Spend/_portal/Supplier%20Performance&Page=Overview
There are dashboard prompt defined in dashboard. When I try to send the filter value via URL(given below) it is not working. I just see the Dashboard coming up.
http://<servername:port>/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&NQUser=Administrator&NQPassword=SADMIN&PortalPath=/shared/Procurement%20and%20Spend/_portal/Supplier%20Performance&Page=Overview&P0=1&P1=eq&P2=Supplier."Supplier%20Name"&P3=1+AccessMicron
when we use the keyword Dashboard in the URL , can we pass the parameter for the dashboard proimpt ..? If we can do that .. how to do that ..? Is it the same manner that we do for Go URL. ..?
Please let me know if you need any more information on this.
Thanks in advance for your time,
Raj Kumar
Edited by: Raja Kumar on Jan 22, 2010 3:29 AM

Hi Raj,
Raghu is correct, you need the Action=Navigate to make prompts work, otherwise you get move to the target dashboard without prompts.
I think you figured it out your self, but the ?Go is for Answer Requests and ?Dashboard is for navigating to dashboards.
I would also recommend using col1="COLUMN_NAME" and val1=value syntax instead of the P0,P1, etc, etc. It's a little easier to read and implement.
Try this:
http://<servername:port>/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&Action=Navigate&NQUser=Administrator&NQPassword=SADMIN&PortalPath=/shared/Procurement%20and%20Spend/_portal/Supplier%20Performance&Page=Overview&col1=%22Supplier%22.%22Supplier%20Name%22&val1=1+AccessMicron
Good luck!
Best regards,
-Joe

How to pass values to dashboard prompts from external applications

Any idea is well appreciated.
How can I pass values of dashboard prompts from external applications to the dashboard prompts so that the dashboard is prefiltered based on values sent by external applications.
Thanks in Advance!
Kris

Kris,
i am able to change the session variable and able to call the dashboard from external app, but i identified prompt value not changing. but Finally i am able to found a workaround for you.
Use the following URL and it explained here
http://localhost:9704/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&nquser=Administrator&nqpassword=Administrator&PortalPath=/shared/abcd/_portal/dash1&Options=rmf&DSN=madan
PortalPath is your dashboard location. /shared/abcd is folder where i saved dashboards. dash1 is my dashboard name.
internally this dashboard includes many reports that uses the session variable. after doing above this i am able to update the session variable to the value i have given in URL, DSN=value.
You may observer here that calls the dashboard and passes the value but its not updating the prompt value. so workaround for this is edit your prompt,
change the Default to - SQL Results and place the sql
SELECT CASE WHEN 1=0 THEN Markets.Region ELSE VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.DSN) END saw_0 FROM Paint
again here Market.Region is column from presentation layer and Paint is subject area. After doing this step, your prompt always shows value in the session varible as default.
Now include reports and dashboard prompt in the dashboard and run this url from external applicaitons.
http://localhost:9704/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&nquser=Administrator&nqpassword=Administrator&PortalPath=/shared/abcd/_portal/dash1&Options=rmf&DSN=madan
it worked for me and blog this soon. if it works for you mark the question as answered and mark my replies as correct.
thanks
- Madan

Seperate Subject area for Dashboard Prompts

Hi,
Is there any way by which we can create seperate subject areas for OBIEE dashboard prompt only??
Thanks

Hi,
Yes we can create separate subject areas for dashboard prompt's alone. Here is a case
Say we need to create a constraint enabled prompt in our dashboard. So we bring in two dimension columns into the prompt.
When we run the prompt, the queries across these two dimensions go through a fact table (Because the only way two different dimensions can be joined is through a fact . This fact table is chosen by BI Server intelligently at run time and that can be set through Implicit Fact column also though). In this case there is a chance that some of the dimension rows might get skipped in the constrained prompt as all of the records might not be present in the fact table.
To mitigate this issue, we might want to create a separate subject area for dashboard prompts alone (using some fact less fact or by having a surrogate key in the 2nd dimension table etc).
Hope I am clear :)
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Default width for dashboard prompts

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Does anyone know how to set the default width for dashboard prompts? Is there an XML file that contains this value?
Thanks.

During creation of prompts you can set additional format just check available icon on that layout. If it is 10g just look at above the heading 'Dashboard Prompt'.
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Passing Parameters For Same Columns In 2 Different Tables

OBIEE 11g
I have 2 different dimension tables in my Subject Area.
Dim1 has following columns: Promotion Code, Promotion Description, Promotion Date
Fact1 has following columns: a_count, b_count, c_count
Dim2 has following columns: Promotion Code, Promotion Description, Promotion Date
Fact2 has following columns: a_count, b_count, c_count, d_count
Report 1 has following columns: Promotion Code, Promotion Description, Promotion Date, a_count, b_count, c_count (From Dim1 & Fact1)
Report 2 has following columns: Promotion Code, Promotion Description, Promotion Date, a_count, b_count, c_count, d_count (From Dim2 & Fact2)
I have tried to pass the parameters Promotion Code, Promotion Description, Promotion Date from Report 1 to Report 2 but this has not worked for me as Report 2 is not receiving the parameters. Is there a way I can do this. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for your response Jay,
In Report 1 I have added prompts (Prompts tab) for Promotion Code, Promotion Description and Promotion Date. I have also set the following presentation variables in the prompts:
PromotionCode,
PromotionDescription
PromotionDate
In Report 2 I then add a filter for each of the same columns and match them to the presentation variables created in Report 1 as follows:
Promotion Code is equal to / is in @{PromotionCode}
Promotion Description is equal to / is in @{PromotionDescription}
Promotion Date is equal to / is in @{PromotionDate}
My expectation is that the values in the presentation variables will be passed from the Prompts in Report 1 to the filters in Report 2. This is not what is happening. Im not sure what I am doing wrong.

Using Calendar Picker (Dashboard Prompt) variable in report filter

Hi All,
I have checked the forum and it doesn't look like this was answered. I have a presentation variable "CalendarDate" for a dashboard prompt that uses the calendar picker. Has anyone found an easy way to use the presentation variable in a report filter?
I want to grab the presentation variable then use this as the criterion for the report filter.
I have tried the below for the report filter but I receive an error. Do I have to cast this value to a Date?
Date.Date <= @{CalendarDate}
Or, do I have to get the variable value and convert it to the date 'YYYY-MM-DD' format to use?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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So here is what I came up with. Probably not the most efficient nor elegant but it works. I am now able to use the calendar picker variable as a date to perform date calculations.
Basically there are three scenarios for the variable value: D/M/YYYY, (DD/M/YYYY or D/MM/YYYY), DD/MM/YYYY. I use char_length function to find the length. When char length is equal to 9 there are two scenarios. If none of the scenarios work, pass the CURRENT_DATE.
code below --------
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WHEN 10 THEN
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How to retain the presentation variable values for Dashboard Prompt

I've a dashboard prompt with date and two other drop down field, with default value as yesterday's date set for date and All Values set for other two drop down list. Presentation Variables are D1, P1 and P2 respectivilly
I'm using GO URL from "Report A" and passing presentation variable to navigate to other report (Report B) that works fine. eg:
'<a href = saw.dll?GO&path=/shared/Reports/ABC/ReportB&Action=Navigate&p0=1&p1=eq&p2="-%20Time"."Next%20Day"&p3=@{d1}>Test</a>'
From Report B I'm using Dashoard URL to go back to Previous Report like:
<div class="XUIPromptEntry minibuttonOn">
Return to Previous Screen</div>
This also works fine.
My problem is that, when users selects different values in the Main dashboard prompt for date and other other two drop down and navigates to other report (Report B), and from Report B, when user returns to previous screen (Main Dashboard), Prompts values gets refreshed to original default values.
Is there any way to retain the values of presentation variable in dashboard Prompt when I return to main dashboard from Report B?
I'd appreciate your help.
Thanks

Change your dashboard url include the column and column value for the date column sample shown below,
[a href=saw.dll?Dashboard&PortalPath=/shared/sample/_portal&page=pagename&Action=Navigate&col1=Dim.Date&val1=@1>Return to Previous Screen[/a>
In my second report Date is the first column so I referenced it's value as @1 in the dashboard URL
note: replace [ with <
Thanks,
Vino

Issue with passing parameters through Java-JSP in a report with cross tab

Can anyone tell me, if there's a bug in Java SDK in passing the parameters to a report (rpt file) that has a cross tab in it ?
I hava report that works perfectly fine
   with ODBC through IDE and also through browser (JSP page)
(ii)    with JDBC in CR 2011 IDE
the rpt file has a cross tab and accpts two parameters.
When I run the JDBC report through JSP the parameters are never considered. The same report works fine when I remove the cross tab and make it a simple report.
I have posted this to CR SDK forum and have not received any reply. This have become a blocker and because of this our delivery has been postponed. We are left with two choices,
   Re-Write the rpt files not to have cross-tabs - This would take significant effort
OR
(ii) Abandon the crystal solution and try out any other java based solutions available.
I have given the code here in this forum posting..
CR 2011 - JDBC Report Issue in passing parameters
TIA
DRG
TIA
DRG

Mr.James,
Thank you for the reply.
As I stated earlier, we have been using the latest service pack (12) when I generated the log file that is uploaded earlier.
To confirm this further, I downloaded the complete eclipse bundle from sdn site and reran the rpt files. No change in the behaviour and the bug is reproducible.
You are right about the parameters, we are using {?@Direction} is: n(1.0)
{?@BDate} is: dt(d(1973-01-01),t(00:00:00.453000000)) as parameters in JSP and we get 146 records when we directly execute the stored procedure. The date and the direction parameter values stored in design time are different. '1965-01-01' and Direction 1.
When we run the JSP page, The parameter that is passed through the JSP page, is displayed correctly on the right top of the report view. But the data that is displayed in cross tab is not corresponding to the date and direction parameter. It corresponds to 1965-01-01 and direction 1 which are saved at design time.
You can test this by modifying the parameter values in the JSP page that I sent earlier. You will see the displayed data will remain same irrespective of the parameter.
Further to note, Before each trial run, I modify the parameters in JSP page, build them and redeploy so that caching does not affect the end result.
This behaviour, we observe on all the reports that have cross-tabs. These reports work perfectly fine when rendered through ODBC-ActiveX viewer and the bug is observable only when ran through Java runtime library. We get this bug on view, export and print functionalities as well.
Additionally we tested the same in
    With CR version 2008 instead of CR 2011.
(ii)   Different browsers ranging from IE 7 through 9 and FF 7.
The complete environment and various softwares that we used for this testing are,
OS      : XP Latest updates as on Oct 2011.
App Server: GlassFish Version 3 with Java version 1.6 and build 21
Database server ; SQL Server 2005. SP 3 - Dev Ed.
JTds JDBC type 4 driver version - 1.2.5 from source forge.
Eclipse : Helios along with crystal libraries directly downloaded from SDN site.
I am uploading the log file that is generated when rendering the rpt for view in IE 8
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Passing Values to Dashboard Prompt

Hi Gurus,
I have a summary Dashboard page with summary report and prompt build on Summary table , and i have a detail dashboard page contains Detail report and prompt same as Summary but these prompts are from Dimension tables and report from fact and Dimension.
The requirement is Once i click some value in Summary dashboard it has to pass the values to Detail dashboard ( Means Passing the values to Dashboard prompt) and show the result in detail.
As i cant use the OBIEE navigation logic to pass the values as prompts columns are not from same table. So i thought to use the GO URL this also i cant use as i am using Pivot table in Summary report. I thought to use Summary prompt in the detail Dashboard and create a dummy reports based on the prompt and resultant value pass to the Detail reports. I am able get the values but i am not getting proper answer. I dont no why .
Is i am doing correct ? i know its not elegant way. If some one give me tip or direction that will be great help.
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If you are attempting to pass a value from one table1.column1 to another table2.column2 where the two do not match then you will need to use a presentation variable to hold the value. You can populate the variable using a hidden dashboard prompt that has the table1.table2 and read the value into a variable. You can then use this variable to filter the table2.column2

Passing parameters for a query throught XML and capturing response in the same

Hi All,
I have defined a RequestParameters object and i am passing paramerts for a query through XML and trying to capture the result in the same and send back to the source. In this case i am send XML from excel.
Below is my XML format.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Insert xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<dataContractValue>
<dsRequest>
<dsRequest>
<SOURCE></SOURCE>
<ACTION>Insert</ACTION>
<RequestParams>
<RequestParams>
<ACC_NO>52451</ACC_NO>
<EMP_CITY>HYD</EMP_CITY>
<EMP_NAME>RAKESH</EMP_NAME>
<EMP_CONTACT>99664</EMP_CONTACT>
<EMP_JOM>NOV</EMP_JOM>
<EMP_SALARY>12345</EMP_SALARY>
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<RequestParams>
<ACC_NO>52452</ACC_NO>
<EMP_CITY>HYD</EMP_CITY>
<EMP_NAME>RAKESH</EMP_NAME>
<EMP_CONTACT>99664</EMP_CONTACT>
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to the response XML.
I have 6 defined in RequestParams
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Is there any way i can avoid this and build response with only the parameters given in the Request ??
Appreciate ur help..Thanks
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Hi Kristin,
My project is, User will be giving the parameters in the excel, and using VBA, the values are captured and an XML is created in the above mentioned format and is send to web service for the Insert/Update.
I created a webservice which reads the values from <datacontract> and it consist of list of <dsRequests> where any number of Insert/Upate commands can be executed, with in which it contains a list of <RequestParams> for multiple insertion/Updation.
//function call
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where OriginalParams is List<dsRequest>
//inside function
command.Parameters.Add()// parameters adding
int
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after the execution,an XML element is added for the response part.and it is looped for all the RequestParams.
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for(inta
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Ex: In my update query i will only send three parameters, but in my response building with ablove code, i am getting all the variables defined as INT in the RequestParameters.
Is there any way i can avoid this and build response with only the parameters given in the Request ??
Appreciate ur help..Thanks
Cronsey.

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As I can make that?
There is some example.
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/thread/66776 [original link is broken]
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Only one Apply button for Dashboard Prompt in obiee

Hi experts,
We have a need wer we need to place prompts at specified places like one at right top then next 3 one below other. But only one Apply button.
Please let me know how to customize OBIEE 11.1.1.5 to achieve this.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
You are using OBIEE 11g ,so constrain the second report should be on the first prompt.I mean,In the second prompt properties we have an option like "based on the other prompt";where you need to give the first prompt column name.like wise third prompt also.
Then you will get only one apply button for 3 prompts.
mar if helpful/correct..
thanks,
prassu

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