Request chaning/flow in OBIEE Answers?

In OBIEE Answers, is it possible to save the value of a request and reuse this value for further
calculations?
In other words, I want to use the results of request(s) as the data source for another request.
The use case is like this:
1. Use OBIEE Answers to get the value of a metric. There are multiple such metrics. Create one request per metric and save all such requests.
2. Use the requests saved in step 1 to derive a higher layer of metrics. Save these requests.
3. Use the requests saved in step 2 to derive a higher layer of metrics. Save these requests.
And so on.
Then I want to show these metrics on the dashboard with drill down navigation.
Appreciate your help.
Thank you.

Hi all,
Thanks for the reply.
But this doesn't seem to solve the problem.
Let me put it in other words:
Result-1:
Metric_A X <-- single row resulting from a request in OBIEE Answers
Result-2:
Metric_B Y <-- again single row resulting from a request in OBIEE Answers
Result-3 (to be derived from above two results)
Metric_C a*X + b*Y
where a, b are constants.
and so on...
Edited by: user2363628 on Jun 10, 2010 2:18 AM

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