Several subject areas

Hello!
Interested in this question:
is there a way in Oracle BI Answers 10 to make a report based on several subject areas?
Thanks.

Yes
This will help you
[http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/multiple_subject_area]
Happy Reporting
pallis

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Mtn_State wrote:
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This is a pressing issue i am facing at the moment. I am on OBIEE 11g latest version.
This is the scenario at hand.
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Let me try to describe the model as best as possible.
I am trying to calculate the profitability of each customer for two banks. These banks have deposits, loans, leases, etc. Each customer is identified by a global id. The global ID is a dimension table. Then there is a the time Dimension.
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Bank A has it's own deposits and Bank B does too. A customer can/cannot have accounts in Bank A/Bank B/or Both Bank A and B. Similarly a customer can have a lease in either or both of the banks and this continues for other products.
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Similarly bank B > deposits has the same look and feel. Only thing is i connected the fact of bank b - deposits to the same Time and Global Customer table. So now there is a circular join. And this join gets really complicated when i add the fact tables of other categories such as leasing, pawning, etc. Since my goal is to calculate the total of profitability from each of these categories (deposits + loans + pawning +...), i tried to write a formula but i do get the error that "no fact exists"
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Yes, i can see datatype and number of columns is same in both queries.
i have challanges to copy message but Error message seems to general. Error says (near to FROM) and I checked there are three FROM in query and all seems to be ok
Query is something like as below
select SA1.col1 saw_0,
SA1.col2 saw_1,
SA2.col1 saw_2,
SA2.col2 saw_3,
FROM
(select col1 saw_0, col2 saw_1 from "subject area1") SA1
FULL OUTER JOIN
(select col1 saw_0, col2 saw_1 from "subject area2") SA2
ON SA1.col1 = SA2.col1
I can't see any issue in the query...please comment.

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Request2 -          product               Forecast_Revenue     Actual Revenue
Col expression      "product.name"    0                             "Fact.ACTUAL_Revenue"
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2. Use the advance tab in the report and write a custom SQL to join these two subject area.
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Regards
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Thanks

Yes, i can see datatype and number of columns is same in both queries.
i have challanges to copy message but Error message seems to general. Error says (near to FROM) and I checked there are three FROM in query and all seems to be ok
Query is something like as below
select SA1.col1 saw_0,
SA1.col2 saw_1,
SA2.col1 saw_2,
SA2.col2 saw_3,
FROM
(select col1 saw_0, col2 saw_1 from "subject area1") SA1
FULL OUTER JOIN
(select col1 saw_0, col2 saw_1 from "subject area2") SA2
ON SA1.col1 = SA2.col1
I can't see any issue in the query...please comment.

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