Value based reports

Hi friends,
I have column which contains 3 values , ex :Column A contains values 1,2,3.
and i have 3 reports.like Rep1,Rep2,and Rep3.
If i click on value 1 , it should go to Rep1........
How can i give?
Thanks....

Chaitanya wrote:
Hi friends,
I have column which contains 3 values , ex :Column A contains values 1,2,3.
and i have 3 reports.like Rep1,Rep2,and Rep3.
If i click on value 1 , it should go to Rep1........
How can i give?
Thanks....Not sure if 11G lets you do this out of the box but in 10G There is two approaches (should work in 11G) :
1) Create a case statement on the values and construct a GOURL path to the target reports, format the column as HTML and the values will be presented as a hyperlink.
2) Put the three target reports in a seperate sections on a dashboard page , create a dashboard prompt to select which report you want , follow this guide to dynamically show the report section based on the value in the dashboard prompt and pass the correct value to the prompt using GOURL : http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2010/07/obiee-using-prompt-as-report-selector.html
Neither approaches are that elegant, cant you just give all three choices to the end user via nav links and let them choose which one they want to navigate to? Much easier, out of the box and easier to maintain.

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>
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A screen shot of the report:
The value in the bottom box should be: 37,080,118.75
I have tried:
=IIF(ReportItems!Textbox293.Value > ReportItems!Textbox294.Value, ReportItems!Textbox293.Value * ReportItems!Textbox289.Value, ReportItems!Textbox294.Value * ReportItems!Textbox289.Value) and I get a scope error.
I have also tried
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Hello,
In your case, we can try to use Report Variables to resolve the issue. In SSRS, when we have a complex calculation we can create a variable in the report. Variable can be used more than once in a report. Please refer to the following steps:
Open Report Properties dialog box.
Click Variables in the left pane. Then, add specific variable.
(Note: Suppose we have create two variables: textbox293, textbox294)
After that, we can use following expression to calculate the effect:
=IIF(Variables! textbox293.Value > Variables! textbox294.Value,
Variables! textbox293.Value * ReportItems!Textbox289.Value,
Variables! textbox294.Value * ReportItems!Textbox289.Value)
Reference:
Report and Group Variables Collections References
If the issue is persist, please feel free to let me know.
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Alisa Tang
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Hi Tom,
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Edited by: hasan_al_mamun on Jan 19, 2011 11:20 AM
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Hi,
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- to workaround it I tried: "MY_BMM"."Org Str"."Org Str Key" = VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION."LEAFS_LIST_AND_ALL_ANCESTORS") -> manager can see all aggregates at country level because he have access to country, and OLAP just use country level aggregate
- IsDescendant("MY_BMM"."Org Str" , VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION."OFFICE_ID")) will work only for single office as we can not use row wise variables here
One solution I can imagine is to create additional level based dimension that have only 2 levels: "All"->"Org Str Leaf". Then apply filter on this "artifitial" dimension. It is not perfect solution to duplicate dimensions only for security purposes... that's why I ask you for advice if you know better way?
Regards,
mudi

Here is an example, how to set security in OBIEE 11.1.1.5 (or future versions) against Oracle OLAP dimensions.
*(1). Create the Oracle OLAP Hierarchy Descendant View against Value-based hierarchy*
These views return a row for each ancestor-descendent relationship in the hierarchy. As you can see how easy it is.
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW DEPT_DESCENDANTS
AS
SELECT 'DEPT' "DIMENSION", 'DEPTHIER' "HIER", ancestor, descendant
FROM TABLE(OLAP_TABLE('BAWOLAP.BNSOLAP DURATION QUERY', null, 'LIMIT DEPT_HIERLIST TO 'DEPTHIER''',
'DMNS DESCENDANT AS VARCHAR2(60) FROM DEPT
DMNS GID_VAL AS NUMBER FROM ___AW_GID_DIMENSION
MSR ANCESTOR AS VARCHAR2(60) FROM DEPT_FAMILYRELVAL'
where ancestor is not null
*(2). Create the User ACL Tables and Populate with Data*
Create an Access Control list test table by user and Dept. Later this will be populated with production data.
create table user_dept_acls
username varchar2(30),
dept varchar2(60)
insert into user_dept_acls(username, dept) values ('user1', 'GWM');
insert into user_dept_acls(username, dept) values ('user1', 'GT');
insert into user_dept_acls(username, dept) values ('user1', 'SC');
insert into user_dept_acls(username, dept) values ('user2', 'GWM');
insert into user_dept_acls(username, dept) values ('user2', 'GT');
insert into user_dept_acls(username, dept) values ('user3', 'SC');
commit;
*(3). Create an Init Block Connection Pool*
Oracle BI EE requires a separate Connect Pool for Init blocks. It does not allow the default query connection pool to be reused for init blocks. So, we need to create a new init block.
*(4). Create the ACL Session Variables*
These session variables hold the list of all members that the user may access.
Example Session Variable: DEPT_ACL
Init Block: "Init DEPT_ACL"
SQL:
select 'DEPT_ACL', account from user_DEPT_acls where username = ':USER'
union all
select 'DEPT_ACL', descendant
from DEPT_descendants
where ancestor in (select account from user_DEPT_acls where username = ':USER')
union all
select 'DEPT_ACL', ancestor
from DEPT_descendants
where descendant in (select account from user_DEPT_acls where username = ':USER')
The first query block of the init block SQL just selects the members explicitly entered into the ACL table. The second block selects all the descendants of those members from the descendants view. The third block selects all the ancestors to ensure that the user has access to all the members in the drill path starting from the root member.
Make sure that row-wise initialization is checked in the Variable Target section of the init block.
*(5). Add the Data Filters*
In our test case we assigned the data filters to the BIAuthor role, but the filters should be added to whatever role makes the most sense.
Data filter on "BNSGL"."Department":
"BNSGL"."Department"."Dept" = VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION."DEPT_ACL")
*(6). Log in as a Normal User and Query the Hierarchy*
The user can only see to the members to which they are granted access in the ACL table plus all ancestors and descendants of those members.
Drill down to the bottom of the hierarchy.
*(7). Look at the Query Log*
In the nqquery.log we see that the session variable is expanded into an IN list in the physical SQL query. The BI Server breaks the IN list into two IN lists to avoid the Oracle SQL limit of 1,000 items per IN list.
Edited by: Nasar Ali-Khan on Jul 2, 2012 8:14 AM

Change Column Value based on Characteristic in Rows

I am not sure it is possible.
We have product prices at different levels of customer hierarchy.
Channel > Division > Region > Market
One Region can have multiple Markets. Each market can have different Rates. But the Region will have a different Rate which many not be the average rate of all market (assigned as part of master data)
I have a column for Product Price. So when a Report is run at Market Level it should use Market Rate. If Market is Removed and Region is dragged into the report it should use Region Rate for Product Price.
Product Price is Restricted by Rate Type value to determine which Rate is used.
Is there a way to dynamically determine the define the column value based on the characteristic value in the ROWS.
Thanks

Hi,
For every CHAR like Market/Region there will be some key. For example Maket1 = 11 and Market2 = 22. If that key is a number then you may create replacement path variable on that and convert the same in numbers then you may create various CKF (for various rate type) and put "If" condtion and check for those replacement path CKF and use the apprpriate one.
You need to write some tricky formula at CKF levels. This is one of the way to achieve that.
I hope it will help.
Thanks,
S

Prompt Default Value based in drilled result

I am navigating(drill using action link) from an analysis to a dashboard where I have a prompt for currency. I want this to be initialized to a dynamic default value based on the column values.
Master Analysis
Country
valid currency
Drill
India
C1
Link1
India
C2
Link2
China
C4
Link3
India
C3
Link4
China
C5
Link5
Child Dashboard Prompt after clicking Drill (if i click any link against india)
Header 1
Header 2
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Bla bla
Child Dashboard Prompt after clicking Drill (if i click any link against China)
Header 1
Header 2
Currency
C4
Bla bla
Is there any way to achieve this in OBIEE 11g?

Hi,
If you are using the same presentation column (same TableName.ColumnName) in your analysis and in the prompt, then the values would be passed when you click on the link. If thats not the case, you can have a look at the below post:
Navigate from report to dashboard and pass values between different column
Thanks
Hyder

Level Based vs. Value Based hier: advantages, disadvantages and limitations

Could someone give an overview about the advantages, disadvantages and limitations when comparing OLAP Level to Value based hierarchies?
Thanks,
Marcio

OLAP can handle both types of hierarchies. No performance advantage using one over the other (while loading cube or querying).
If you are "pushing" dimensional-security inside OLAP, in that case also it does not matter.
Cube-based MVs (with query-rewrite) can only be created if the hierarchies are level-based. Are you going to need that?
Generally there are other "non-olap" factors:
(#1). Which reporting tool will be used. Does it provide better reporting capabilities if the source is parent-child or level-based?
(#2). Are there any reporting requirements that will need "level" information when selecting data.
(#3). Are there are any security requirements that will be handled in "reporting-layer" which will need level-based information.
Although in case of (#1) and (#2), you can "expose" an olap's parent-child hierarchy as "level-based" hierarchy to the reporting tool using internal GID (grouping-id) information.
OBIEE 11.1.1.5 (and future versions) works well with OLAP metadata, and with any type of hierarchy in olap.
For other reporting tools, you have to see what features are available.
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