Variable in Report Title?

Hi I'm fairly new to ORACLE BI and want to output the Date in the Filename of the reports when the users run them. So when they download the report as XLS PDF etc is shows "filename DD-MM-YY".
Is this possible?
Many Thanks
Ed

ahh, now I see what you're talking. Here's the issue you're running into. The download report doesn't use the title as the download file name. Instead, it uses the physical name of the report in OBIEE. So even if you add the system date to the title of the report, it won't affect the download name. It just happens that both the download name and the title default to the name of the Answer Request.
So if you really wanted someone to download it with a date already in the file name, you have two options:
1) Physically rename the Answer Request periodically to indicate the last time it was refreshed. The issue here is that links to this Request will get outdated fast. And it's not the prettiest solution
2) You'd have to go into the Javascript behind OBIEE and edit how it generates the download file. I checked out the web page source code for the download link and here's where you'd want to start digging: onclick="return NQWPopupMenu(event,'idDownloadLinksMenud:dashboard~p:ngm14ept52q4tcnt~r:dr2ss84kj32lkjoi')"
That NQWPopupMenu function is what generates the pop up window with the different file outputs. Once you dig through there, it will eventually lead you through the script that does the excel outputting. Once you find the piece of code that creates the output file, it should be as simple as appending a sysdate to the file name.
Good luck!
-Joe

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