Archive for the ‘OBIEE’ Category

Creating an All Other Values Row in Oracle BI

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 by James Walsh

In a recent training session for Oracle 10g, requests were used to present information for the “Top N” most expensive projects. During the session a delegate asked whether it was possible to present a row in the table that shows the value of all the other projects. The change would result in information being presented as shown in the table below, with the row highlighted in yellow being a summary of all the other records not in the Top N:

Fiscal Year Project Number Project Name Cost
2007 ATZ Services ATZ Services
£ 55,018
2007 PC201 Percent Complete – Operations 26,359
2007 FP201 Fixed Price – Operations 19,541
2007 CS419 Redwood City 419 Construction 18,000
2007 Bldg Renovation Bldg Renovation 13,314
2007 AD201 Administrative 11,340
2007 100123 New Store 100123 8,153
2007 B200 Building 200 Construction 4,858
2007 Corp Srvcs Corporate Services 4,793
2007 SS2349 Redwood City Selection 1,200
2007 All Other Projects All Other Projects ######
Total Cost 162,574

Two methods to achieve the result will be described in this article, these methods can also be used with Oracle BI 11g. The first method is slightly easier to implement as all the work is done in a single request. However this method is not ideal for a large volume of rows that is to be ranked.

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Creating a Clear Prompts button

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 by James Walsh

During a training session I demonstrated a technique used to present users with a Clear Prompts button. This article will provide the information to replicate the same feature in your dashboard development.

This example uses a dashboard prompt with some Oracle BI Applications sample data. The dashboard prompt has been setup to display the Fiscal Year with a default value of 2012 and Operating Unit Organization Name of Vision Operations.

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Rank function syntax in OBIEE

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 by Andy Coates

A question came up recently during an OBIEE 10g training course we were running which merits a note on the blog. As part of the training, a request was built that displayed the TopN most expensive projects within an organisation for a specified year. The question posed by a delegate was “how do I display the TopN most expensive projects across a range of years? For example, the top 3 most expensive projects on a year-by-year basis.
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QlikView versus BI Applications and OBIEE

Friday, March 9th, 2012 by Andy Coates

Having worked with Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) products for several years, some colleagues and I recently spent some time evaluating a third party offering called “QlikView”. Whilst our main interest at Projected has always been Oracle’s BI Applications for E-Business Suite, the buzz being generated around QlikView intrigued us. The Oracle BI Applications provide pre-packaged analytics reporting built on OBIEE, so we were keen to see if QlikView was a suitable competitor to BI Applications for our E-Business Suite customers.

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