Recently, one of the developers asked me: “Michael, how do you go about saving a view when one of the prompts on the page contains a variable that populates the initial value (such as date)?” I explained that I hadn’t really given it much thought. I continued on with my work for the day, not [...]
Any OBIEE report developer will tell you that in order to get the most out of the tool, you must know and love working with the various forms of variables available to us. Today, we’re going to talk about a great use for the Presentation Variable that’s available to a user in Answers when editing [...]
I’ve seen this issue brought up a number of times and often I see developers struggling with how to create a dashboard page that will load all their prompts, allow users to select the prompts and then load the report. I’ve used a few methods in the past to do this, but all of them [...]