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The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11

By : Edward Cody
Book Image

The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11

By: Edward Cody

Overview of this book

Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting is one of the many products in the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management software suite, an industry-leading business intelligence software package. The primary focus of the Interactive Reporting product is to provide strong relational querying and data analysis capabilities. It also provides the capability to disseminate information throughout an enterprise. There is a very steep learning curve for most users of this tool.This book examines the power of the Interactive Reporting Web Client software, focusing on the key features of each section of the product. The author's experience in developing and supporting Interactive Reporting users is very well documented in this book. The goal is to educate you on every useful feature of the product, enabling you to gather information from various sources and process it to produce meaningful results that help you to spot problems and analyze trends necessary for business decisions.The book starts with a quick introduction to the product interface and the EPM Workspace, with explanation of importing and provisioning. It then takes you through each section from building a query and data model to building graphical displays of the data in a logical sequence. The report sections and interactive dashboards are also discussed at length. The book also covers advanced features of the product and provides you with the information necessary to build the foundation for creating complex queries and computations using the product.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Working with controls


Controls provide the ability to drive a set of operations inside the document through scripting. This book has focused on setting objects and parameters using the Interactive Reporting menus and screens, but Interactive Reporting also provides the ability to script many of the operations inside the document.

This section will provide an overview of how to access, build, and execute some of the simple tool behaviors. The examples will focus on building controls on the dashboard to assist with filtering the presentation sections of the document using Interactive Reporting programming methods.

Control types

There are ten different control types, with eight focused on performing operations on a dashboard and two (Embedded Browser and Hyperlink) focused on external content. The objects can be visible or hidden and can be enabled or disabled on the dashboard. The following is a breakdown of each type of control:

  • The Command Button is a button on a dashboard that is used to...