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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

Creating and modifying expressions


Expressions are the code definitions of items on the report, including fields, Table facts, Table headings, and Report group elements. Expressions provide the flexibility to leverage custom logic to edit the behavior of the columns and data items in the document.

Expressions are displayed in the Expression window. The Expression window is a thin window with a Data Function drop-down and a text area for displaying and modifying the expression. The Expression window is shown by default at the top of the main windows and is toggled on and off by clicking the Expression button in the Section Title Bar. When expressions are edited, a red x and green checkmark icon appear between the Data Function and textbox in the window. Selecting the green checkbox will save the expression changes and selecting the red checkbox will undo the expression modifications.

Expressions may contain text, predefined functions, and data elements from Tables and Results throughout the...