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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

Understanding the Dashboard layout


The Dashboard layout provides the ability to add objects from the report similar to a Report section, where objects can be dragged-and-dropped and resized on the interface. Objects can be added to any area of the dashboard, providing the ability to create a custom layout of objects.

Editing the dashboard

A new dashboard by default is set with the Design Mode active, which turns the dashboard from an active to a passive state so that the dashboard can be modified. When the dashboard is in design mode, the Elements window displays the objects that can be added to the section, the Dashboard controls display the control name, and all objects on the dashboard can be edited and rearranged. When the Design Mode setting is toggled off, the Dashboard objects become active, the Elements window is blank, and the objects on the dashboard display the desired content. Design Mode can be toggled on and off using one of the following three methods:

Report menu method

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