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Oracle Business Intelligence 11g R1 Cookbook

By : Cuneyt Yilmaz
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Oracle Business Intelligence 11g R1 Cookbook

By: Cuneyt Yilmaz

Overview of this book

<p>Extracting meaningful and valuable business information from transactional databases is crucial for any organization. OBIEE 11g is a reporting tool that satisfies all the business requirements regarding complex reporting. It consists of a powerful back-end engine with a repository and a highly customizable graphical web interface.</p> <p>Oracle Business Intelligence 11g R1 Cookbook provides all the key concepts of the product including the architecture of the BI Server. This practical guide shows each and every step of creating analytical reports starting from building a well-designed repository. You will learn how to create analytical reports that will support different business perspectives. <br /><br />This practical guide covers how to implement OBIEE 11g suite in order to enable BI developers to create sophisticated web based reports. All of tasks will be covered step by step in detail. <br /><br />You will explore the architecture of the Oracle Business Intelligence Server and learn how to build the repository (RPD). We will also discuss how to implement the business rules in the repository with real-life scenarios.</p> <p>Best practices of a successful BI implementation are esssential for any BI developer so they are also covered in depth.If you are planning to implement OBIEE 11g suite, this step-by-step guide is a must have resource.All the key tasks are defined in detail and supported with diagrams and screenshots.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence 11g R1 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Formatting the table view


Business users will need to focus on crucial data in the analysis, so displaying formatted data is very important. One analysis may consist of hundreds of rows but users should be able to focus only on important ones from the point of business view. In this section, we're going to enable conditional formatting in the analysis. We'll use these columns in the sample analysis:

  • The Region attribute column

  • The State attribute column

  • The Dollars measure column

We are going to enable conditional formatting on the Dollars column. We'll also change the sort order of the result set.

How to do it...

  1. We're going to create a sample analysis with the mentioned columns. Then we'll need to open the Column Properties of the Dollars column. We'll click on the Add Condition button in the Conditional Format tab. All available columns will be displayed. The condition of the Dollars column values may be dependent on another column's value. But we're going to use the Dollars column's values...