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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

Sorting


Sorting data in the Results and Table section is a very common and flexible operation allowing quick add, modify, and remove Sort conditions to the section without needing to rerun the query to refresh the dataset. The Sort line of the section is very similar to the Sort line of the Query section. Items are added to the Sort line of the Results and Table section using one of three methods:

Right-click method

Drag-and-drop method

Double-click method

Highlight the column of data or column name

Highlight the column of data or column name

Double-click the column header name

Right-click and select either the Sort Ascending or Sort Descending menu item.

Drag-and-drop the column of data into the Sort line.

 

Each of the methods clear out the existing sort option except the drag-and-drop method, which adds the column to the Sort line without clearing the other sorts created. The column order in the Sort line identifies the sort order of the columns driving the sorting of the dataset...