Sunday, February 28, 2010

OBIEE: Single/Detail Record View

Recently, I've been searching for a Single Row/Detail type report in Answers. Sadly, there isn't one so named.

Here's what I could find in Answers:

report types

Nothing jumps out at me, so, Twitter to the rescue again



Within minutes...I had an answer from Mr. Christian Berg. What was that answer? The Narrative View.

Here's the screen for the Narrative View:

narrative view screen

According to Mr. Berg, you reference the columns using the @1 (@2, @3, etc) syntax, the number representing the column number. So I tried that

narrative view with stuff

Run it...

not what I want

That's not what I want...

OK, so let's see if I can add some HTML to it. First I check the Contains HTML Markup box and then I enter in the following in the Narrative Text Area:
@1<br>

@2<br>
@3<br>
@4<br>
@5<br>
@6<br>
@7<br>
@8<br>
@9<br>
Here's what it looks like:

a better narrative look

Better, but not exactly what I want. Now that I know I can use HTML though, it should be very easy.

perfect!

Voila!

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