Hi all,
Intention of this post is to explain the difference between “When value becomes” & “When value changes” in Refresh option in the Dashboard Designer. I have used the Query refresh button here to explain the differences.
Rather than explaining with the dummy information, I decided to go with the real-time information. This dashboard is used to view the Collection done by Finance department by Segment, Plant, Month & Date.
I have created a dashboard, which is displaying four charts
- Pie Chart – Segment info in percentage
- Combination Chart 1 – plant wise info
- Combination Chart 2 – month wise info
- Line Chart – day wise info
Prompts applied to chart:
- Pie Chart – Month(Ranges From – to)
- Combination Chart 1– Month(Ranges) & Segment(Pie chart)
- Combination Chart 2 – Month(Ranges), Segment(Pie chart) & Plant(Combination Chart 1)
- Line Chart – Segment(Pie chart), Plant(Combination Chart 1) & Month (Combination Chart 2)
Pie Chart – Prompt
Combination Chart 1– Prompt
Combination Chart 2– Prompt
Line Chart – Prompt
All four charts are having different BW queries created in query browser to get the data into pieces of information. Generally the triggering option for the reports will be “When the value changes” i.e., when a value changed for any query using any selector automatically the data gets refreshed. But here the month is the major prompt which is having the ranges so customers need to hold the trigger until they confirm the ranges. So I have used the push button as “Submit” to confirm the changes. Once the “Submit” button is clicked the queries get triggered. Except pie chart all other three are having other prompts which are triggered when the user clicks any series values basically driven by insertion tab in the properties.
I have used four refresh button to refresh all four charts, Except the first refresh button (Pie chart) all other refresh button trigger dynamically by using “When value changes”. Let us see how the chart are get triggered now.
Pie chart (Query Refresh Button 1)
Note: I have used the option “Refresh after Components are loaded”, so here the dashboard invokes quickly and looks for the data.
Combination chart 1(Query Refresh Button 2)
Combination chart 2(Query Refresh Button 3)
Line Chart (Query Refresh Button 4)
Make sure to remove all “Refresh before components are loaded” option from the queries.
Hope this document help to understand the difference in-depth.
Hi Suman,
The drill down functionality is good it is easy with less Excel functions and I hope the performance will be good. To drill down 3-4 levels I used to use many excel formulas but there are very few here(no lookups used) and I would use this approach in future.
Thanks&Regards
Krishna
Hi Krishna,
Thanks for your feedback.
Always my approach is to eliminate as much as excel formula in the development. So that your dashboard performance will be good.
Suman T
Hi Suman,
In the prompts applied in the charts(line and combination) you have not selected any values for the prompt. Normally if we don’t pass any values to the prompts then we get blank data. How could you get the data.
Thanks&Regards,
Krishna
Hi Hari,
By default i have selected the first values bar in the combination chart, you can see that in the subsequent chart title, i am not leaving the prompts empty even at the time of invoking.
Off-course as you said it cannot empty, i have made the prompts as mandatory by removing the optional prompts.
SumanT
Hi,
Thanks Suman for the reply, could you send a Sample xlf file of this that would be great.
Thanks&Regards,
Krishna
Send me a test mail for your mail id, i will reply back to that attaching the xlf. you can get my mail id from my profile page.
Hi Suman,
I could not get find your mail id in the profile page, could you please update there or you can get my mail id in my profile page and send the file that would be great.
Thanks for your help,
Krishna
Even i cannot see your id.
Hi Suman,
Please check now it is visible.
Thanks&Regards,
Krishna
Hi suman,
can you please pass this Xlf for reference, my id is y22m7p91@yahoo.co.in
Thanks in advance,
Yash
Hello Suman,
This is great . Can you please mail me your xlf for the reference…. I would like to use this approach.. my mail id is “balakrish258@gmail.com”
Regards,
Bala Krish
Thanks sent to your id.
Hi Suman,
Many thanks for your simple explanation. I’m new to Dashboards and I have a similar requirement would you be kind enough to send me the xlf files too please to dperika@gmail.com
Thanks a million
Dev
Hi Suman,
I have a requirement as follows
1. Default region assigned for each user and a table 1has details.
2. Currently dashboards designed to refresh components before load
3. There are 15 queries which has region filter is mapped to single cell and the cell is hardcoded with default value.
4. Drop down box for region is created and the target data is mapped to same cell above and hence when user selects some region and clicks refresh everything will be refreshed
Now I need the default region to come from the table 1 when initial loading to happen.
I tried by making this query as refresh before components to load and rest all queries refresh when value changes. However I am not able to meet the requirement.
Appreciate if you have any thoughts
Thanks
Hi Suman,
Any thoughts on above?
Suman,
Many thaks for providing the file
ta
Hi Suman,
Good work, and information is helpful.
Thank you so much for the information.
Thanks Karthik 🙂
Good work …Thanks for sharing.
Hi Suman
Good work …
Please Share Me the File
Advance Thanks
Ravi Kumar A
Hi Suman,
Nice and informative post.
Can you please send me your xlf to my mail id b124847@gmail.com
Regards,
Ravish
Hi Suman,
Very informative and different approach for Drill down.
I just started working on BO Dashboards and I am having similar drill down requirement from our client. Can you please send me the .XFL file to arjunsai09@gmail.com. Sorry I couldn’t find your email in your profile.
Thank you for the knowledge sharing.
-Arjun.