Dynamic Visibility within a Webi Report
Web Intelligence is called the “interactive tool” of the BI Platform, so let us be interactive.
Using input controls helps us a lot achieving our target. You can use them to filter your report data, but also to change the layout or change keyfigures/measures in the report. In the folowing steps we will change the layout of our report.
This is our report: that we would like to have interactive. Initially we show the graphs of our data, but we want to show the table as well.
Step 1 – create a new variable, “View”: add the text: “Table Purchase Orders”.
Step 2 – Create a new inut control based on the new variable, “View”.
Step 3 – Customize your list of values of your input control.
Step 4 – “Hide when …” your table/graphs, using a formula like …
– here you can go wild and change a lot, for instance my title and background cell’s will change as wel.
Step 5 – enjoy the view
The “all values” will be my initial screen, the “table purchase orders”, will trigger my table in the report.
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William
Thanks, great to be part of it!
Hi Koen Hesters,
I am following your Post always
I have a requirement to hide and show the report block based on the Element Link unfortunately i promised to the user its achievable.
I have 4 Table Block.
Table 1 : Master table 1
Table 2: Child Table of Master table 1
Table 3: Master table 2
Table 4: Child Table of Master table 3
Requirements
When the user Click Table1 then Table 2 should enable.
When the user Click Table 3 then Table 2 Should Hide and Table 4 should enable .
The above one I achieved it based on the below logic. I have written this logic in Table properties (Hide when the formula is true)
Table 2 = If ((Pos(ReportFilterSummary();"Table 4") = 0) ;"Hide" ; "Show") ="Show"
Table 4 = If ((Pos(ReportFilterSummary();"Table 4") = 0) ;"Hide" ; "Show") ="Hide"
Now if the user Click Back to Table 1 then Table 2 should bring back and Table 4 should hide. But I couldn't able to achieve this
Can you please help me.
Hi,
flattery works, the element linking nonetheless. If you want it to work when clicking only once, meaning click Table 1 show tale 2 click table 3 show table 4 and hide Table 2 it is doable by adding an OR in your hide-formula, but it stops here, when they click again no changes will/can be captured because there is no reset-formula available unless they reset the element link manually.
That was the reason to build it via the input control
grtz
Koen
Thanks you for your quick response. i will discuss with my user on this