Twenty-five years ago on July 13, 1994 I went to see the legendary band, The Eagles, play at the old Tiger Stadium in Detroit. The Tour was called the Hell Freezes Over Tour, since the band had broken up many years before they said they would only ever play together ...
Read More »Using an Input Control to Sort in Web Intelligence
In Design mode of Web Intelligence, you can change the sort order of columns in a block. However, this option is not available in Reading mode. We can accomplish some basic sorting tasks using an input control and the steps below will detail how this is done. We’ll start off ...
Read More »Tech Tip: Controlling Break Dimension Using Input Control
In this tech tip, you will learn how to dynamically switch a break dimension using an input control. We will start with a cross table that was created in the Alternate Break Value Highlighting tech tip, but you can substitute any 2 dimensions you would like to work with. This ...
Read More »Tech Tip: Alternate Break Value Highlighting
While the built in alternate row shading is nice to shade every other row or a set a pattern of rows, what if you wanted to shade rows based on a variable number of rows in a break? We can accomplish this by using a variable and a conditional formatting ...
Read More »Five Cool Techniques to Keep up Your Sleeve to Design Visually Appealing and Dynamic Webi Reports
First: To capture the value selected in Input Control/ Element Link in a cell Goal: Input Control and Element Linking are very frequently used WebI features to create highly interactive WebI reports or dashboards. The goal is to display the user selected option from the radio button/drop down/list box or ...
Read More »BusinessObjects Users Advancing Toward What Will Be
The BusinessObjects community gathering at IBIS 2019 was totally amazing and, once again, walked away with the “Best IBIS Ever” accolade. Over 50 attendees pre-registered for IBIS 2020 during the conference itself! I experienced so many eye-opening presentations, inspiring sessions and great conversations that I was not sure where to ...
Read More »What Does Flying Look Like?
I have always been fascinated by butterflies. I used to catch them as a kid with my little butterfly net and put them in jars where I could watch them. I quickly noticed they would not open their wings very much and could not fly so I would let them ...
Read More »Tech Tip: Merging on Variables in Web Intelligence
One of the often overlooked additions given to us in the 4.2 SP3 release was the ability to merge data on variables, not just dimensions. For many years we have lived with these restrictions in Web Intelligence: 1.) You could only merge on dimensions, not on variables. 2.) The data ...
Read More »BusinessObjects Coexistence – The Way to Build a World Cup Dream Team
So I am at the British Airways Executive lounge at London Heathrow waiting for my flight and watching England play Sweden in the World Cup quarter finals. England are leading 1-0 going into the second half and then Dele Alli scores a second goal for England. I jump out of ...
Read More »Web Intelligence: The Future’s So Bright, You Better Wear Shades!
I’m passionate about Ancient Egypt and I jump at any opportunity to indulge in discussing it, reading about it, visiting sites and museums everywhere I go. When I occasionally meet a fellow “Egyptophile” I am in my element and we can talk all day. I am also passionate about Business ...
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