Wednesday, April 1, 2009

OBIEE Between prompt using the calendar control

Sometimes you need a between prompt on a date but the fields but you can't use the normal is between because of the complex filter. Here is a possible workaround. In the repository create a dummy table called Dates with two columns Date1 and Date2 based on the current date.

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Next create a prompt and put the result in two presentation variables:image

Next create the complex filter:

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Till Next Time

10 comments:

eejimkos said...

hi....
how about choose two periods of time for a specific measure value using calendar???

Goran Ocko said...
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Goran Ocko said...

Hi John.

The first part of the filter condition (before OR, between part) can be also fixed with two dummy date dashboard prompts:

1. cast('01.01.2009' as date)
and
2. cast('01.02.2009' as date)

Both are calendar and they are filling presentation variables so u need to use convert this filter to SQL for Calendar Date column to write manually between condition.

For example:

Caledar Date between '@{p_date_from}{some default value}' and '@{p_date_to}{some default value}'

Regards,
Goran

http://108obiee.blogspot.com/

John Minkjan said...

Hi Goran,

Your right, I like doing it in the repository to avoid problems with casting conventions on the server. Both work.

regards

Sam said...

Do you know of a way to default the Start Date Calendar prompt to be say, 3 months before the current date? And default the End Date Calendar prompt to the current date?

Thank you very much

John Minkjan said...

@Sam,

Set the default to SQL:

SELECT CASE WHEN 1=0 then "D0 Time"."T00 Calendar Date" else TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_MONTH, -3,CURRENT_DATE) end FROM "Sample Sales"

Anonymous said...

Hi, good post.
If I want the First Day of the Current Month and the Last Day of the Current Month?
For example: I'm on 03/11/2010, so I want it shows 01/11/2010 and 30/11/2010. Thank you very much

Anonymous said...

I got it and I want to share it with you:
First Day:
SELECT CASE WHEN 1=0 then Time."Start date" else TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_DAY, DAYOFMONTH(CURRENT_DATE)* -(1) + 1, CURRENT_DATE) end FROM WEB_REPOSITORY

Last Day:
SELECT CASE WHEN 1=0 then Time."End Date" else TIMESTAMPADD( SQL_TSI_DAY , -(1), TIMESTAMPADD( SQL_TSI_MONTH , 1, TIMESTAMPADD( SQL_TSI_DAY , DAYOFMONTH( CURRENT_DATE) * -(1) + 1, CURRENT_DATE))) end FROM WEB_REPOSITORY

John Minkjan said...

Thanks for sharing

regards

John

Rupesh said...

Hi Gurus,

I have created one logical column and casted as an integer

CAST ( EXTRACT( HOUR FROM DW.TABLE2.COL2) AS INTEGER )

and attached along with date in page prompt level with greter than condition
when i selected 10 then it is showing data related to 10 AM only and not showing time after 10 AM and PM as well
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2127783
it is really really urgent

thanks