OBIEE PROJECT INACCESSIBLE COLUMN

Kumar gave a great alternative for the choose statement by using the PROJECT_INACCESSIBLE_COLUMN_AS_NULL parameter

http://obieeblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/obiee-data-security-column-level-security/

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OBIEE CHOOSE statement

Let's assumme that one group is allowed to see the content of a column and a other group isn't. If you simple only try todo use "permissions" the whole report will crash for the group which can't see the column.
You can workaround this crash with the "CHOOSE" statement. From the Oracle documentation:

First let's make a "No Access" column:

Drag the column somewhere in you presenmtation layer, be sure that the persmission is set to everyone. In your report edit the column which this group isn't allowed to see:

Now run the report again for the "No Access" group :

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