7 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Building Analytical Reports with OracleBI Discoverer Plus OLAP

7-2 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Objectives After completing this lesson, you should be able to do the following: Describe the components of OracleBI Discoverer Create worksheets that contain crosstabs and graphs of OLAP data Use Discoverer Plus features to analyze OLAP data Describe similarities between Discoverer Plus OLAP and OracleBI Spreadsheet Add-In

7-3 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. OracleBI Discoverer Components OracleBI Discoverer Viewer Relational/OLAP OracleBI Discoverer Plus Relational OracleBI Discoverer Portlet Provider OracleBI Discoverer Plus OLAP

7-4 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. OracleBI Discoverer Plus OLAP Create workbooks of OLAP reports

7-5 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Distributing OLAP Analytics View OLAP workbooks in pure HTML Discoverer OLAP workbook Publish OLAP portlets

7-6 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connecting to Discoverer Plus OLAP Connection Manager (officially supported method) Discoverer Plus OLAP applet (classroom setup only)

7-7 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Creating a Workbook and Worksheet 1 2

7-8 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Selecting Measures in the Wizard

7-9 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Specifying a Report Layout in the Wizard You can: Swap items Move items

7-10 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Specifying Dimension Member Selections in the Wizard Use a list of members. Use a condition. Use a saved selection.

7-11 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Examining the Discoverer Plus OLAP Work Area

7-12 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Using the Available Items Pane 1 2 3

7-13 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Accessing the Edit Worksheet Wizard

7-14 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Saved Selections Saved selections are objects that contain a saved set of dimension members. They can be created in two ways: –Using the Edit Worksheet Wizard –Using the Query Steps pane In Discoverer Plus OLAP, saved selections are stored in the Discoverer Catalog: –Reusable for queries in other reports –Can be shared with other users

7-15 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Creating Saved Selections: Edit Worksheet

7-16 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Creating Saved Selections: Edit Worksheet

7-17 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Understanding Saved Selection Options

7-18 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Using Saved Selections

7-19 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Undoing or Redoing the Previous Action Select Edit > Undo, or click the Undo button. Select Edit > Redo, or click the Redo button.

7-20 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Removing Items from a Report

7-21 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Viewing the Query Steps Pane Query Steps pane

7-22 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Creating Saved Selections: Query Steps Pane

7-23 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Applying User Attributes in Queries

7-24 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Using the Selected Members Tabbed Page

7-25 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Viewing the Graph Most worksheet items can be hidden or displayed by using the View menu.

7-26 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Using the Graph

7-27 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Modifying the Graph Use the pop-up menu to change graph characteristics.

7-28 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Adding a Title

7-29 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Inserting a Hyperlink

7-30 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Saving the Worksheet and Workbook Name the worksheet. Save the workbook.

7-31 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Viewing the Finished Report

7-32 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Adding a Worksheet to a Workbook

7-33 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Combining Measures of Different Dimensionality 4D 3D

7-34 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Combining Measures of Different Dimensionality 4D - 3D = 4D

7-35 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Stoplight Formats Are data-driven formats Identify data that falls within specified ranges of: –Desirable –Acceptable –Unacceptable Are used to quickly identify underachievers and overachievers

7-36 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Creating Stoplight Formats

7-37 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Stoplight Format Reporting

7-38 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Creating OLAP Calculations in Discoverer

7-39 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Summary In this lesson, you should have learned how to: Describe the components of OracleBI Discoverer Connect to an analytic workspace using Discoverer Plus OLAP Create worksheets that contain crosstabs and graphs of OLAP data Use Discoverer Plus OLAP analytic techniques Create and use saved selections Create and use stoplight formatting

7-40 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Practice 7-1: Overview This practice covers the following topics: Starting Discoverer Plus OLAP and creating a connection, workbook, and worksheet Using dimension condition criteria and saved selections in queries Displaying and modifying the graph Using stoplight formatting Adding a title to the report Saving the workbook

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7-52 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Practice 7-2: Overview This practice covers the following topics: Adding new worksheets to the workbook Creating a report that compares actual data with budget data Combining measures of different dimensional shapes

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