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SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook

You're reading from   SAP BusinessObjects Reporting Cookbook Over 80 recipes to help you build, customize, and distribute reports using SAP BusinessObjects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782172437
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Working with the BI Launch Pad FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating New Queries 3. Working Inside the Report 4. Working with Tables 5. Working with Charts 6. Formatting Reports 7. Filtering the Report Data 8. Merging Data 9. Using Formulas and Variables 10. Using Hyperlinks 11. Using Drill 12. Scheduling Reports 13. Working with BI Workspaces 14. Web Intelligence Rich Client Index

Passing parameters between reports


The hyperlink's core functionality and main use is to pass parameters between reports as we have already seen in the previous recipe. This capability allows us to pass a specific value to another report no matter whether the reports are based on the same universe or not (as long as we have common objects, we can connect them directly).

In order to pass parameters, we need to know the following two prerequirements:

  • We require a common value that the master report can pass to the target report, which is the same as in merged data providers. The value needs to be in the same type (for example, numeric to numeric object)

  • In this method, we require that the target report will have a prompt condition as part of its query filters; this prompt functions as the landing area of the value being passed from the master report.

Getting ready

We need to create a hyperlink between the revenue-per-country report to the orders-per-country report, which uses a country prompt.

The...

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