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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Dynamic measures selection with Webi

As we know, Web Intelligence is a very flexible reporting tool with advanced analytic functionalities. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to implement a dynamic measures selection solution with Webi. Before we start, let me explain what is “dynamic measures selection”: for example, we have measures including sales quantity, sales revenue, discount amount, target sales revenue, etc. Users want to select which measures to be displayed on the report dynamically. The business background of this requirement is that for each measure, there’re actually multiple measures like this year value, last year value, variance, growth rate, etc. So displaying all measures at once may result in a too large report. So users want to just focus on some of the measures they are interested in.


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