Drill from Chart to Webi Report

I have a webi report created from a universe. This report has a stacked bar chart.

On X axis I have Region, on Y axis I have Count of employees(CNT). And then we have a stacked contents as Dept.

Hierarchy in Universe → Region → Dept

Preview 1 → See Attachment → Main Chart

Here FL is region, A,B,C are depts. That means FL has 20 employees in Dept A.
I have a drill down for this report. I drill by using the hierarchy Region-> Dept. Well and good, it drills down further to Dept and gives the counts.

Preview 2–> See Attachment–> Drilled Chart

What I wanted is when I stop drilling down at Dept like above for FL, if I click on the bar with Dept A, I want to go to another Webi report where it gives the details of the 20 employees in the Dept A. How can I achieve this?

Normally for a few other reports I used a hyperlink and used openDoc to open a webi report. But how should I get to a report after I do the drill down.

Please let me know if anyone knows how to do this.

Thanks in advance
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Chikki (BOB member since 2006-05-08)

I don’t believe you can ‘Activate’ a chart to allow it to opendoc.

The only way I can think of doing which is highly unlikely to work would be to define a custom hierarchy and at the bottom level put an object which creates an appropriate opendoc statement…but there isn’t any guarantee it’ll work.

Can you compromise and just show a link in an adjacent table when the user is at the appropriate level of drill?


Nick Daniels :uk: (BOB member since 2002-08-15)

How can we just show the link when it is at an appropriate drill level? How do you pass the info like if the user has clicked on ‘Region FL’ \ Dept A’ then we just pass on the FL and A as the parameter to report. Is there any variable within BO which holds that?

(or)

Can we achieve this in Xcelsius?

Please suggest


Chikki (BOB member since 2006-05-08)

Check out the DrillFilters() function.


Nick Daniels :uk: (BOB member since 2002-08-15)

Thanks Nick. I will check and try if that works out.


Chikki (BOB member since 2006-05-08)