New Action Link dialog

Use this dialog to create an action link to add to an analysis.

For more information, see:

This dialog is also displayed as:

Edit Action Link dialog

Components

Link Text

Use this field to enter the text to display as the link to execute the associated action.

Action

Displays the action to be associated with the action link.

Create New Action

Use this button to select the type of action to create. If you selected:

Navigate to BI Content, first the "Select BI Content For Action dialog" is displayed, where you select the Oracle BI EE content to which to navigate, and then the "Create New Action dialog" is displayed.
Invoke a Web Service, the "Select Web Service Operation dialog" is displayed, where you select a Web Service operation to be invoked, and then the Create New Action dialog is displayed.
Invoke a Java Method, the "Select Java Method dialog" is displayed, where you select the Java method to be invoked, and then the Create New Action dialog is displayed.
Any other action type, the Create New Action dialog is displayed.

Select existing action

Use this button to display the "Open dialog", where you select an existing action to add to the analysis.

Edit Parameter Mapping

This button is available only for named actions that have parameters that are not fixed or hidden.

Use this button to display the "Edit Parameter Mapping dialog", where you edit the action parameters.

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Displays these options:

Edit Action — Use this option to display the "Edit Action dialog", where you can edit the action.
Remove Action — Use this option to remove the action.
Save Action As — Use this option to display the "Save Action As dialog", where you can save the action to the catalog. If the action is an inline action, then the action is saved to the catalog rather than saved with the analysis. If the action is a named action, then you can save the action with the same name or another name.

Enable

Use this box to specify one of the following options:

Always — Use to specify that the action link is always to be enabled.
Conditionally — This option is not available when you are adding an action link to a column heading. Use to specify that the action link is to be enabled only under certain conditions. Selecting this option displays the Conditions area.

For more information, see "About Conditionally Enabling Actions".

Conditions

(Displayed only if the Conditionally option is selected.)

Use this area to create one or more conditions to be used to conditionally enable the action link.

To create a condition, you select either an attribute column or a hierarchical column on which to base it but with these restrictions:

If you select an attribute column, you can add multiple conditions.
If you select a hierarchical column, you can add only one condition.
You cannot combine conditions based on attribute columns with a condition based on a hierarchical column and vice versa.

If you add multiple conditions, then each additional condition you add is combined with the previous condition using the AND operator. The AND operator means that the criteria specified in each condition must be met. This is the default method for combining conditions. You can change the AND operator to OR by clicking AND. The OR operator means that the criteria specified in at least one condition must be met.

Depending on how you construct the condition combinations with the AND and OR operators, some conditions might be grouped. Grouped conditions are bounded by boxes.

This area includes the following components:

New Condition — Use this button to first select the column on which to base the condition and then display the "New Condition dialog", where you can create a condition.
Edit Filter — Use this option to display the "Edit Condition dialog", where you edit the condition.
Copy Filter and Paste Filter — Use these options to add a copy of the condition to the list of conditions. The copy is added below the condition that you copied with the AND operator between them.

You can then edit the copy of the condition. You can also change the operator to OR.

This option is useful to quickly add a condition to the list by modifying an existing one.
Delete — Use this button to delete the condition.
AND or OR — Use this button to toggle between the AND and OR operators.
Edit Filter Group — This button displays only for a group of conditions.

Displays these options:
- Ungroup — Use this option to ungroup the group of conditions.
- Delete Group — Use this option to delete the group of conditions.
- Duplicate Group — Use this option to duplicate the group of conditions