Prompting in Dashboards and Analyses

This chapter explains how to construct prompts in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and use them to specify the data that is displayed in dashboards and analyses. It also describes the auto-complete functionality and explains how to add dashboard prompts to dashboards and dashboard pages.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• "What Are Inline and Dashboard Prompts?"

• "What are Column Prompts?"

• "Other Prompt Types"

• "What Types of User Input Options Can I Use With a Column or Variable Prompt?"

• "How Will Prompts Created in Previous Versions Be Upgraded?"

• "How Do Prompts Work in Oracle BI Mobile?"

• "Can Dashboard Prompts and Analysis Prompts Interact?"

• "In What Order Does Oracle BI EE Apply Prompts with Default Values?"

• "What Is Auto-Complete?"

• "Creating a Column Prompt"

• "Overriding a Selection Step With a Column Prompt"

• "Creating an Image Prompt"

• "Creating a Currency Prompt"

• "Creating a Variable Prompt"

• "Editing Prompts"

• "Adding a Dashboard Prompt to a Dashboard or Dashboard Page"

• "Adding a Hidden Dashboard Prompt to a Dashboard or Dashboard Page"