Frequently Asked Question

How to use a date/time object in a N4V navigation element
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Symptom

  • You need to use date/datetime values to filter your webi report through a N4V navigation element (dropdown list, radio buttons, checkboxes...) but it doesn't work

Environment

  • Need4Viz : all versions
  • SAPBI : all versions

Symptom

Create a query with a date/datetime dimension and mesure(s) then display the result in a Webi table.

Create an Input Control based on the date/datetime object.

Create a N4V navigation element (dropdown list) assign the date/datetime object and affect the created Input Control.

When you select a value in the N4V element, the Input Control is not updated and the report is not filtered.

This behavior is due to a limitation in Webi that cannot send "date/datetime" object to N4V engine in the expected format.

Resolution

To use a date/datetime object as a filter, you just need to create a corresponding text variable and use it to filter your report.

Creation of the Webi variable :

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Creation of the Input Control 

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Using Webi variable in the N4V navigation element 

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Filtering the table 

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