Frequently Asked Question
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 :
Creation of the Input Control
Using Webi variable in the N4V navigation element
Filtering the table