Choose Insert | Hierarchy to display the Select the Item Hierarchy option and click Next to display the

13-8 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 4. Move the date formats to include in this date hierarchy from the list on the left to the list on the right. You can select more than one date format at a time by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking another date format. 5. optional To move a date format in the hierarchy to a different position, select the date format in the list on the right and click: ■ Promote to move the date format higher in the hierarchy ■ Demote to move the date format lower in the hierarchy 6. optional To rename a date format, click the date format in the list on the right and specify the new name in the Description field. The description you specify is the label the user sees in Discoverer Plus. 7. Click Next to display the Hierarchy Wizard: Step 3 dialog . Figure 13–11 Hierarchy Wizard: Step 3 dialog Here you select which date items will use this date hierarchy.

8. Move the date items that will use this date hierarchy from the Available Items list

to the Selected Items list. You can select more than one item at a time by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking another item. Tip : To create just a date hierarchy template, do not select any date items on this page. Later, you can apply this template to date items by modifying their item properties for more information, see How to apply a date hierarchy template to a date item .

9. Click Next to open the

Hierarchy Wizard: Step 4 dialog name hierarchy . Creating and Maintaining Hierarchies 13-9 Figure 13–12 Hierarchy Wizard: Step 4 dialog

10. Specify a name and description for the new date hierarchy.

11. optional To make this date hierarchy template the default, select the Set as

default date hierarchy check box. If you select the Set as default date hierarchy check box, the date hierarchy template is displayed as the default in the Load Wizard: Step 4 dialog in the drop down list under the Date hierarchies check box. 12. Click Finish to create the date hierarchy and apply it to the date items that you selected in the Hierarchy Wizard: Step 3 dialog. The date hierarchies and the date hierarchy template now appear on the Workarea: Hierarchies tab . How to edit item hierarchies To edit an existing item hierarchy: 1. Select a hierarchy on the Hierarchies tab and choose Edit | Edit…to display the Edit Hierarchy dialog: Name tab .