Click OK to save the drill link details and close the New Link dialog. Click OK to close the Links dialog.

10-20 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus For example, you might type details.htm after the URL. Hint : You can also type the URL in full into the Destination field. Remember to enclose item names in angle brackets that is, . The screenshot below shows how the Destination field would look if you had followed this example. The URL contains the worksheet item name in angle brackets for example, Region, indicating that the value of that worksheet item is passed to the Web browser at run time. For example, if you select a drill link in a Region item and the cell contains the value West, Discoverer passes the following URL to the default Web browser: http:company.comregionsWestdetails.htm 10. Click OK to save the drill link details and close the New Link dialog. 11. Click OK to close the Links dialog How to use drill links You use drill links that you set up yourself or are set up by the worksheet creator to drill out to other worksheets or Internet pages. You can also drill out to a file stored in the database. For more information, see About user defined drill links . You can drill to another worksheet, Internet URL, or file stored in the database using: ■ a drill link icon for more information, see How to drill out to a worksheet or Internet URL using a drill link icon ■ the Drill dialog for more information, see How to drill out to a worksheet or Internet URL using the Drill dialog How to drill out to a worksheet or Internet URL using a drill link icon You drill out to analyze data or information external to the current worksheet. For example, you might want to: ■ display a different worksheet in a new tab window ■ display an Internet page in a browser window ■ display a file for example, a Microsoft Word file in a separate application To drill out to a worksheet, Internet page, or file: Drilling to analyze data 10-21 1. Select the drill link icon in the worksheet cell you want to drill out from. Discoverer displays a pop up list of drill links available. Select the link you want to use from the pop up list. Discoverer behaves as follows: ■ if you drill out to a worksheet in the same workbook, Discoverer displays the worksheet in a new tab window ■ if you drill out to a worksheet in a different workbook, Discoverer closes the current workbook and opens the new workbook and worksheet ■ if you drill out to an Internet page, Discoverer displays the Internet page in a new browser window ■ if you drill out to a file, Discoverer displays the file using associated application for example, a text editor How to drill out to a worksheet or Internet URL using the Drill dialog To drill out to a worksheet or Internet URL using the Drill dialog:

1. Select the worksheet item or cell you want to drill on.