Click the drill icon next to the heading of the worksheet item you want to drill up Select a level of detail above the current level of detail.

10-6 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus 2. Select the underlined graph label with an up arrow beside it to drill up to that level of data. For example, select the Region drill link to drill up to Region level data. Discoverer displays the data at the next level up in the drill hierarchy. Notes ■ When you drill in a graph you only drill using the current drill hierarchy. ■ In pie charts, you can also drill directly down into each segment. In the example below, to display detailed profits data about cities in the East region, you double click on the East segment that is, labeled 46.85. Alternatively, select the axis label East in the graph legend to drill down. Figure 10–3 Drilling directly into a pie chart When you drill into a graph, the worksheet data is also updated if displayed to match the graph. ■ You can drill directly into a bar on a bar graph by double clicking on the bar. How to drill up and down using the Drill dialog To drill up and down using the Drill dialog: Drilling to analyze data 10-7 1. optional Select the worksheet item you want to drill on. 2. Choose Tools | Drill to display the Drill dialog . Hint : You can also display the Drill dialog by right-clicking on a worksheet cell and selecting the Drill option.

3. If you did not select a worksheet item in step 1, use the Where do you want to

drill from? drop down list to select the worksheet item you want to drill from. 4. Select Drill UpDown from the Where do you want to drill to? drop down list.

5. Select an item from the list.

For example, to drill from Region to City, select City.

6. optional To change the default advanced drill options, click Show Advanced to

display the extra options and select as required.

7. Click OK.

Discoverer updates the worksheet with the options you selected. For example, if you drill down from Region to City, Discoverer adds City data to the worksheet. About drilling to related items You drill to a related item to add a related item to the worksheet. For example, if you select Department, the Department item is added to the worksheet. Related items are items that are not currently in the worksheet but are in folders used by the worksheet. The item you drill to does not have to be in the same drill hierarchy as the item you drill from. In the example below, you want to add information on sales bands to a worksheet. Although you could do this by editing the worksheet to add the Sale Band item to the worksheet, you can also use the drill menu to quickly add this information.