Click the New button from the Definition Pane. From the list, select Currency Enter a label for the currency prompt in the Label field. The label is displayed as In the Description field, enter a short description for the prompt. This description Click OK

6-14 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12. If you want the selected prompt and all other prompts that follow it to be displayed in a new column on the prompt selection page, then click the New Column check box that corresponds to where you want the prompts to be displayed in a new column. 13. To preview how the prompt is displayed on the dashboard, either use the Display pane to preview the prompt with sample data, or click the Preview button if available in the Definition Pane toolbar to view the prompt with actual prompt values. Creating or Editing a Currency Prompt A currency prompt enables users to change the currency type that is displayed in the dashboard or analysis. When applied to a dashboard or embedded in an analysis, the prompt provides users with a list where they can select a currency. The currency types in this list are specified by the administrator in userpref_currencies.xml. The same list of currencies is displayed in the My Account dialog: Preferences tab . Use the following procedure to create a currency prompt that you can apply to one or more dashboards, or to create a currency prompt that is embedded in an analysis. To create or edit a currency prompt: 1. To create a named currency prompt, use the following sub-procedure. a. Navigate to the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Home page, locate the global header, hover the mouse pointer over the New menu to access the menu, and select Dashboard Prompt. The Select Subject Areas menu is displayed. b. From the Select Subject Area menu, select the subject area for which you want to create the prompt. The Definition pane is displayed. 2. To create an inline prompt, either create a new analysis or access an existing analysis for which you want to create a prompt. In the Analysis editor , click the Prompts tab. The Definition pane is displayed.

3. Click the New button from the Definition Pane. From the list, select Currency

Prompt . The New Prompt dialog is displayed.

4. Enter a label for the currency prompt in the Label field. The label is displayed as

the prompts field label. You can include HTML markup tags in the caption, such as b, font, and table.

5. In the Description field, enter a short description for the prompt. This description

is displayed as tooltip text, which is displayed when the user hovers the mouse pointer over the prompts label in the dashboard or analysis. Note: If the Preview button is not available, then the administrator has suppressed its display. Note: The Currency Prompt option is available only if the administrator has configured the userpref_currencies.xml file as described in Configuring Currency Options in Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. Prompting in Dashboards and Analyses 6-15 The descriptions are also displayed when administrators view the stored prompt object from the Catalog Manager.

6. Click OK. The prompt displays in the

Definition pane . 7. Save the prompt. Note the following options: ■ If you are creating a dashboard prompt, then click the Save button in the prompts editor, specify the folder in which you want to save the prompt, and give the prompt a descriptive name. Note that dashboard prompts that are saved in personal folders are available only to you. Dashboard prompts that are saved in shared folders are available to other users that have permission to access the object. ■ If you are saving a dashboard prompt for use with an Oracle BI Publisher report that receives its data from the Oracle BI Server or SQL Server, then the dashboard prompts name must match the name of the reports parameter. ■ If you are creating an inline prompt, then save the analysis. 8. Use the arrow buttons in the Definition Pane to reorder the selected prompt. Reordering the prompts controls the order in which the choices are displayed to users at run time, so ensure that the order is logical, especially if you are creating constrained prompts. 9. If you want the selected prompt and all other prompts that follow it to be displayed in a new column on the prompt selection page, then click the New Column check box that corresponds to where you want the prompts to be displayed in a new column. 10. To preview how the prompt is displayed on the dashboard, either use the Display pane to preview the prompt with sample data, or click the Preview button if available in the Definition Pane toolbar to view the prompt with actual prompt values. Creating or Editing a Variable Prompt Use the following procedure to create a variable prompt that you can apply to one or more dashboards, or to create a variable prompt that is embedded in an analysis. For more information about variable prompts, see Other Prompt Types . For more information about variables, see Using Variables . To create or edit a variable prompt: 1. To create a named variable prompt, use the following sub-procedure. a. Navigate to the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Home page, locate the global header, hover over the New menu to access the menu, and from the menu select Dashboard Prompt. The Select Subject Areas menu is displayed. b. From the Select Subject Area menu, select the subject area for which you want to create the prompt. The Definition pane is displayed. 2. To create an inline prompt, either create a new analysis or access an existing analysis for which you want to create a prompt. In the Analysis editor , click the Prompts tab. The Definition pane is displayed.

3. Click the New button in the Definition Pane. From the list, select Variable Prompt.