Upgrading Pivot Tables Oracle BI Presentation Catalog: Other Upgrade Considerations

1-24 Upgrade Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence from a previous release prior to 11g, then all interactions are moved to the measures at the criteria level and take effect for all views. For example, suppose that you had created an analysis in a previous release prior to 11g whose criteria was defined as Region, District, Dollars, and Units. In addition, you had created an interaction for a graph view. To upgrade the interaction for this release, the interaction is moved to both Dollars and Units at the criteria level.

1.3.2.8 Upgrading Conditional Formats

In 11g, conditional formatting that is added to a column in the Analysis Editor: Criteria tab applies to both table and pivot table views. In 10g, conditional formats based on another column apply only to table views. For example, suppose that you create an analysis that uses both a Product and a Sales column. If a conditional format is setup on Product to format Product where Sales is greater than some value, then when the condition is met, the format would apply to table views that include the Product column as well as pivot views that include Product. Conditional formats on attribute columns might need the columns Value Suppression option in the Edit Column Properties dialog: Column Format tab set to repeat to match 10g conditional formats displayed on table views. This applies only when the column is used in a table view and the conditional format is setup to be based on a measure. By changing the Value Suppression option for a column in Criteria, it might impact the layout of other table or pivot views in the analysis that use this column. For more information about conditional formatting, see Applying Conditional Formatting to Tables and Pivot Tables in Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

1.3.2.9 Upgrading Measure Columns

In previous releases prior to 11g, measure columns could easily be treated as attribute columns, which allowed you to move them freely among the edges of views. 11g introduces functionality that specifies to not show all the detail when a measure column is moved to an edge but rather to aggregate the measure column to the grain of the edge. During upgrade, all measure columns have the Treat as an Attribute Column box selected in the Edit Column Formula dialog: Column Formula tab. This allows for upgraded reports with measures moved to an edge of a pivot table or to the group by of a graph to work the same way as in 10g. New 11g analyses have the Treat as an Attribute Column option for measures set to false by default.

1.3.2.10 Upgrading Report-Based Totals

In previous releases prior to 11g, you had the ability to create report-based totals in table views. Because report-based totals are handled slightly differently in this release, you might notice a difference in totals as follows: ■ If the previous table included all report-based totals, then all measure columns and attribute columns in the upgraded table use the Default option with the Report-Based Total option. ■ If the previous table view included a mix of report-based totals and non-report-based totals, then all measure columns and attribute columns in the upgraded table use the Default option with the Report-Based Total option.