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OTBI Office Hours
February 2024
Julian Challenger, Director HCM Product Management

Raghavendra Raghunath, Senior Principal Product Manager for BI

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Agenda

• Tips
• Customer Connect

• Getting started

• Effective date reporting

• Reporting on attribute changes

• Q&A – use the Q&A window

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Tips Getting Started

• Build simple and then improve

• Summarise and drill to detail
• Only include the essential columns
• Utilise Cloud Customer Connect

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Tips Getting Started

• Security:
• Develop reports with a view-all security role
• Test reports with users with real production security roles (use an agent and
‘run as’ a user)

• Migrate reports to production using archive/unarchive in

the same shared folder (see here)

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Tips Effective Date Reporting

• Data is generally as of the current date

• You can define the report effective date to the future or
past
SET VARIABLE PARAM_EFFECTIVE_DATE ='@{P_DATE}[YYYY-MM-
DD]{@{system.currentTime}[YYYY-MM-DD]}';

• Examples: here, here and here

• Documentation here

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Tips Reporting on Attribute Changes

• Reporting on current and previous values side by side,

e.g. previous and current job
• This can only be done using Logical SQL for multiple
attributes like job, grade and department
• Example using OTBI with one attribute here
• Examples using Logical SQL: here, here and here

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Resources

• Customer Connect Forum

• Report Sharing Center
• OTBI Resources

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Demonstration

• Live Demo of column and view selectors and calculated

columns and binning

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Q&A

• Use the Q&A window

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Thank you

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