HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Report Optimizer Software 6.0 Performing On-Report Analysis with Web Intelligence (August 2008)

Performing On-Report Analysis with Web Intelligence 235
20
Linking documents with OpenDocument
Overview
OpenDocument is a function that enables you to open another document from within a
Web Intelligence document using a URL. You can use OpenDocument to create a
hyperlink in one document that opens another document containing related information.
Both documents must be stored in the corporate repository and accessible through
InfoView.
How OpenDocument works
You place the OpenDocument function in a report cell in the form:
=”<OpenDocument function>”
For example:
=”http://<webserver>/businessobjects/enterprise115/desktoplaunch/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?sTyp
e=wid”
Example: Link a report, showing sales revenue results for US states to a document
showing store information for the state you choose
In this example a Web Intelligence report displays sales revenue per US state for each
quarter. A particularly high result interests you. You would like to find out more information
about the retail outlets in a specific state, to understand more about their operating
conditions, and find out the name of the store managers you could contact across that
state.
You click on the hyperlink on the cell that displays “New York.” A document opens that
contains detailed information about the stores in New York.
Using prompts to filter results in the opened document
You can define the hyperlink to pass parameters that enter one or more values as the
response to prompts on the target document. This enables you to dynamically filter the
document you open by the specific values you want to analyze.
In the example given above, the target document has a prompt on the [State] object and
the OpenDocument hyperlink in the parent document requests Web Intelligence to use the
value that is clicked as the value for the prompt. So, when you click the hyperlink on “New
York”, you see only those values for New York in the target document that opens.
You can specify a value in the hyperlink that is different from the value displayed in the
hyperlink. For example, you can create the hyperlink in the cell that displays the sales