Trailing Spaces in OBIEE

Joy Hanneman-161050

Summary

formatting question

Content

Hello! I am hoping to poll the community regarding some OBIEE formatting i'm trying to accomplish.

I have a report where I need to create trailing spaces and have fixed character length columns. I have leveraged casting as VARCHAR, overriding the default value to plain text (don't break spaces) and using the prefix in the advanced tab of

SET VARIABLE DISABLE_RIGHTTRIM_FOR_VARCHAR=1,

DISABLE_RIGHTTRIM_ON_LENGTH_FOR_VARCHAR=1;

I'm still not getting the results I am expecting. When I export it no matter the file type, its still trimmed and the trailing spaces are gone.

Do you know what I am doing wrong?

I really appreciate any advice! I haven't had much luck with the knowledge database and using on site resources to get this figured out.

 

The specificity of this formatting is due to a file we are sending off to a vendor where they have fixed character length columns included in the requirements.

Thanks!

Joy Hanneman

Code Snippet

SET VARIABLE DISABLE_RIGHTTRIM_FOR_VARCHAR=1,

DISABLE_RIGHTTRIM_ON_LENGTH_FOR_VARCHAR=1;

Julian Challenger-Oracle

Moved to OBIEE forum.

Nathan CCC

Here is a not very elegant way of getting a fixed length string (10) by concatenating non breaking space character 160 to the end of the string... 

select all 0 s_0
, substring(cast("Expenses - Expense Transactions Real Time"."Time"."Calendar Year" as character)||repeat(char(160),10) from 1 for 10) as s_1
from "Expenses - Expense Transactions Real Time"
order by 1 asc nulls last, 2 asc nulls last