How to copy from results?

Geraud Andreux

Summary

We cannot copy a person number from the results of an OTBI report - so we have to type it when we want to open it in a screen

Content

Hello,

something that must be very obvious but that I cannot figure out:

we have validation reports in OTBI that display a row per person where there is some wrong data.

The first thing the users want to do when there is a row, is to copy the person number (select it and they hit Ctrl+C), in order to paste it in a screen where they can update the data to fix it.

However the Ctrl+C doesn't "take": it doesn't update the clipboard. This is in IE and in Chrome.

Is there any option to active this?

For the moment they have to download the file as an excel before they can do that.

thanks a lot,

Geraud

Julian Challenger-Oracle

Moved to General OBIEE forum.  One solution would be to deliver the report as a spreadsheet via email.  Let's see what the OBIEE experts have to say though.

Michael Scaduto

I have not found a way to copy a value directly out of OBI.  What I invariably end up doing is creating a deep link for the value that brings up that record in the application.  There is a Taleo specific knowledge document that may serve as a good starting point for you.

Create Requisition and Candidate Links in OBI (Doc ID 2063826.1)

Prudence K

I think the original poster is referring to Fusion, do you know if there are the same type of deep linking options available for Fusion?  I would love to see the possibility of this as I would use this for many of our reports 

Shakher Sharma

Can you add a screenshot to start with?

Robert Fighiroae-Oracle

Hi Geraud,

This feature is not available in any OBIEE 11g environment.

This is currently scheduled to be introduced in a future version.  Until then, the following workarounds can be used.

If using Internet Explorer browser, you may try to do the following:

1. Place the mouse cursor in area outside the view and click once to shift focus.
2. Then drag the mouse across the view to highlight the data you want to copy.
3. Use control+C, or copy, from the edit menu or right mouse menu to copy the text to the clipboard.

If using Firefox or Chrome browser, or if above steps fail to work, you may try one of the following workarounds:

• Open the dashboard or report and export to PDF file.  Then copy the cells from PDF.
• Export the dashboard or report to an Excel file.  Then copy the cells from Excel.

Best regards,

Robert