Change OTBI Percent Data Format to Match Excel Behavior

User_DMLAB

Description

Change OTBI Percent Data Format to Match Excel Behavior

Use Case and Business Need

OBIEE/OTBI has always had a strange "feature" in which to use percent columns the data needs to be multiplied by 100.  From a data integrity standpoint this is a problem - the raw data should stay the same and allow a data format to be applied, similar to Excel.  A value of .5 should be .5 by default unless formatted as a percent, in which case the format should make it 50%.  Backward compatibility may be a concern here since many, many reports and the metadata already are developed to use this "feature". 

Original Idea Number: 6cc02af405

Jonathan Chan gmg

Enabling this request would prevent disastrous calculation errors when analyzes are modified or migrated.