Back or Undo button needed in reporting

Lisa Stucky

Description

Please add a back or undo button in reporting.

Currently we use Cognos and even being experienced in this tool, I constantly use the undo button. It would be helpful if Oracle reporting had the same, I was actually shocked to find out it didn't. I was trying to build my first report and drug a column to the wrong place and it errored out the entire report, so all that time was lost. 

Use Case and Business Need

Will benefit all users of reporting 

More details

An undo button is standard functionality for a report writing tool

Original Idea Number: a4d410685c

Brendan J. Doyle-Oracle

Oracle Analytics Cloud and Desktop both provide Redo and Undo edits: https://docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/bi/analytics-desktop/bidvd/undo-and-redo-edits.html

• Undo Last Edit quick keys: (Ctrl + Z)
• Redo Last Edit quick keys: (Ctrl + Y)

You can quickly undo your last action and then redo it if you change your mind. For example, you can try a different visualization type when you don’t like the one you’ve just selected, or you can go back to where you were before you drilled into the data.

The undo and redo options are useful as you experiment with different visualizations. You can undo all the edits you've made since you last saved a project. However, in some cases, you can't undo and then redo an edit. For example, in the Create Data Set page, you've selected an analysis from an Oracle Application data source to use as a data set in the project. In the next step, if you use the undo option to remove the data set, you can't redo this change.

• To undo or redo an edit, go to the toolbar for the project or the data set and click Undo Last Edit or Redo Last Edit. You can use these options only if you haven't saved the project since making the changes.