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OBIEE - roll up data & legend

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3427784
3427784 Rank 4 - Community Specialist
edited Aug 13, 2024 6:00PM in Oracle Analytics Cloud and Server

Hello,

Simple question - Is there an option in OBIEE to modify the names of legend descriptions and exclude certain legends for OBIEE charts? If not, what routes can I take in order to modify legends for OBIEE charts? Appreciate the guidance.

Thank you all

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  • Gianni Ceresa
    Gianni Ceresa Mod

    Hi,

    In the chart the legend has no option : it's there or it isn't. Names are names of columns.

    If you need a kind of custom legend you can add a "legend" view to your analysis. The legend view is built by hand, so is static but allow you to put what you want inside the way you want it.

  • Pedro F
    Pedro F Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    Hi,

    You can't really customize a legend of a chart, you can show it or not and the names you display are the values of your columns.

    However, you can always use the legend view which gives you more freedom to do whatever you want.

    Edit: Just realized @Gianni Ceresa replied first so basically what he said.

  • Robert Angel
    Robert Angel Rank 8 - Analytics Strategist

    Hi Gianni,

    I take it you could add a text area and write some jscript in it to make legends not display?

    A question, not an answer....

  • Gianni Ceresa
    Gianni Ceresa Mod

    Hi Robert,

    Yes and no ....

    Meaning that if it's 11g the legend is inside the flash, so you will not manage to manipulate it.

    If on the other side it's 12c (or 11.1.1.9 configured for that) and so the charts are HTML5 things yes, you will be able to interact with the legend and hide things.

    But like always the problem here is the time required to code that: how worth is it?

    Charts come afterwards, they are loaded asynchronously and also have quite a lot of event handlers and things like that, so it's quite complex to mess around with it

  • 3427784
    3427784 Rank 4 - Community Specialist

    Absolutely correct Gianni, as imperative it is to have legends, it didn't make sense for us to spend too much time on such a task. It would be great to have one, but we ended up hiding the legend. The problem stemmed from having 2 facts not rolled up to the same level.