I have no idea if this would be helpful to you, but I had an Analysis which contained several Pivot Table Views. In order to force a page break in the PDF between each Pivot, I was able to insert a Static Text block between Pivots as needed. In other words, the Compound Layout contained: Pivot Table A, Static Text1, Pivot…

If you get to a point where the problem is wasting too much of your time, you might consider converting the date to a CHAR for download using the CAST function. Your report will "look" correct. Of course, the dates in the column would not be readily available for calculation purposes, but the Excel DATEVALUE() function can…

On the first point, what I was trying to say was that every existing analysis which exported numeric values to Excel, now, without any changes, exports all numeric quantities as 'Numbers stored as text'. I even tried editing the analysis to override the default value of the ColumnProperties>DataFormat to explicitly specify…

Christian, Thanks, I was just wondering if the January patch was essential. Regarding the new release, when it is working, we have found some changes that I’d like to find out if they’re a known BI issue or yet more implementation grief. Specifically: * All numeric measures, when exported to Excel, are now text values in…

Hi Gianni, Thanks for your response. Indeed, the smell is strong and unpleasant. Unfortunately, I have yet to garner any assistance on a technical issue from PayChex that I would grade as even moderately competent. So getting through this is going to be a painful experience. Over the past week I had problems each time I…

Hi Christian, Thanks for the response. I was certain it was their implementation and not the BI update per se; though I’ll admit to raising an eyebrow at a release number that ends with a zero. This project is the first I’ve ever come across Oracle BI. It was only from error messages in Paychex FLEX’s custom report module…