OBIEE SmartView Part 4 – Beyond Answers with VBA

Another reason to use SmartView for OBIEE? The Power of VBA!!!

OBIEE SmartView Part 1 – Creating your first OBIEE SV Report

OBIEE SmartView Part 2 – Connecting to Essbase

OBIEE SmartView Part 3 – Your own secure mini reporting book

It is required to have the skills from Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 before you can fully understand what I am doing here. Moreover, you will need some basic skills of VBA. I’m not a VBA or Excel expert, but coding and programming is more or less the same everywhere. There are loads of resources on learning VBA if you google it. So I won’t google it for your and I’m not going through VBA bits and pieces.

So what is this Part 4 all about? Let say you would like to export an Answer report to workbook with multiple sheets based on members 2 different selections. Answer won’t be able to do that and SmartView alone won’t be able to do that. In this post, I will use this as an example as to what you can do with SmartView OBIEE VBA. In short, I’ll call this example, MultiSheet Excel Export.

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