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Date prompt in universe

October 9th, 2013 huangli+ No comments

Almost all the BO reports has a prompt to filter data, the date filter plays an important role in report filter, so

today I am going to summarize some of the most used @prompt in universe.

Background

Database: Oracle

BO: BO 4.1 sp6

The database function list: trunc, sysdate, last_day,add_months.

The green character: the variable in function, the variable name may change depend on your system environment.

The orange character: the orange character is the function script.

1. Date range filter

Appearance: Date range filter @prompt function .

Functionality: The user may use the default current parameters, which means current year and month, or select

the date he/she wish.Implement:

Datebase.date column BETWEEN

case when

@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,{‘Current’},User:-1) =

‘Current’ then trunc(sysdate,’yy’)

else

trunc(to_date(@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,

{‘Current’},User:-1),’YYYY-MM’),’yy’)

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end

AND

case when

@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,{‘Current’},User:-1) =

‘Current’ then LAST_DAY(TRUNC(sysdate))

elseLAST_DAY(to_date(@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,

{‘Current’},User:-1),’YYYY-MM’))

end

2. Begin of the year to selected date filter

Appearance: Date range filter @prompt function.Functionality: The user may use the default current parameters, which means current year and month, or select

the date he/she wish. e.g. the user may select 2013-03, then the date range would be 2013-1 to 2013-03. The

start month would always be the January and the year is the user selected year.

Implement:

Datebase.date column BETWEENcase when@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,{‘Current’},User:-1) = ‘Current’

then trunc(sysdate,’yy’)else

trunc(to_date(@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,{‘Current’},User:-1),’YYYY-MM’),’yy’)

endAND

case when@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,{‘Current’},User:-1) = ‘Current’

then LAST_DAY(TRUNC(sysdate))elseLAST_DAY(to_date(@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,

{‘Current’},User:-1),’YYYY-MM’))

3. Past 12 months filter

Appearance: Date range filter @prompt function.Functionality: The user may use the default current parameters, which means current year and month, or selectthe date he/she wish. e.g. the user may select 2013-03, then the date range would be 2012-3 to 2013-03. The

user may want to see the trend in the past 12 months, so this kind of prompt is very popular.Implement:

Datebase.date column between

case when@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,{‘Current’},User:-1) = ‘Current’

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then add_months(trunc(sysdate,’MM’),-12)elsetrunc(add_months(to_date(@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,

{‘Current’},User:-1),’YYYY-MM’),-12))end

and

case when

@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,{‘Current’},User:-1) = ‘Current’then LAST_DAY(TRUNC(sysdate))

elseLAST_DAY(to_date(@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,

{‘Current’},User:-1),’YYYY-MM’))end

4. Past n years filter

Appearance: Date range filter @prompt function.Functionality: The user may use the default current parameters, which means current year and month, or select

the date he/she wish. e.g. the user may select 2013-03, then the date range would be (2013-n)-01 to 2013-03.The user may want to see the trend in the past few years, so this kind of prompt is also very popular.Implement:

Datebase.date column between

case when@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,{‘Current’},User:-1) = ‘Current’

then trunc(add_months(sysdate,-12*n),’YYYY’)else

trunc(add_months(LAST_DAY(to_date(@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’dateobject‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,{‘Current’},User:-1),’YYYY-MM’)),-12*n),’YYYY’)

end

and

case when@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,{‘Current’},User:-1) = ‘Current’

then LAST_DAY(TRUNC(sysdate))

elseLAST_DAY(to_date(@Prompt(‘Please select month:’,'A’,’date object‘,Mono,Free,Not_Persistent,

{‘Current’},User:-1),’YYYY-MM’))

end

You may customize the script for your own needs, hope it may helpful for you:-)

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