Interactions in Views

You can specify which interactions are available when users:

Click in a data view. See "Click Interactions in Views."
Right-click in a pivot table, treemap, table, or trellis view at runtime. See "Right-Click Menu for Data Views."

Click Interactions in Views

You can specify which interactions are available when users click (that is, left-click) in a data view. The following types of interactions are available:

None — Specifies that nothing happens when users click the column heading or a value. This option turns off drilling for attribute columns; it does not turn off drilling for hierarchical columns.
Drill — Enables users to drill down to more detailed information. See "Drilling in Views."
Action Links — Enables users to click a hot spot in a data view and then select an action link to execute an action, such as navigating to a saved analysis or invoking an Enterprise Java Bean (EJB). See Chapter 10, "Working with Actions."
Send Master-Detail Events — Sends master -detail events in a master-detail relationship. See "What Is Master-Detail Linking of Views?" and "Linking Views in Master-Detail Relationships."

You specify which left-click interactions are available at the criteria level using the "Column Properties dialog: Interaction tab." These left-click interactions take effect in all data views.

Note:

You specify runtime interactions for views (for example, sort or move) by using the "Analysis Properties dialog: Interactions tab."

How Will Interactions Created in Views in Previous Releases Be Upgraded?

In previous releases (prior to 11g) of Oracle BI EE, you could set up interactions at the view level. In this release, you specify all left-click interactions at the criteria level. For more information, see "Upgrading Interactions in Views" in Upgrade Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence.

Right-Click Interactions in Views

You can specify which interactions are available when users right-click in a pivot table, table, treemap, or trellis view at runtime. For example, you can right-click to Sort, Drill, and Create Calculated Items. See "Right-Click Menu for Data Views" for additional information. Not all right-click interactions are available for each view type at runtime.

You specify which right-click interactions are available at the analysis level using the "Analysis Properties dialog: Interactions tab." These right-click interactions take effect in pivot table, table, treemap, and trellis views at runtime.

Note:

Most right-click interactions are not available for graphs in trellis views (Simple Trellis and Advanced Trellis). You can, however, include actions links as right-click interactions for graphs in trellis views. In addition, right-click on text is allowed, meaning the user can right-click on text in a trellis view in the same manner as in a pivot table view. This includes data cells in an advanced trellis that have Visualization set to Text.

Best Practice:

Include the selection steps view when using right-click interactions to track which steps and constraints have been applied. See "Working with Selections of Data" for additional information.