Few Questions on Actuate

rahulkjha

Hello Members,

Here are few questions if Actuate can accomplish the following:

1. does Actuate have ability to slice-dice? 10:32 AM

2. does it have actual cube architecture i.e. we can do drill up/drill down/slice-dice in the same file? an OLAP kind of architecture? 10:33 AM

3. i have found in case of cross tab report no user interactivity is possible. is it true? 10:34 AM

4. unless we got report studio, do we have an option to add-remove data elements in chart on interactive viewer?

Let me know in case you need me to explain any of the above.

Regards,
Rahul

mwilliams

Hi Rahul,<br />
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1. I believe this may be coming in A11 for the interactive viewer. Here is a link to the New Features for Actuate 11 article.<br />
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<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.com/be/download/Milestone_Features_A11_M1-M6.pdf'>http://www.birt-exchange.com/be/download/Milestone_Features_A11_M1-M6.pdf</a><br />
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2. I think this is possible on a regular table, but not in a crosstab at this time.<br />
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3. Sorting is the only current thing you can do on a crosstab as far as interactivity goes, besides a drill through or something of that nature that you can do in Eclipse BIRT.<br />
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4. You can limit the data using filtering with the interactive viewer. You may have to link the chart to a table and filter the table to limit the data, but it is possible.<br />
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Let me know if you have any further questions.