Interactive Reporting 11 Query User Guide
1 Overview
This document is intended for use by current users of the Hyperion 8.5 Foundation web site and web
client users. Its purpose is to highlight the changes in the new version and identify some of the more
useful upgrades. Links are included to additional material.
2 Website and Login
Ensure that you have performed the web browser setup and plug-in installation steps before trying to
run queries. A step by step document is available to do that.
3 Useful Information
The following links may provide additional detailed information that you may find useful.
DOIT Help files
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Screencast on Interactive Reporting http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=16598
Logging Into Workspace http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=13520
Running a query in Workspace http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=13545
Oracle
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Interactive Reporting Web Client Help
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12825_01/epm.111/ir_web_client/frameset.htm?launch.ht
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Interactive Reporting – New Features (in particular, the EPM Workspace Enhancements chapter and
the Interactive Reporting Enhancements chapter)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12825_01/epm.111/hs_new_features.pdf
4 EPM Workspace
The EPM Workspace is the new Interactive Reporting Website. It has some additional functionality and
is much more user friendly than the previous Hyperion site. In addition, it has a longer timeout period
(now 4 hours).
4.1 Home Page
When you first login to the site, the page that is displayed is called the EPM Workspace. The first page
that is displayed is the HomePage.
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The Recently Opened section gives a list of the files you have recently opened, making it easy to access
frequently used documents without navigating through the folder structure.
The Quick Links section will display any documents you mark as favorites within Interactive Reporting
(again, making it easy to access documents).
4.2 Explore
This folder/navigation page is similar to the view you’ve seen in Hyperion 8.5. To open this page, click
on the Explore button
at the top of the EPM HomePage
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You can navigate through the folders just as you would in Hyperion 8.5, except that the folder structure
does not disappear now. The functionality is similar to other Windows applications.
In the right pane, you can:
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drag the columns to re-order them
click on the column header to sort by that column
Change the columns that are visible (right click on any column header and put a check mark
next to any column you want to see.
To mark a document as a favorite, right-click on the document and select Add to Favorites. You can also
click on the document to highlight it, and select Favorites Add to Favorites from the menu.
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The link to the document or query should now be available in the Quick Links section on your
HomePage.
To navigate back and forth between Home, Explore, and any other windows you may have open, use the
tabs that are displayed on the bottom of the workspace.
5 Running Queries in Web Client
Assuming the instructions for installing the web client were followed, all you need to do to display a
query is to click on the query document link from your HomePage Recently Opened section, the
HomePage Quick Links section, or double-click on the document listed Explore page. The web client will
be launched in a new window and will look virtually identical to the existing Hyperion 8.5 Web Client. As
before, follow the direction on the query’s home page on how to process the query and access the
results.
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6 Exporting to .xls
Many current Hyperion users export the results or pivots to Excel to further manipulate the results for
their own specific purposes. This option is still available Interactive Reporting in the same way it is in
Hyperion.
To export data from a results, table, or pivot section:
While looking at the data you want to export, click on File  Export  Section… from the menu bar.
Change the file type to Excel (*.xls) and choose the folder where you want to save the file. Click the
Save button.
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Note: the .xls format is an older Excel format. If you’ve recently been updated to Office 2010, you may
get an error message when you try to open the file:
You are attempting to open a file type <<File Type>> that has been blocked by your File Block settings in
the Trust Center.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922850
When a section is exported from Hyperion to Excel, it’s in the .xls format which is an older Excel format.
That’s why it initially gives the warning when you open it up in Office 2010 – that type of file is initially
“blocked” from editing by default. You can do the following steps to allow the file type.
In Excel 2010, the restriction on opening the file can be removed by following the steps below.
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Click the File tab.
Under Help, click Options.
Click Trust Center, and then click Trust Center Settings.
In the Trust Center, click File Block Settings.
To allow the opening of a file that is blocked, click to clear the check box for that file type.
Click OK two times.
In addition to these steps, you can move the file to a trusted location to override the registry policy settings.
7 Migrating locally saved Hyperion 8.5 Web Client queries
If you have queries you saved locally and/or modified from the Hyperion 8.5 Web Client, follow these
instructions to open them in the new Interactive Reporting Web Client.
1.
Log into the Interactive Reporting workspace.
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2. Drag your saved .bqy file into the Interactive Reporting workspace window to open it in the web
client.
3. The following message will appear (possibly twice). Click OK to this dialog box if it appears.
4. A dialog box will pop-up, telling you that you are trying to connect to a different server version.
Change the server version to Interactive Reporting Web Client 11.1.1.4 and click on the OK
button.
5. Another pop-up dialog box will appear, again telling you that you are trying to connect to a
different version. Again, choose Interactive Reporting Web Client 11.1.1.4 and click the OK
button.
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6. A log-in box for the UW System Authentication box will appear. You don’t have to log in; just
click on the x in the upper right hand corner of the popup below to close it.
7. You may get a message saying “Unknown server error”; if so, just click OK to close the message
box.
8. A “Connect to Server” message box will appear, asking you to enter the server address. Replace
bi.fastar.wisconsin.edu with bi2.fastar.wisconsin.edu. Replace HYPS with workspace. Example:
If the address shown is https://bi.fastar.wisconsin.edu/HYPS/dataaccess/Browse?, you would
change it to: https://bi2.fastar.wisconsin.edu/workspace/dataaccess/Browse?
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9. You may get a warning message like the one below, telling you that some sections may not be
processable. You can click OK to close this message box and ignore the message.
10. Test your query, and SAVE it to your computer (File  Save as… ). Otherwise, you will have to
do the migration again if you open it again.
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