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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">OBIEE users,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I recently found out some helpful information when it comes to filtering in OBIEE and wanted to pass it along.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span style="color:black">How to create a filter for ‘blank’ spaces (OBIEE vs Hyperion)</span></u></i><span style="color:black">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black">Hyperion</span></u><span style="color:black">: Within a query section, open the filter window of the desired field, select ‘show values’, select the ‘blank’ value. As a reminder, the ‘Show Values’ option takes
time to complete as it runs a query on the database to find all values.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Example:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><img width="290" height="209" style="width:3.0208in;height:2.177in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D7B5E1.630AF310" alt="cid:image002.png@01D7AECD.9AE81A30"><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
OBIEE</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: The solution is to type one ‘space’ in the filter condition (without quotes). Start within the Analysis, and in the Criteria section, open the filter window of a field
and input one ‘space’ in the filter value. <br>
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The blue highlight below represents the one ‘space’ in the value.<br>
</span><img width="321" height="155" style="width:3.3437in;height:1.6145in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D7B5E1.630AF310" alt="cid:image001.png@01D7AECC.1EAD8A50"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">In most occurrences of the Datamart, "blanks" are stored as a single ‘space’ character. If this filter does not eliminate the blanks in your query, then more often than not, the
value is stored differently in the Database. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Good luck,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Aaron Wallace<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Sr. Datamart Business Analyst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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