How To Implement Breadcrumb in OBIEE / Siebel Analytics

Hi All,

Feeling accomplished as one more battle with Business has been won. Had a long debate over UI and usability of reports. Business kept complaining for certain navigation, and all I could say was, definitely will look into it. After every single discussion, felt helpless and incompetent. Spoke with folks at oracle support and got the same answer, “We don’t support this feature.”

Business had valid concern, all the needed was a mechanism to navigate back to the page they came from. In short they need the “BREADCRUMBS”.

The challenge was how to implement some thing like breadcrumb. Thought of many ways, even went to the extend of re writing some of the internal javascripts, but data and report persistent failed every time. At times I could navigate to the page, but the data integraty was lost between the pages.

One night got a dream that breadcrumbs are working on the application, but I knew the dream was too good to be true.

With all the knowledge of internal javascript, began my journey of debugging and wallahaa, got answer to the BREADCRUMB, thing which was sounding next to the impossible was possible now. See the image below ::

Bread Crumb

As the imagesI could click on UNITED STATES and could go back to level 1 of report, no need to clicking browser back button 4 times.

Below is the piece of code I used in the narrative view of the breadcrumb report. I know it may be difficult to understand, but I am open to work with individuals and can be reached email address provided in — About Me — page.

Following is the Javascript Code :

<span onclick=”javascript:PortalPageNav(event,’/shared/attach rate/_portal/2attach rate’,'Sales View – Detail’)” class=”Nav”><u>@1</u></span>
<img src=”https://www.microstrategy.com/graphics/Homepage/Feb05/icon_arrow_red.gif”>
<span onclick=”javascript:PortalPageNav(event,’/shared/attach rate/_portal/2attach rate’,'Sales View – Drill Down Level 2′)” class=”Nav”><u>@2</u></span>
<img src=”https://www.microstrategy.com/graphics/Homepage/Feb05/icon_arrow_red.gif”>
<span onclick=”javascript:PortalPageNav(event,’/shared/attach rate/_portal/2attach rate’,'Sales View – Drill Down Level 3′)” class=”Nav”><u>@3</u></span>
<img src=”https://www.microstrategy.com/graphics/Homepage/Feb05/icon_arrow_red.gif”>
<span onclick=”javascript:PortalPageNav(event,’/shared/attach rate/_portal/2attach rate’,'Sales View – Drill Down Level 4′)” class=”Nav”><u>@4</u></span>
<img src=”https://www.microstrategy.com/graphics/Homepage/Feb05/icon_arrow_red.gif”>
<span onclick=”javascript:PortalPageNav(event,’/shared/attach rate/_portal/2attach rate’,'Sales View – Drill Down Level 5′)” class=”Nav”><u>@5</u></span>

Apologies for any confusion, but breadcrumbs are confusing, please ping me or call me for this implemetation. I would be more than happy to help out on the implementation aspect.