Often we are forced to find a solution to make our Web Intelligence reports more dynamic, because of a specific user need or for the purpose of sales demos. In this case we can add some interactivity to make our presentations livelier and more visually appealing.

In this post you will find some examples for achieving more dynamic WebI reports that don’t come with the out-of the-box WebI standard module:

1. Dynamic columns
2. Hiding and Unhiding blocks
3. Hiding and Unhiding blocks in sections

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Creating Web Intelligence reports is not the most challenging task for a BusinessObjects consultant, but it can be very time-consuming. Imagine your client asks you to create one document with 50 reports, and he’s not sure yet how the reports should look. How can you create all these reports and at the same time make sure that they’re easy to update?

That is indeed a very important question. Imagine you’ve already created the 50 reports, one in each tab, and your client suddenly decides that the label for totals should not be “Total (1000 EUR)” but rather “Thousand Euros”. And instead of this gray background you decided to use by default, the client would like to have their corporate blue.

What will happen if you didn’t think about it (or read this article) before? You’ll end up changing the 50 reports one by one. Ok, it shouldn’t take more than 60 or even 30 minutes, but you probably have a better use of your time, right?

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