Report-Level Drill Paths and Hyperlinks

When the dashboard or space-level drill paths are not exactly what you want for a particular Visualizer report, you can create one or more custom drill paths for it. A drill path is normally associated with an attribute; however, if you show multiple attributes, you can have multiple drill paths

Drilling behavior follows this hierarchy:

• Dashboard-level drill-across links.
• Report-level drill paths as described in this topic.
• Space-level drill paths:
  • Drill maps defined at the space level. See Creating a Drill Map in the Infor Birst Administrator Guide.
  • Hierarchies in the dimensional model of the space. See Creating Hierarchies for Custom Times in the Infor Birst Modeler User Guide.
  • Built-in Time series drill paths.

As you click through drill paths in Visualizer, the nodes display across the top of reports. To see how drilling works in Visualizer see Drilling in Visualizer.

Drill paths create filters that apply across a dashboard. When a business user clicks to activate a drill path in the Dashboard filter, the filter card for that drill node appears.

For table reports, drill paths and hyperlinks are underlined in blue. Also, hovering over a hyperlink may display the link path in the browser, depending upon the browser's support for this functionality.