Comments on: Variable Relative Block Positioning

By: Shiva

Shiva — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:43:41 +0000

Thanks for the quick response.

Regards,
Shiva

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:07:48 +0000

The technique involves checking to see if a block was empty. What I suggested was that for one graph it should continue to work the same way, but the other graph would have to check for both “above” blocks, and if both are empty (the situation outlined in a prior question) then it should not appear at all. That would prevent both “lower” blocks from showing up at the same time if both “upper” blocks were empty.

By: Shiva

Shiva — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:21:14 +0000

Hey Dave Thank you very much for sharing an ounce of knowledge from the Chunks you have.

My question… is not different.. its the same Wasi asked. I’m not able to understand your answer to Wasi. though the work around by Wasi works fine…. but i just want to avoid that Union.

Regards,
Shiva

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:09:04 +0000

Hi, deepak, and welcome to my blog. To answer your question, no, I have never tried to create waterfall charts with this technique.

By: deepak

deepak — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:36:21 +0000

Hi,

Ever tried waterfall charts using this trick??

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:47:32 +0000

Hi, Raja, if you have general questions not related to a blog post I suggest that you post on the community board BOB instead, thanks.

By: Raja

Raja — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:47:18 +0000

Can anybody tell me how to create a dummy variable in xi universe. What must be its select statement and where statement. I think it must be Character datatype.

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:41:45 +0000

Hi, JJ, and welcome to my blog. It’s great to see other solutions for any of the technical challenges being faced, so thanks for sharing your tip.

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:30:29 +0000

Dave,

My experience is primarily with Webi on XIr2 and above.

I’ve solved this problem in a different way. I create an empty section based on a dummy variable. As the blocks above push down, the section moves and moves the blocks below it.

Pseudocode:
Section 1
Block 1 Block 2
Section 2
/Section 2
Block 3 Block 4
section 3
/Section 3
Block 5
/section 1

Everything is part of section one, but the blocks are outside of Section 2 and Section 3

The downside to this is Webi isn’t really happy embedded sections. If you add a new one above, everything gets mashed together. Adding below is okay.

By: Wasi

Wasi — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:52:22 +0000

Thanks Dave, I found a work around. In one of the SQLs I add a union query with one blank record thus one block will always have some data.

Thanks