Convert an Oracle date to a more user friendly format in the repository
A common problem is that dates in Oracle by default and in OBIEE display everything including the minutes and seconds, users usually ask to remove that. They also ask to sometimes display only the month in a more friendly way
This is one solution in the repository using Evaluate function and the popular to_char function
Solution 1: Displaying daet as a Month
USING
EVALUATE
cast(Evaluate('to_char(%1,%2)',"Inventory"."Catalog"."dbo"."Dim_W_DAY_D_Inv_Unallocated_Run_Month"."CALENDAR_DATE",'YYYYMon')
as varchar(10))
cast(Evaluate('to_char(%1,%2)',<<COLUMN
HERE>>,'YYYY-Mon') as varchar(10))
results
Solution 2: Getting rid of the minutes/seconds
Simply change the format in the physical layer
