Vertical Text in OBIEE
Great thing I found out this week. As so often a customer requested something, he wanted a text in a normal Pivot-table to have displayed vertical. While going through the different possibilities in OBIEE it did not come out to be makeable out-of-the-box. So, I looked around in the developers area and found something in the world of CSS. Just one hint before I show you how: this is only running for IE, because Firefox doesn't interpret filters.
Create a simple pivot-table and make sure you have the column you want to be displayed in it. When you are in the Pivot result view click on the value formatting of your column and add the following text to your CSS-window :
Writing-mode: tb-rl; filter: flipv fliph;
Your column content could look like that :
and your pivot similar to this one :
If you now add the above mentioned CSS in your format values screen
it looks like that in Microsoft Internet Explorer only.
It's not the perfect solution, simply because this is not running for Firefox, but it can help you in some cases, where the customer wants this kind of thing. Of course you can center the text by using the normal CSS- command text-align:center to the above stated CSS.
So long,
Andreas
BTW: as soon as I have a proper solution also for Firefox I'll let you know, am already in discussions with the Firefox-cracks @Trivadis.