Oracle BI Publisher Excel Template Connecting Parent And Child Nodes - excel

Question

I have one main data set for project list that contains "Project ID" columb and multiple child sets for different information for each project with "Project ID" and "Value" columns. Data sets connect via Project ID column. my bi publisher data model looks like this
My goal is to create table below.
the table I need to
When I use report editor of BI Publisher and apply following steps;
Insert a table
Add Project ID as first column from "main" data set.
Add Value columns from child data sets.
it worked perfectly fine and matched project id of every value and project id of main data set.
But I need to use excel templated but I cant get same table using excel template. I tried couple of repeating section combination, non of them work.
How do I connect child nodes to parent for each row?
Because of confidential reasons, I cant share screenshots and don't have any copy of template.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Not sure how you have your data structure/XML set up. Or why you can't update the SQL on the dataset to combine the data there, but these may help:
Option 1
<?for-each:PROJECT?>
<?xdoxslt:set_variable($_XDOCTX, 'v_PROJECT', PROJECT_ID)?>
<?for-each:DATASET_1/RECORD?>
<?if:xdoxslt:get_variable($_XDOCTX,'v_PROJECT')=PROJECT_ID?>
<?VALUE?>
<?end if?>
<?end for-each?>
<?end for-each?>
Option 2
<?for-each:PROJECT?>
<?xdoxslt:set_variable($_XDOCTX, 'v_PROJECT', PROJECT_ID)?>
<?for-each:DATASET_1/RECORD[PROJECT_ID = xdoxslt:get_variable($_XDOCTX,'v_PROJECT')]?>
<?VALUE?>
<?end for-each?>
<?end for-each?>

Answer 2

Thank you for your help, I couldn't share any screen shot or code before because I didn't have any in my PC. But I setup BI Publisher to my PC and try to recreate sample data.
My data set
What I am trying to was creating a table like this
Table I want to create
This is my what xdo_metadata sheet looks like.
XDO_?XDOFIELD2? <?NAME?>
XDO_?XDOFIELD2? <?TASK_COUNT?>
XDO_?XDOFIELD3? <?TASK_COUNT?>
XDO_?XDOFIELD4? <?TASK_COUNT?>
XDO_GROUP_?XDOG1? <xsl:for-each select=".//PROJECT">
But it didnt work as I expected. It created a table like below
Output in first try
I found out why it didnt work, Beacuse I used same aliases for the all value columns.
Later I tried the change xdo_metadata with parent node before field names and it works perfectly fine;
XDO_?XDOFIELD2? <?NAME?>
XDO_?XDOFIELD2? <?./SET1/TASK_COUNT?>
XDO_?XDOFIELD3? <?./SET2/TASK_COUNT?>
XDO_?XDOFIELD4? <?./SET3/TASK_COUNT?>
XDO_GROUP_?XDOG1? <xsl:for-each select=".//PROJECT">
I guess using unique aliases in the each query like TASK_COUNT1,TASK_COUNT2,TASK_COUNT3 would work too.
I hope it will help those who will have problems in the future.