Action Links in OBIEE 11g
Oracle’s OBIEE 11g now has the option to create an action link from an analysis, dashboard, KPI etc. which basically means you can add a link to direct the user elsewhere, within the OBI catalogue or to an external system or web page. The beauty is in the magic, where you can set an action link against a column value and if the value is shown in a table or a chart, the table or chart will trigger the action link.
Further to directing a user to another dashboard page, you can use the action links to set value in Dashboard Prompts, improving the users experience as the prompts have effectively been set for them. This blog post will demonstrate how these links can be set up.
Step 1
Build you critera, and when you are happy with the results, you are ready to start adding an Action Link
Step 2
From the criteria, select the drop down on the column, in this example “Total Sales Income”. Select “Column Properties”.
Step 3
Navigate to the “Ineraction” tab, you will notice you can add interactions to the column heading and to the value. In this example we concentrate on the Value, however, the heading works in just the same way.
Click the + sign to add the action link.
Step 4
Enter some text in the “Link text”, this will popup whenever the user clicks on the column value whether the presentation is in a table or chart.
Step 5
Choose the type of action link. In this example we will choose “Navigate to a Bi Content” as we are going to navigate to a page within our dashboards.
Step 6
select the location of BI content
Step 7
Fill in relevant information
Step 8
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