Tips & Tricks

OBIEE and Narrative – simple tile, in English

Displaying External Documents on an OBIEE Dashboard

Recently a client came up with a requirement to host externally-generated PDF reports in OBIEE and have them display alongside their other OBI content. They also wanted these files to be searchable by name like the rest of elements comprising the web catalog. To achieve...

analysis in Excel using SmartView and save in OBIEE catalog

Create an analysis in Excel using SmartView and save in OBIEE catalog Using SmartView add-in, we can create OBIEE reports from Excel/Word and save in OBIEE catalog.And we can see those reports within OBI Presentation services and can use it for further analysis. To create an OBIEE...

Custom No Data found Message in OBIEE 11g

When the results of an analysis return no data, the following default message is displayed to users: We can modify the No Results view, by adding custom message or more explanation on the use of report or hints on how to filter values.  We can also change...

OBIEE 11g Hide/Show Sections based on Dashboard Prompt

Recently I came across a customer requirement to allow a user’s interaction to hide/show certain sections of a dashboard. In this particular case the user wanted to choose either ‘Quarterly’ or ‘Monthly’ and the appropriate sections of a dashboard would be shown. To achieve this I...

OBIEE and tiles without Narrative

How was it done? I created a basic report: The last column has no meaning, we just need something to be in the measures part. In my case I decided to have a column of NULLs with space as a label. So I create a Pivot: And rearrange it: Now...

OBIEE and Narrative – Drill

One of the main problems of Narrative is the lack of drill options, what is called now "Navigate to BI Content". On the other hand, it can be easily achieved using basic scripts and GO URL. I will do a basic example, for more detail on...

Act as in OBIEE 11g

There will come a point in the lifecycle of an OBIEE deployment when one user will need to access another user’s account. This may be to cover whilst a colleague is on leave, or a support staff trying to reproduce a reported error. Password sharing aside,...

Bursting in BIP 11g

Bursting is a process of splitting data into blocks, generating documents/output for each block and delivering the documents/output to one or more destinations. The data for the report is generated by executing a query once and then splitting the data based on a key value (e.g....

Scheduling a Report in BIP 11g

Step 1: In the Administration page, Goto  System Maintenance à Scheduler Configuration. In the Scheduler Configuration page that appears, click Test Connection in the Database Connection section to check if the scheduler is configured properly. This should display the following message indicating the connection was successful. Step 2: In the Administration page, Goto DeliveryàEmail. Click on Add Server. Step 3: Select the report...