Thursday, 28 June 2012

Hierarchy in Answers

Hierarchies can be created in the RPD and viewed in the answer report. Hierarchies plays an important role in OBIEE to see the drill down hierarchy order. In RPD hierarchy is created according to the requirement and viewed accordingly in the answers.
Here in my case, I will show you the case of creating a hierarchy based report from the answers directly. But remember this is not a hierarchy columns created from the RPD Hierarchy.
And you need to remember that the values into the column should be in the order of the hierarchy that is to be displayed on the page.
NOTE- Only dimension columns seems to work fine without fact columns.
So, this structure can be used to display a certain hierarchy level without the means of fact columns.

In the report, drag the dimension column which contains the values to be displayed in hierarchial order.

Add a second dummy column in the report with the HTML Data format enabled. Add the mentioned column formula to stimulate the required changes using HTML. I am adding a default RED color to display behind the word.



And view the report and save it.



Comments are Welcome..

Wednesday, 27 June 2012

OBIEE 11g- Action Link Menu

OBIEE 11g provides a good feature to show the links in drop down. This option can come into picture when we are navigating to a separate report/page/web pages etc.
This reduces the dashboard complexity by displaying more links on the page and consuming the space in the page. We can open the new analysis in the same window or to a new window.
So lets get into a simple Action Link Menu creation.

In the dashboard page, edit and drag the Action Link Menu object into the dashboard.

You can find the properties to add to the Action Link Menu


Clicking on the Green (+) symbol will give the number of separate links to be navigated.



I am preferring to provide Google and OTN navigation from these links.



Save the page settings and click on the Links Menu and you will find the sub menus attached.





Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Time to move to OBIEE 11g

Time to move to OBIEE 11g... Yes, browsing through found a link guiding me through the support extended by Oracle Team to its products.
Oracle has established itself strongly on many products and continuing to do so. The support extended to its products is mentioned in the pdf doc mentioned below-
http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-middleware-069163.pdf
OBIEE related support is provided in the 14th page and is useful to all the teams running their application on the respective versions. So after checking the Premier support period for OBIEE 10g, we need to be cautious and start with the plans to upgrade the existing OBIEE 10g versions to OBIEE 11g version.

Providing a screenshot of the 14th page for your information-


People move on....