community, kscope

The ODTUG KScope16 speaker evaluations just arrived in my inbox and I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude to everyone who came to listen to my sessions and for their magnificent feedback.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart – this is why I do these conferences!

Thanks also to everyone from ODTUG and all my friends from the community. I hope to see you all next year in San Antonio for KScope17.

12c, dashboard, OBI, obiee

A new functionality has been introduced in the latest release of OBI – 12.2.1.1.0 – which has gone a bit unnoticed since it hasn’t been included in the documentation anywhere. This is surprising since it’s been requested since a long time.

Dashboard subpages!

As of this release the usual 3-level dashboard hierarchy has been transformed into a 4-level one:

  • Dashboard group
  • Dashboard
  • Dashboard page
  • Dashboard subpage

dashboard sub-pages

Configuration is very straight-forward. Just click the usual “Add” button which will give you two options as of now:

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admin, answers, OBI, obiee

Working on a system without full access can often be a pain and prevent you from being able to get information necessary for your work. One of those areas is access to system variables. Good thing is. that bits and pieces are flying around all over the web and can be found for example both Oracle’s own SampleApp or this little gist here from @rmoff.

I’ve started mixing and matching together as much as possible of “things you can potentially get out of the system” without having anything else than Answers access and combined it into a single analysis. You can find the gist here. To put it into your system all you need to do is create a new analysis, copy over the XML and reference any of your Subject Areas (two locations; top and bottom of the file). Doesn’t matter which one as long as it parses correctly. Not a single query against actual data sources is run.

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I’ll keep adding to this and expand it with whatever hack I can find to circumvent the pesky “you’re not an Admin” situations.

sysvars