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[19 May 2010 | 2 Comments | 6,358 views]

Hi Frens, Again came up with a new requirement and thought of sharing the same with you. My client asked me to wipe out the selected values in the Dashboard prompts when he navigates from one page to another on the dashboard. So, finally I found the following solution for the same. We need to [...]

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[16 May 2010 | 11 Comments | 8,823 views]

Hi Frens, Here I m back again… This time i have got a real nice thing with me ‘Hovering text in OBIEE columns‘. This requires HTML or Javascript coding in OBIEE column headers which is not permitted by default OBIEE config. So, to enable it, we need to insert the following tag in instanceconfig.xml file. [...]

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[6 May 2010 | 10 Comments | 10,953 views]

Hello, Day before we came across a new requirement in which we had to call a function created in Oracle DB to OBIEE. Thought of sharing the same with you. It is very simple if you know the trick. We made use of the EVALUATE function in OBIEE to call the function created in the [...]

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[15 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 4,071 views]

Hi Frens… Just came on with a requirement where in one of our connection pools was pointing to SQL Server and we had to move the RPD on Unix Box.  So, for that we had to make the DSN entries for SQL server on the Unix Box. Below is the series of steps that we followed [...]

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[6 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 5,553 views]

Often when we check the saw server log we see a number of files in that location named sawlog0.log to sawlogN.log and sawserver.out.log. These files contain the log of the SAW server or the presentation server. The sawserver.out.log is the current log file and contains SAW server log. When this is filled a new file [...]

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[31 Mar 2010 | 25 Comments | 21,866 views]

Hi Friends, There are many times when the clients ask for landing to a particular dashboard instead of the default My Dashboard. I came across this request too. So what i did is explained below. There are basically some approaches to it. 1)  Go to the settings -> My Account and set the Default Dashboard [...]

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[19 Mar 2010 | One Comment | 3,672 views]

Hi Friends.. Here i am back again with some stuff. Generally, when we run some reports the results get cached and we need to clear the cache for the report each and everytime when we run that report. This seems to be a tedious task when the RPD is in Online mode and we need [...]

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[10 Mar 2010 | 2 Comments | 2,553 views]

Hi friends, Sorry for not posting for a long time. I was stuck and was little busy with things. But have just taken out some time to write and share with the things i encountered. Today, I came acros a wierd scenerio wherein the filters didnt worked properly when we navigate from one report to another on [...]

Oracle Fusion »

[20 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 2,044 views]

Below is the pictorial view of the Oracle Fusion Middleware which also gives pictorial description of terminology as well as concepts of Oracle Fusion. Gains from Oracle Fusion While viewing the technical part of Oracle fusion one point which we can overlook is the gain which this tool will give us in the market. Whatever tools [...]

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[20 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 4,418 views]

This post has been contributed by Ankesh who is a reader of this blog.  He wants to share his views about Oracle Fusion. ——————————————————————————————————————————- Before we start with what oracle fusion really is and the magic it does let’s familiarize ourselves with the basic terminologies which we may have come across.