I am new to OBIEE but I have had cosiderable experience working with oracle reports. I loved the dynamism of oracle reports because I could play with the page heights and width as I wished. However, I have run into an obstacle with OBIEE in that the items are squeezed to fit the width of the report depending on the layout chosen. Is there a way to bypass the default size ?
First of all if you're using OBIEE then you're using analyses,not reports. If you're really using report and want something reminiscent of Oracle Reports it's rather BI Publisher. Its a separate tool and technology but it comes integrated with OBIEE. That said OBIEE is analytics. BI Publisher is pixel-perfect reporting. Huge difference.
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We are planning a migration of an Oracle Forms and report 6i application to 12c, and at the same time we will upgrade to the latest version of Oracle (from 10g to 12c).
I would like to know the steps that we can follow, or from where to start?
Is there anything that we must consider before doing this? Any problems that we might encounter?
Any information whatsoever would be helpful !
I just recently did this exact thing.
You'll want to use the Forms migration assistant to do the heavy lifting. Copy your FMB files somewhere and run the assistant against them. Then open the FMB's in 12c and convert the 2 tier commands to 3 tier (like HOST to CLIENT_HOST (using webutil), etc) and you also may want to look for other enhancements that can be made using 12c specific code over 6i (file operation handling, reports, external link handling, etc)
Im new to oracle multidimensional models...
I have followed the "Creating a Multidimensional Model" 15 min Oracle tutorial. Tutorial Link
Note: This tutorial use sql developer data modeler.
I would like to know how to query the created data cube using SQL Developer (I.E. using regular SQL DML statements). Every time I look for information online I end up getting links on how to use the Oracle Analytic Workspace Manager. Why? I would like to just build the cube and query it without having to make use of the Oracle Analytic Workspace Manager.
I would appreciate if somone could let me know if I am missing some steps. (a short simple example would be nice)
Thanks in advance.
I realize you asked this in August 2013, but in case it still helps you or others, as of Feb 2014, SQL Developer has an OLAP extension which seems to be what you were looking for...
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/downloads/sqldev-releasenotes-v4-1925251.html
The OLAP extension enables you to use the familiar environment of SQL
Developer to create and manage dimensional objects in Oracle Database
12c Release 1 (12.1.0.1.0) or higher. Oracle OLAP provides advanced
multidimensional analytic capabilities and storage within the
database, including excellent query performance, fast incremental data
updates, efficient management of summary data, and rich analytic
content, such as time series calculations and both additive and
nonadditive aggregations.
We are planning to create crystal reports on QC 10. I was wondering if there is any built-in support in QC 10 for crystal report. I will like to you know the best way to use crystal reporting in QC 10.
Is such thing possible or is there a recommended workaround to that?
Thanks for any help!
The examples I have seen use the ActiveX controls to connect things up. Since the data is all stored in a SQL Server instance, you could technically hit the DB directly (if you know the table structure). Here's a forum thread on the HP site dealing with exactly that kind of solution: http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ITRC-Quality-Center-Forum/Connection-between-QC-and-Crystal-Reports/td-p/4627218
I used some reporting platforms ( SAP Business Objects and some other third party applications). I have pl-sql experience but I am new to Oracle BI.
At this point, I have some questions which confuses my mind.
First one is there are lots of terminology in Oracle BI but I do not know which products should I know, or in which order I can learn and experience these platforms.
For example you can create dashboards, analysis by Oracle BI. Terms/products like Essbase, Hyperion, Warehouse Builder, ODI etc.
My second question is :
I want to install Oracle 11g and Oracle BI 11 in the same pc. But I hearded and read on some forums that they are not working on the same computer. But I want to setup BI tool to my personal computer for practicing in my home. How can I install these two products in my pc? ( My pc is 64 bit)
Thanks&Regards
Just dot it ;-)
http://gerardnico.com/wiki/dat/obiee/installation_11.1
You can have a database and obiee on the same machine.
Cheers
Nico
You need to install Oracle DB 11g followed by the latest OBIEE 11g installation. (note that you need to install RCU before you proceed with the OBIEE 11g install). You can get both of them from otn.oracle.com. The Install documentation can guide you in the entire setup; and hopefully there should be no surprises.
After that, install the Sample App and follow the instructions to create new analysis, dashboards etc. After this, am sure you will be upto speed with the terminologies and the workflows.
Check this post on wiki - should give you basic understanding on OBIEE stack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Business_Intelligence_Suite_Enterprise_Edition
you mentioned Warehouse Builder - Oracle steering away from it, so ODI will be a choice of ETL tool.
You have a long journey ahead of you for OBIEE so, sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. You want to start with the BI Foundation which includes BI Server and Answers, before moving on to products like Essbase, Hyperion, Warehouse Builder, ODI etc.
I would start by
Doing a simple install of OBIEE. I prefer Linux but you can use Windows as well. 8GB would be nice. Each of the following has a graphical install wizard which guides you through the choices.
a. Install the DB
b. Run the RCU
c. Install OBIEE
d. Install BI Admin tool for creating or modifying the repository
Do some tutorials provided by Oracle. I would start with the following and in this order.
a. Creating a Repository Using the Oracle BI 11g Administration Tool - MANDATORY if you are a serious OBIEE professional
b. Creating Analyses and Building Dashboards - For Adhoc Analysis - Important
c. Getting Started with Oracle BI Publisher - OPTIONAL - If you care for published or printed reports or for some quick and dirty reporting, without having to create a model in the repository.
You want to avoid these common mistakes if you are installing on Windows.
You can install Oracle 11g ad Oracle BI in the same machine without any issue.
As far as the second question is concerned, you can create your reports with the knowledge of only Oracle BI , pl/sql and 11g. Pl/Sql is required to writhe pre and post procesors for the report. ESS will only be required to schedule the report and as such you won't require it in the learning phase. You can learn it later
We have an issue with the HTML produced from the Oracle BI publishing engine, in that the pages are not rendering properly in IE6. The issue is that of tables having their row heights hard coded, meaning that cells with multiple lines of text in them only display the first line, despite the fact that all data is present in the HTML source.
To clarify, all pages look fine when viewed in IE7 or above, and Firefox. The upgrade to IE8 is on its way (thank god), but not for another 6 months or so, so we need to find a temporary fix if possible.
Firstly, does anybody know if it is possible to enable some kind of IE6 compatibility mode on Oracle BI publisher through the Java APIS? (a long shot really I know).
Secondly, the transformation produced by the Oracle BI templates is an XLS-FO style sheet. Our plan B here is to manually edit this file to produce the desired output. I would assume it should be possible in here to try and set the heights of rows to be auto decided (or just not fixed), but so far to no avail, with the default "just one row" being displayed again.
Does anyone have any experience / advice with either Oracle BI and IE6, or tables in XSL-FO with cell heights expanding to match content in IE6?
Any help / advice is very appreciated!
The solution to this issue it appears, was to downgrade the Oracle BI Publisher version that we were using. We are currently using version 11g, which according to documentation supports IE7 and 8, not IE6.
Version 10.134 on the other hand supports IE6 and 7. Downgrading the Java APIs to this version resulted in HTML that was IE6 compliant. Whilst in normal circumstances this would not be ideal, for our scenario 10.134 was already being used elsewhere in the business, and was proven to be stable in a live environment. In an ideal world, IE6 should have been updated, but unfortunately you can't win them all!