Add a new skin to an OBIEE scaled out cluster
If you are using a cluster configuration, there are multiple methods you can use to deploy a skin. Below details a method which results in a single shared resource location that each member of the...
View ArticleShare a Single MDS Schema Between Multiple OBIEE Installations
If you’ve installed OBIEE as many times as I have you’ll be more than familiar with the RCU and the two schemas it creates, MDS and BIPLATFORM. What you may not know, howerver, is that the MDS schema...
View ArticleDowngrade an OBIEE RPD Version
An RPD file saved by one version of the OBIEE Administration Tool cannot be opened by an older version of the OBIEE Administration Tool or be applied to an older version of an Oracle BI Server. For...
View ArticleJavascript to Refresh All OBIEE Dashboard Analysis
OBIEE isn’t designed for (near) real time reporting, and as such doesn’t have an out of the box page refresh option. There are times when I’ve needed a dashboard to be refreshed – when looking at query...
View ArticleExport OBIEE RPD Documentation (Data Lineage) From The Command Line
The OBIEE Administration Tool provides a useful utility for exporting the data lineage held within the RPD to a CSV file. The linage is pretty comprehensive and covers everything from Presentation...
View ArticleOBIEE With Essbase as a Data Source Using SSO
Get Social!There are various ways to integrate OBIEE and Essbase when using SSO, each with their own security specifics and implementation difficulty. The three main ways of SSO authentication between...
View ArticleOBI formatting grand totals – without XML!
Get Social!Recently I needed to have some conditionally formated grand total rows in OBI. I remember years ago hacking around with the XML which is far from ideal. I then realised it could be done...
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