There are alot of users that wish that reports within dashboards would not fire automatically once entering a dashboard or dashboard page. So what is the solution? There is a pretty good solution to this problem out there that uses the concept of guided navigation; but, it doesn’t work. On the surface it looks like [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Stop reports/queries from being automatically fired from dashboard
Posted in Presentation Services on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Drillable logical columns
Posted in Administration Tool, Presentation Services on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On a project recently, there arose an issue where logical columns that were not explicitly added to a hierarchy where suddenly drillable! What would cause that? Did someone change a property? After careful analysis, I found out that there are 2 things that will make logical columns (not explicitly set in a hierarchy level) become [...]
Migration Design of RPD From One Environment to the Next
Posted in Administration Tool on August 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Migration of OBIEE RPD from one environment to the next can be simple, just copy the RPD. But then one would have to manually open up the RPD afterwards in the target environment to change connection pool information, maybe AD server configuration and the list can go on. Pretty much each environment may necessitate changes [...]
Presentation Services Access Denied Issue
Posted in Presentation Services on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
During migration or copying of presentation web catalogs, some will no doubt come across this error for users when they log in: access denied for user to path/users/{username}/_portal/dashboard layout What this generally is saying is that the user does not have access to their dashboard or any dashboard. They could type ‘answers’ after the ‘?’ [...]
