Archive for the 'Business Intelligence' Category
OBIEE Events Calendar
First of all Kudos to Hitesh for laying the ground work: http://hiteshbiblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/obiee-showing-data-on-calendar.html
No commentsOBIEE Naming Conventions – Presentation Layer
This Article is only a guideline to an OBIEE naming convention for the repository. The most important aspect of a naming convention is that you use it consistently. The used naming convention should be readable for any future development.
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OBIEE Naming Conventions – Business Model Layer
This Article is only a guideline to an OBIEE naming convention for the repository. The most important aspect of a naming convention is that you use it consistently. The used naming convention should be readable for any future development.
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OBIEE Naming Conventions – Physical Layer
This Article is only a guideline to an OBIEE naming convention for the repository. The most important aspect of a naming convention is that you use it consistently. The used naming convention should be readable for any future development.
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OBIEE using display folders
Most repositories have a natural tendency to grow in the time they are “alive”. For the Physical and Business layer OBIEE has the option of using display folders:
Which is a nice way to organise your stuff and most of all to have it look more “professional”
These folder only contain shortcuts to the “base” material.
So let’s start organizing our stuff 
Till Next Time
No commentsOBIEE Start reading on graphs!
OBIEE 11g is coming!
We don’t no when, but we do know that the increase in graphical possibility’s will be HUGE!.
In that lays a huge danger, developers have a natural tendency to try out all options, and even worse give all the options to their clients often resulting in very “colourful” dashboards.
If you are coming from OBIEE 10G and want to prep for 11g you might want to catch up on some reading on how to make good graphs, instead of only colourful graphs!
For several years the books of Stephen Few: (http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/) where considered as the one and only standard. Certainly he was one of the first to write things down: (Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data ) This is still a must read for every Dashboard developer.
Recently a new book has arrived “The wall street journal guide to information graphics” by Dona M. Wong. Personally I find this easier to read then the Stephen Few book. I like the setup where on the left page there is a “bad” example and on the right side there is a “good” example. Another good feature of the book is the statistical “brush-up” chapter.
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No commentsOBIEE ATR files (reports).
The ATR files in the OBIEE repository manage privileges on a item and provide a “readable” text for both the name and description of an object. Dan Malone of Calpoly did some basic research on how these work.
This article describe the build up of the ATR file when used for a report.
WOW: backup the files before you start to hack them, one misplaced byte can really f*&^k up your system!
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OBIEE Reset OC4J Admin password
Didn’t I read about this in several other blogs you might ask. Well you are right there. It probably started with the guys from carpe diem: http://carpediemconsulting.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/resetting-the-oc4j-password-in-obiee/ And since all the others copied there article from them nobody noticed they didn’t clear the security cache. Here is the version from the original documentation:
Stop OC4J and the Application Server Control.