by Gianni Ceresa | 24 May 2017 | Under the hood
Some time ago I uploaded on GitHub the code to build Docker images for OBIEE 12c (all the current 3 releases). In the meantime, as Docker is now my main (and only with the exception of Sample Applications) way to execute OBIEE, I improved and fixed things around the...
by Gianni Ceresa | 15 March 2017 | Under the hood
Few days ago I wrote about Agents in OBIEE 12c and how it was possible to enable them by script, automating that part of the process which was still manual. This time I’m going to write about 2 examples of how I used my findings about Agents, providing the code...
by Gianni Ceresa | 13 March 2017 | Under the hood
Agents in OBIEE 12c and 11g, known as iBots back in OBIEE 10g, are a component of the BI platform providing few interesting things like pushing data to users instead of requiring users to connect and get it themselves, have alerts based on data to inform users about...
by Gianni Ceresa | 27 February 2017 | Under the hood
Some weeks ago I wrote about how to deploy a custom style in OBIEE 12c by using an EAR file. At that time, I said the EAR file was, for me, a better solution compared to the old classic analyticsRes shared folder as during a quick test I saw lot of 404 Not found...
by Gianni Ceresa | 17 January 2017 | Under the hood
While I was cropping a screenshot for the previous post about Time Series functions in OBIEE I discovered something new in OBIEE 12c I completely missed till now. In every logical level of a time dimension hierarchy (except for the grand total level) there is an extra...
by Gianni Ceresa | 17 January 2017 | Under the hood
Nothing better than a “light” topic as warm-up to start the new year : OBIEE Time Series functions (inspired by a thread on OTN forum of few days ago). Actually, it was a “light” topic and started growing while writing … The thread on OTN...
by Gianni Ceresa | 14 December 2016 | Under the hood
Customizing the OBIEE user interface is one of the most frequent activities when implementing OBIEE in a company. Not because you don’t like and don’t want to see it’s an Oracle tool but mainly because you want your users to “feel like at...
by Gianni Ceresa | 1 December 2016 | Integration
More and more often in an OBIEE you need a custom folder where to place javascript and CSS files like drawing/charting libraries (D3js, Oracle JET etc.), a custom style for OBIEE or just any file (business documentation for example) you want to make available in the...
by Gianni Ceresa | 23 November 2016 | Hacks
With the last release of Oracle Data Visualization Desktop 12c, 12.2.2.0.0 to be precise in October 2016, one of the new feature is the ability to develop custom plugins to add new visualizations or customize the interface. Tutorials and videos have been published by...
by Gianni Ceresa | 18 October 2016 | Integration
Some days ago, in the MOS OBIEE forum on OTN, I walked into a thread of a user struggling with displaying a Google Map with a marker on an analysis. Of course the marker had to be dynamic based on an address returned by the analysis itself. As the reference used by...
