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...
by Gianni Ceresa | 11 October 2016 | Community
This is my contribution for the OTN Appreciation Day, an idea of Tim Hall. It’s difficult (almost impossible) for me to find my favourite feature of an Oracle tool. I can easily say OBIEE is my favourite tool, but can hardly choose a feature as being my...
by Gianni Ceresa | 19 September 2016 | Infrastructure
Last week I posted about having OBIEE running in Docker. It works fine and easy to do but the database wasn’t included, so it was up to you to provide one (could be one already running somewhere on your LAN, a new VM or also a docker container as well). Not a...
by Gianni Ceresa | 12 September 2016 | Infrastructure
UPDATE 13.09.2016: The files are now available on GitHub, https://github.com/gianniceresa/docker-images Last week I wanted to test something (will come in a future post) and for that I needed a clean install of OBIEE 12.2.1.1.0. Started looking around the many VMs I...
by Gianni Ceresa | 1 August 2016 | Under the hood
There are situations when all you want is just to have 2 Y-axes on your chart, mainly because of the different nature of the information on the screen. Like for example full figures like revenue or quantity sold and ratios like the average number of items per order or...
