Guess Access to BIP reports in OAS

SiddharthDang-Oracle

Summary:

Need Access to reports without login for BIP reports.

Content (required):

We have a requirement where we have to generate BIP reports as part of external application output. However, the reports are always in online mode and need to be generated at runtime. Once the user requests the report, it should be generated from DB without asking for login credentials.

What I understood from the ORACLE documents is Guest Mode is not supported with OAS. So is there a way to access reports without the user entering any credentials?

Version (include the version you are using, if applicable):

OAS 6.4

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ALOK SH-Oracle

HI Siddarth,

Can you please check if this will help.

https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/12212/bip/BIPAD/GUID-9CA704F1-CB19-404F-9CD8-0069E3D4E2EB.htm#BIPAD199

SiddharthDang-Oracle

Hi Alok,

I already went through this. This says it is not supported. That's why i am looking for alternatives.

Regards,

Siddharth Dang

ALOK SH-Oracle

Yes ,Guest access is not supported when Publisher uses a shared catalog or is installed with Oracle Analytics Server. Guest access is not supported with Single Sign-On.

Option is not coming .

Standalone i will come.

SiddharthDang-Oracle

@ALOK SH-Oracle any alternative to this?

Regards,

Siddharth Dang

Santa_B-Oracle

We can send email through agent ? would that suffice ?

SiddharthDang-Oracle

The Customer requirement is to access reports generated via BIP without login. We are embedding the report link into the report itself using a QR code. Since guest access is not possible, we are looking for alternatives to expose the report using a document management system.

Regards,

Siddharth Dang

Gianni Ceresa

Guest access means no license access, this is also going to be an issue in case of audit of your licensing usage.

OAS doesn't have that anymore because OAC doesn't have that, and OAS comes from OAC in the end.

There are webservices that allows to integrate the OAS services in other tools, that's about how far you can go for a real-time execution of your report. The "classic" OAS has all the services needed for this, BIP not sure (I never looked at the web services it does expose).

If you don't want to use the web service approach you will lose the real-time execution and it will batched mode: you can refresh your report every X minutes/hours and generate it somewhere (SFTP, document store etc.) where consumers can access it. It will not be live data but X minutes/hours old data.