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Why scheduling is not an easy task in OBIEE 11g?

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Rank 5 - Community Champion

Hi All,

I was trying to schedule the BI Reports(Analysis and dashboard) in OBIEE 11g. I am not getting any output from the Agent for the analysis which is having Prompts. Mail services is also not working.

Also I felt Creating Agent is a typical task for End User to do that. And it is not prompting for the filter before the agent runs.

At the same time, Scheduling in BI Publisher is altogether different and Easy for the End user to schedule any Reports.

Is there any proper document or easy guide to do scheduling in OBIEE 11g. Please help

thanks,

Abinash

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  • Rank 10 - Analytics Guru

    "is not an easy task" - very subjective because id things are configured correctly and used properly then it's very easy actually.

    This is the documentation: Delivering Content

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     And it is not prompting for the filter before the agent runs.

    How do you want that to happen? When something runs at 2am in the morning you expect a pop-up window to appear....where exactly? And would you want that pop-up to stay there until someone selects something?

    Best read up on how Agents actually work and function and then think about your requirement again.

  • Rank 8 - Analytics Strategist

    Are there error messages in your log files?  Did you set up Agents according to official documentation for your version?

  • Rank 10 - Analytics Guru

    Thanks for the "Helpful" but it would be nice of you to actually comment on our input., Your question isn't really a technical question with a "Yes/No" answer so for the benefit of other forum users - please participate in the discussion you have started.

  • Rank 5 - Community Champion

    Hi Christian,

    Thanks for your comments. It really helped me to start with Agent in OBIEE 11g.

    Actually in my case, the end user wants to schedule the reports due to some performance related issues because of huge data, so that they can go offline from obiee and will get the report through mail as an attachment. And the reports are having dashboard and Analysis Prompts. So my questions will be is it possible to have the pop-up window asking for Prompts before they run the agent.?

    The users can run the Agent in business hour and they can get the output within 1-2 hours. Because some reports are their which takes around 1 hour and user doesn't want to wait with the Online web browser till output gets generated. So they want this scheduling option be available.

    Thanks,

    Abinash

  • Rank 10 - Analytics Guru

    Ok as I thought. The actual requirement is nothing that should EVER be done with OBIEE. That's something which should be delivered either directly from the database or - at the utmost - via BI Publisher.

    And: No you will never get a popup. Ever. You can set filter context when you use analyses but for dashboard pages or whole dashboards it uses actual context of the prompts.

  • Rank 8 - Analytics Strategist

    +1 to Mr. Berg ...

    Absolutely not the intent of OBIEE ... OBIEE is all about getting the summarized answer to the screen so business person can act/decide confidently and accurately.

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