OBIEE 12c - Commentary in analyses

User_ZZQJ0

OBIEE 12c

Is there some way to add commentary on dashboards or reports. The purpose would be to explain some metric/KPI on the dashboard or report. The commentary would persist after exiting the report dashboard.

cesar.advincula.o

check it out:

https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/03/chitchat-commentary-made-simple/

rmoff

OBIEE commentary in 12c is same as earlier versions. What research have you done so far?

Gianni Ceresa

The "historical" solution for collaborations and comments is BITeamwork (OBIEE Commenting & Annotation Tool | Collaborate with BITeamwork ).

The Rittman Mead ChitChat came a lot later.

If you use elements of OSSM (scorecards) you have a native commenting solution.

If you look into SampleApp you see some other "home made" examples, using OBIEE writeback (the worst IMO) or APEX (easiest).

User_ZZQJ0

Thanks Gianni for your helpful answer.

John_K

We've used APEX in the past, you just need to make sure your APEX application is resilient to URL injection attacks etc with it being hosted separately. On that last note, you'll need to configure your APEX HTTP listener to work cross domains if you are hosting APEX on a different server and want to use AJAX requests to the APEX engine. A nice way to do it is to use jQuery-UI and pop up the Apex window using a dialog box.