OBIEE 12c Visual Analyzer links in Analytics

user8093051

Hi All,

We have upgraded OBIEE 11g to  12.2.1.1.0 and since we don't have the Visual Analyzer licence, the permission va.author was deleted from BIAuthor role in EM. As expected, no one can access VA, but why on the Analytic Home page, in the left section > Create > Data Exploration & Discovery > Visual Analyzer Projects still appearing? There is also a link to VA in the <NEW> dropdown menu in header.

I was thinking that if we can't access a tool, we're not supposed to have a link to that tool right?

Thx

Phil

3310714

Hi,

How were you able to delete the va.author permission?  When I access the application policies in Enterprise Manager, the Delete button is disabled for me. 

[Deleted User]

He meant "remove it from the assigned app policies"

3310714

Hi Christian,

Yes, I think he meant remove it from the application policy.  What I meant is in my application policy, I'm not able to remove it because the Delete button is disabled.  I'm logged in as "weblogic".  So I was curious how he was able to do it.

[Deleted User]

WLST

3425149

see this article https://blogs.oracle.com/pa/obiee-12c%3a-how-to-revokegrant-data-visualizations-permissions-using-wlst

user8093051

Hi,

Yes, WLST to revoke the grant to VA, but I haven't found how to remove the link from Analytics, any thoughts? Users asks why they can't access the tool, I don't want them to see it in the first place!

Thx

[Deleted User]

Yeah that's a bug right now. It just stays there. Do you really need to get rid of it? quite hacky at the moment...

mac2

Hello,

We had the same goal to remove all traces of Visual Analyzer since we aren't licensed for it. I accomplished this in two steps (version 12.2.1.2.0):

1) Ran revokeEntitlement(appStripe="obi", principalClass="oracle.security.jps.service.policystore.ApplicationRole",principalName="BIAuthor",entitlementName="va.author") from wlst as others have mentioned.

2) Installed Patch 24961623: BICS12C: BICONTENTAUTHOR USER SHOULD NOT CREATE VA REPORTS (HANDLE IN BI HOMEUI) which removes it from the "Home" screen and the "New" menu.              

[Deleted User]

Nice to hear that they finally patched that.

@Gianni Ceresa had an alternative solution - Gianni could you put yours here for future reference?

Gianni Ceresa

The idea is just to add some CSS rules to the custom style deployed (or to deploy one for that if not already done) and hide these elements by CSS.

For example for the "new" menu something like:

body > div.masterMenu.HeaderPopupWindow > div.ScrollablePanelScroller > div > div:nth-child(1),body > div.masterMenu.HeaderPopupWindow > div.ScrollablePanelScroller > div > div:nth-child(2) {     display: none;}

Is supposed to work....