OBIEE Analytics Search for reports/dashboards/objects

Tobias Schavon

Hi,

Does anyone know a better way to label/tag the dashboards/reports (or other objects) in a way that a user can search for them?

The search function right now (at the top of the page or advanced tab) only takes one word at a time or all words in the correct order (dashboard name or the description).

Having a description like: "organization sales". If a user writes "sales organization", nothing shows up.

I have been googling and found for example: https://debaatobiee.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/javascript-in-obiee-to-search-a-report-and-custom-data-format/ .

But this would require us to manually add everything we want to be searchable in a table. I also found something called "Fully Integrated Full-Text Search". Would this solve the problem? And could it be solved without?

We have made a dashboard with different tabs/subtabs where include dashboards and other objects in a structured way. To simplify it for the users. Maybe we can do something here? Thought of making an own search using javascript. But the different tabs are not "open" at the same time.

Any ideas/suggestions would be very appreciate!

Kind regards,

Tobias Schavon

[Deleted User]

Hi Tobias,

You mean this? https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/bi.1111/e10544/mancat.htm#BIEUG10656

Edit: clicked too quickly. It's something you configure: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/bi.1111/e10541/prescatadmin.htm#BIESG2877

And 12c: Configuring the Catalog

Tobias Schavon

Hi Christian,

Thanks for the reply!

Yes, exactly. I am not able to completly understand it. Would it be possible to limit this search so it doesnt return exactly everything. Like if we search for Organization A it returns every dashboard, analysis, prompt that has an attribute or even data that have that word? And would this actually fix the problem. So it possible to have a dashboard description like "AAA BBB" and the user search for "BBB AAA".

I am sorry if it states it pretty clear in the texts you linked but having a hard time grasping the practical outcome.

Kind regards,

Tobias Schavon

[Deleted User]

The normal search which is based on the catalog crawler is a pure, direct string search. Presumably the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search extends that but as the doc states it's an additional product.

So probably you're stuck with what you have, sorry.