OBIEE 12c Dashboard Page and Subpages

[Deleted User]

I am trying to create a consistent template across all subpages of a Dashboard Page.

Has anyone figured how to move a subpage to a different Page.  Copying and Pasting a subpage in catalog makes it page, losing reference to the parent page.

Thanks

W

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You can achieve this by copy paste in Catalog folders:

1) Copy & move the Sub page(dashboard) out, to a different location.

2) delete the sub page(dashboard)

3) Create the sub page(dashboard)  with the same name in a different parent tab

4) Copy paste the original moved out sub page(dashboard)  to the catalog location

Hope this helps.

Gianni Ceresa

Oh ... missed the question when originally posted

In the front-end there isn't a visual way (the above workaround is one of the cheating), editing the XML of the dashboard layout is also a way which works well ...

[Deleted User]

Hi Wayne,

The problem is in how the XML is constructed. The page only becomes a subpage by a change in grouping. It's not a standalone object type per se.

Don't have the example handy but when you create a page and then make it a subpage its core xml doesnt really change but it becomes a subpage implicitly due to a change in parent.

Gianni Ceresa

Everything is in the "dashboard layout" file.

A simple 2 pages dashboard :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><sawd:dashboard xmlns:sawd="com.siebel.analytics.web/dashboard/v1.1" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" style="" fitContent="true" xmlVersion="200810300">  <sawd:dashboardPageRef path="page 1" type="catalog" hidden="false" />  <sawd:dashboardPageRef path="page 2" type="catalog" hidden="false" /></sawd:dashboard>

When adding a sub-page to "page 1", a group is created and "page 1" become a sub-page itself :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><sawd:dashboard xmlns:sawd="com.siebel.analytics.web/dashboard/v1.1" xmlns:saw="com.siebel.analytics.web/report/v1.1" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" style="" fitContent="true" xmlVersion="200810300">  <sawd:dashboardPageGroup id="pg_c5ab4b200bd0505e">    <saw:caption>      <saw:text>page 1</saw:text>    </saw:caption>    <sawd:dashboardPageRef path="page 1" type="catalog" hidden="false" />    <sawd:dashboardPageRef path="subpage 1.1" type="catalog" hidden="false" />  </sawd:dashboardPageGroup>  <sawd:dashboardPageRef path="page 2" type="catalog" hidden="false" /></sawd:dashboard>

Pages aren't aware of their status (page or sub-page), only "dashboard layout" has the info.

The only thing I'm not sure about if you do the job by hand is the impact of the "id" attribute for the dashboardPageGroup if you just make a random one. Can maybe have an impact when saving customisations, don't guess there are other side effects (as long as it's unique inside the same "dashboard layout").

[Deleted User]

Thats what I meant but obviously dont have all the info on my phone while driving somewhere :-P