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Reports sent to users without logging in
Hello community,
I've come across a requirement where i need to send a report to 10 users who will never log into obiee. They are in 10 different market centers. I cannot set a session variable since they will not be logging in to run reports. The deliverable is an email report via agents to these 10 users. Is there a way to do this without the obvious way of creating 10 different versions of the report filtered to each market center and firing off 10 agents?
Has anyone come across this type of requirement in obiee?
Any recommendations are very much appreciated!!
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If they are not OBIEE users but just "named email adresses" then no - you will need 10 agents with 10 different execution contexts. The analysis can be a single one and you just use different values for "EMAIL is prompted".
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@Sunny Potturi Have you given up on this thread? Or were the responses you received sufficient?
Can you please update and if applicable close this thread? The community lives or dies with active participation and leaving threads as open orphans doesn't help other users. Thank you.
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Hi Christian,
are you sure on this, I thought there was a way to 'seed' e-mail addresses and security based on another report content, is that not so?
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Check MOS Doc ID 1082842.1
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Licensing aside back when I worked for a niche BI consultancy I was certain we included technical content doing what I described, not as a way around licensing, but as a feature that could be validly utilised.
In a similar fashion I once had 800 users all using the same login, not to avoid licenses, but to apply my own security which was more flexible than Oracle's own at that time.
In short, it may not be standard, but provided it is not utilised to avoid commercials it can be valid.
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Not saying one or the otehr myself - that's just Oracle's official statement ;-)
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No harm, no foul - surely?
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Nope. It was stricter with 10g but today you have certain ways to wiggle around it.
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You are telling me that in my 800 users scenario with the users all using one license Oracle would have had an issue with that?
That is funny - I did a road show for Oracle demonstrating that very functionality, they even filmed it...
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Depends - If you had a CPU license then the number of users doens't matter at all
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