Visual Analyzer...no way to share or export visuals?

Question

Started playing around with VA on-premise in 12c and there does not appear to be any functionality for exporting/saving the analysis as a PDF, image, excel, etc.? Unless I am missing a secret menu somewhere?  There is not even a button to share the link automatically and send to e-mail for example.  It would appear the only way is for someone else to see your analysis is to login to VA themselves and open your project.

As of now without this functionality the tool would basically be useless for my organization.  Any insights?

jepva · Answer

Thanks..that is my observations as well.  Tableau is not really an option as no semantic layer and not a fan of the desktop model.  I like the promise of VA, it can use existing subject areas and curated content, but not including at least a basic sharing/export functionality is ridiculous!

1032872 · Answer

Hi Jepva

In a nutshell its a half baked tool. ( why Oracle did that not sure)

As per my experience with VA

YES:

1. Create your own reports /projects and add as many as your views into it .

2. Inbuilt map and blockmap available in the VA

Cant think of much because ideally you can do almost everything in Answers which you can do in VA

NO:

1. You cannot do conditional formating in VA (but have to use the colors sections in some views to generate it)

2. You cant create a dashboard and push it to answers or you cant use the VA projects to built a dashboard in answers

3. You can save but the end user will see the same screen as what you are seeing . No difference in appearance even if it is just a OPEN and TRAVERSE given. They can change the columns but cant save it

4. You cant export the VA projects . its just like ANALYZE then and there

5. Filters in VA are pretty different compared to answers .

6. Any changes in the RPD and metadata doesnt referesh in the VA , need to do the refresh from administration (Did you face this as well)

They are many advantages and disadvantages . We were comparing reports with Tableau and VA . so these are the things we found in the VA . Oracle customer feel that VA is like a challenge for Tableau. But it doesnt seem to be.

Waiting for a next release or patch which will fix many of our concerns

Thanks

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