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Customer specified Vanity URL for OAC

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Apoteket

Description

Currently, there is no way the URL of OAC to be a customer specific URL, for example bi.companyname.com. It has to be the https://instancename-tenancy.ocp.oraclecloud.com/. For an enterprise application, this will be one of the requirements to have a URL that customer needs, so that business can easily recognize it. This will be a good enhancement to the OAC.

Use Case and Business Need

Custom URL for OAC, instead of <>.oraclecloud.com

More details

currently only thing we can edit is to have dv/ui or something else. The server DNS still is uneditable.

Original Idea Number: 47cfd30df4

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  • Jay Griffeth
    Jay Griffeth Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    This was an issue we faced at Maritz as well.  We successfully implemented a solution to accomplish this exact request.  We used a apache redirect to achieve this.  I've attached a document with the methodology we implemented.

    That being said, this would be much better if this was baked into OAC directly.  

  • Marcelo Finkielsztein
    Marcelo Finkielsztein Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    Just to confirm: this provides a customized URL/Link for end users to bookmark, but if they look at the URL bar once they are signed-in, they will see the "out-of-the-box" URL.
    Correct?

  • Jay Griffeth
    Jay Griffeth Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    Hi Marcelo,

    That is the one caveat to this.  When they TYPE the custom url like oac.maritz.com (for example) they will be redirected to the DV homepage. But, it's just a redirect, when they get to the homepage, the url is just the 'out-of-the-box' OAC url.   If they bookmark the page it will bookmark the 'out-of-the-box' url, not the custom url.  Our specific goal was to provide an easy to remember url if they happen to be working from home or some other location where their bookmarks might not exist.  So, if you're goal is to have the bookmark to the custom url then this will not meet those requirements.  We tried really hard to achieve a pervasive custom url, but were unsuccessful, but like I said that would have been great, but not our actual requirement. I hope that helps!

  • Marcelo Finkielsztein
    Marcelo Finkielsztein Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    Agreed.   We would like to have an URL ALIAS, not only an URL REDIRECT.
    Hopefully, Oracle implements it.
    Thanks.

  • User_T7OA6
    User_T7OA6 Rank 2 - Community Beginner

    Thanks a lot Jay for the document. Yes, this is one way, but as Marcelo said, The business Users will still be able to see the URL of with Oracle Cloud and that too with Gen2 OAC, the URL became more cryptic in nature. Lets look forward to URL ALIAS.

    Hopefully, Oracle Prioritizes this requirement so that more flexibility is in the hands of Customer.

    Thanks!

  • ChrisMarais
    ChrisMarais Rank 1 - Community Starter

    There are use cases where we would like to Embed the application and if the base domains are the same this greatly simplifies the integration.

  • Alan Lee - Oracle-Oracle
    Alan Lee - Oracle-Oracle Mod

    Confirming that this is on the plan for GA early CY.

  • Marcelo Finkielsztein
    Marcelo Finkielsztein Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    Very useful.
    1. we would like our users to have a friendly USRL
    2. we want also to be in control of that URL for instance to show "BI is under mantenance right now, please com back later". We would like to be able to redirect that URL as we need.

  • Marcelo Finkielsztein
    Marcelo Finkielsztein Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    Very useful.

    1. we would like our users to have a friendly URL
    2. we want also to be in control of that URL for instance to show "BI is under mantenance right now, please com back later". We would like to be able to redirect that URL as we need.
  • Marcelo Finkielsztein
    Marcelo Finkielsztein Rank 6 - Analytics Lead

    Recently, I have learned that the solution I emplemented has a loophole.

    I have users who use ONLY Classic Home Page (nothing DV).  I wante to give them a friendly URL to land on Classic Home Page, without getting through the OAC (dv) home page and then clicking on "Menu > Open Classic Home Page"., but when their session expires or when they sign off and then sign back on using the same browser tab, they land on the dv home page.  (bad).

     

    This the step by step

    1. User navigates to OAC.<my_company>.com

    2. my internal (Apache) web server redirects user to the Classic Home Page for OAC  ( https://MyInstance-MyTenant.analytics.ocp.oraclecloud.com/analytics/saw.dll?bieehome )

    3. User gets redirected to an adfs.<my_company>.com page where they sign on with IDCS + AD and start an authenticated session

    4. Upon authentication, 3. IDCS redirects to the expected Classic Home Page.

    5. Session times out due to inactivity (or User clicks on "sign out") => they see the adfs page again asking them to authenticate. 

    6. user authenticates on this very same tab.

    Expected Result => user gets the Classic Home Page -or even better- the page where they were before session expiration

    Actual Result => Users lands on OAC dv home page (https://MyInstance-MyTenant.analytics.ocp.oraclecloud.com/dv/ui?pageid=home)

     

    I opened "-24794599931 : how to customize landing page" due to this.
    Oracle created "Enh 31345189 - CUSTOM POSTLOGOUT URL AVAILABILITY FOR OAC"

    HTH,
    Marcelo