The Portal Path Variable Does Not Populate The Start Page In Oracle Analytics Server (OAS)

Question

Hi Team,

I see it in the Doc ID 2911374.1

https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?_afrLoop=479425835871802&id=2911374.1&_afrWindowMode=0&_adf.ctrl-state=2plabzyqe_4

that "The Portal Path Variable Does Not Populate The Start Page In Oracle Analytics Server (OAS)".

we upgraded to OAS, now as this feature is deprecated and planned for desupport in a future update.

In OBIEE 12c we are using portal path to navigate to the custom landing page.

How should we handle this situation.

Thanks!

Federico Venturin - Oracle · Accepted Answer

Hi @Karthi_obiee ,

In OAS, you can set the PortalPath in the Console > System Settings page. This setting will be applied to all users when accessing Classic Analytics.

As an alternative, each user is able to set a different starting page. In Classic Analytics, they have to click on their profile icon > My Account and update the Starting Page value.

Gianni Ceresa · Accepted Answer

Adding to Federico:

In the Console you can define the initial page by application role, this gives you a flexibility and configuration that for most cases is enough to replace the fully dynamic PortalPath variable that you had before. If you look at the doc linked in the MOS document you referenced above, you see an example.

GayathriAnand-Oracle · Accepted Answer

As noted by Gianni and Federico, the recommended approach is to do this via system settings or My Account as this feature will eventually go away. A stop gap is to follow instructions in Doc ID 2622528.1 How To Enable Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) Deprecated Features That Are Disabled By Default to edit the incubation.properties file.

Gianni Ceresa · Accepted Answer

Recent OAS version "auto-apply" changes. In the past there was even a button to restart the required components. Now it's a black box: no idea when it does restart what and when your changes are applied for real.

The easiest is to change the settings in the page, make sure they are saved there and then do a manual restart of the required components.

GayathriAnand-Oracle · Accepted Answer

Certain settings are auto applied, but for certain settings, Apply needs to clicked (When you click Apply, behind the scene it restarts obis or obips depending on the setting). Since you are using onprem, you can manually restart components and test to make sure the setting is in effect.