OBIEE Image path and Size limit

Gianni Ceresa · Feb 1, 2017 8:59AM

Yes and no...

You can have them on a different server but to use fmap you will have to mount on the OBIEE server the folder from the other server containing the images to deploy that as analyticsRes (or link it inside the deployed analyticsRes).

If you don't do that you will need a way to "server" the images from the other server, the simplest one would be to install a web server (nginx, httpd etc.) and then instead of fmap you will use http://otherserver/.... links.

If you have HTTPS on your OBIEE you will have warnings because of not secured content and so the webserver will need to be HTTPS too.

[Deleted User] · Feb 1, 2017 9:01AM

a) That's not what you asked for initially.

b) It's a WEB application server so obviously it needs to have access to the files through HTTP.

c) You can reference anything you want as long as you have URL like so.

d) So "outside your OBIEE server" - yes if it's accessible in a web way. Not a physical file system way. If you create a deployment pointing to a a physical which resides on a different server then that'll work but you need the deployment to make things accessible online. If the "other server" makes the images accessible via URLs then that will work too.

Hope you see the difference between a file system and a web world...

[Deleted User] · Feb 1, 2017 10:49AM

BTW just googling also yields this directly from the Oracle CEAL team: https://blogs.oracle.com/pa/entry/obiee_12c_how_to_configure

Gianni Ceresa · Feb 1, 2017 11:16AM

If following that approach all the static files must be on the "other server", not just a bunch of custom images, because OBIEE will stop referencing the static files locally and use the remote http:// instead.

[Deleted User] · Feb 1, 2017 12:30PM

Yes but I meant the concepts

User_N8YMF · Feb 2, 2017 4:51AM

Thanks for the response.

I tried this URL option. How do we change the image name in the URL dynamically based on the dashbaord prompt selection.

For Eg:

Prompt:

Project : Project1

then Image URL to be

http://10.10.8.8:9704/Custom_Images/Project1.jpg

Prompt:

Project : Project2

then Image URL to be

http://10.10.8.8:9704/Custom_Images/Project2.jpg.

I tried using the presentation variable option like http://10.10.8.8:9704/Custom_Images/@{proj_var}, it dint work, is there anything am missing here?

Thanks

Rajesh.

[Deleted User] · Feb 2, 2017 5:06AM

'http://10.10.8.8:9704/Custom_Image' || '@{proj_var}{Project0}'

User_N8YMF · Feb 5, 2017 1:51AM

It works like this,

http://10.8.6.17:9704/Custom_Images/@{Image3}

but there are few images which is not getting displayed, not sure whether it is image problem.

All my images under the Custom_Images folder are of same type, same size(approx) and same permissions. But few images do not display with the same method

For EG:

http://10.8.6.17:9704/Custom_Images/@{Image1} do not display the Image1,

but

http://10.8.6.17:9704/Custom_Images/@{Image3} diplays the Image3 without any issue.

Both images are present in the same Custom_Images folder.

Tried browser cache cleaning and restarting the presentation services as well, but no luck.

Any specific reason why this behavior?

Thanks,

Rajesh.

[Deleted User] · Feb 6, 2017 3:07AM

Do they display properly in a browser when you just use the address rather than curling them into an analysis column inside OBIEE?

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