Well, what a disappointment. I've seen much smaller companies crank out way more features in new releases. Power BI updates have been monthly if not more..

Create a new column with a CASE WHEN statement. Example: CASE WHEN column1 = 'Yes' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END Then make the default aggregation on that field a sum or count

Lightweight SSO option came out in 12.2.1.2...it looks like they just copied the release notes from the prior version. Someone just needs to install and see what the changes would be. 

I would also like to know this, as well as if the plan is to ever keep them more "in sync" with each other. People want to be able to share their DV work online. OBIEE on premise is the only way to do this, but with the feature gap, it's pretty much useless. It looks like the cloud version of DVCS was recently updated with…

There's no denying Oracle's behavior around the plugins is quite strange. At first it seemed like some sort of rogue effort by a few Oracle employees, and they were on a Google Site of all places...yea, real official! Google sites are blocked at most workplaces, so we could never use them anyway. Now they moved them to…

The problem with that solution is with lots of rows it will get slow and clunky real fast. Users need a simple option to keep a project but use with a differently named data source.

What are you trying to do with LDAP or Kerberos? If you connect to OBIEE through DVD you can use LDAP for any of the subject areas. And since it supports ODBC drivers now, any of the windows ODBC drivers supporting kerberos could be used.

I would rather they focus on actually fixing the existing bugs and implementing some basic features (like better file management / saving - right now business user can't even figure out how to export and import dva projects on desktop, it is way too complicated). The feature gap isn't as big as it seems, DVD is missing…

Yes a lot of the connectors are not fully fleshed out - even Oracle's own Essbase connector (and they really need a Hyperion connector that would leverage the metadata in the applications, such as Planning). If they could get a data processing engine on the desktop and integrate everything a bit more, it'd be a killer…

Here's how it is playing out for us- DV/VA is for business users with little technical knowledge and Answers/traditional OBIEE is too steep a learning curve for them. These people will mostly use Excel data and visualize it. It's somewhat a competitor to self-service tools like Tableau or Power BI, although it does not…

I would add that you should be cautious using the downloadrpd and uploadrpd. It's not officially supported yet and ask me "how i know". We used it a few times and were getting odd errors with corruption in the repository in certain subject areas. We went back to having to export/import the whole service instance and the…

Yes, when using internal and external authenticator, you want to have weblogic authenticator first. They should also both be set to "sufficient". Like in the other answers above, to do what you desire to do (have external LDAP users but control roles/groups in OBIEE) you just set up custom application roles and assign the…

That is nothing to do with the authentication itself but in general the console, and particularly EM, can take a while to load into memory and run on the server.

Thanks, didn't think to check the release notes for that information, you'd think they put it along with the actual export/import section. Scenarios - think about testing and staging upgrades. We like to clone prod to stage upgrade environments, but perform tests on the actual production reports (so users could test all…

Have a ticket open and they are "researching", hadn't looked through any MOS articles yet but it's not mentioned in the documentation that it won't migrate XSA yet. It could get problematic once there are lots of XSA's created by user, there are some scenarios where we would want to be able to move between environments.

Seems odd they release a huge in-place upgrade for only bug fixes. So it has been confirmed that the OBIEE release of DV does not include the new visuals or data source types as DVD? Also had heard from someone internal at Oracle that 12.2.1.2 was going to include export functionality finally (PDF and powerpoint) but…

But for the data set there is no such option. I found the permissions area for the data set by right clicking on the dataset and then select "Inspect". There is a permissions tab. I suspect this is where you would add users access to the dataset - however, it is not showing LDAP/external directory users, only local…

BI Authors are a member of BI Consumer but this is set up by default, just as BI Admins are a member of BI Author. The only roles listed with approve for Access Catalog UI are BI Admin and BI Author, so it doesn't make any sense that it's still allowing BI Consumers catalog access

The persmissions don't seem to work like that should. When I denied BI Consumer, it took away my Catalog link even though I'm an admin. I removed the deny and approved only Admins and Authors, but BI Consumers can still see the link that way. Why is it disabling it from admins as well if I deny BI Consumer?

I have tried to create a large report with almost all of the columns, but OBIEE doesn't seem to think there is a cache hit. It seems the difference in aggregations depending on user's path does not cause a cache hit even though that data is theoretically in the cache.