At a very high level, if you want to mess around with things like padding and the OOB options aren't cutting it: * Deploy a custom skin (lots of steps around this; you can read up on it) * Use browser tools (F12) and figure out what CSS is controlling the padding of whatever thing you're trying to reduce padding for - then…

There could be a lot of reasons. Sounds like you've eliminated browser cache as the problem, but there are other things to check: * Pull up your browser tools (F12) and see where oracle_logo is coming from. Is it coming from your custom skin or an Oracle-provided skin? * Do you need to redeploy your custom skin via…

This doesn't seem to be the right place to ask your question. It sounds like you need to contact your company's OBIEE team and ask them your question.

No Worries. Quick overview on how it works in our 11g environment: * Authentication Block. Query to populate these session variables: USER, DISPLAYNAME, and EMAIL for the :USER and :PASSWORD provided. Without getting into excessive detail, we actually do a pl/sql call to a web service that authenticates the user. We don't…

Robert Angel wrote:Initialization blocks is only partial security, typically used for row level filters specific to end users, it does not handle initial user login and general OBIEE function based security.On the rest see =>https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/bi.1111/e10543/legacy.htm#BIESC307 I disagree. You can read…

It is indeed possible in your 11g version to store users, groups, and user_group assignments in a database schema and authenticate/authorize based on that schema. You can use Initialization Blocks (defined in the RPD) to handle this. You'll need to read up on the :USER and :PASSWORD system session variables to understand…

It sounds to me like your mistake is probably somewhere in Steps 2-5 of DOC ID 2188982.1. You should review that doc and compare it to what you have configured in your environment. Specifically, I'd check that you are using "Custom Identity and Custom Trust", not "Demo Identity and Demo Trust" in weblogic console in these…

What error message do you see in the logs when the GOURL with alias fails? Have you reviewed documents 1457278.1 and 2134201.1 on MOS?

This is almost impossible for anyone to answer, but some thoughts to get you started that may lead you to ask more specific, answerable question: * Does your system meet the minimum hardware requirements? * What's the memory, CPU, load look like while your environment is idle? * What's the memory, CPU, load look like when…

I'm not familiar with your specific SSO approach (Siteminder), but I do have SAML2.0 SSO working in our 12c environment. I have a few suggestions for you to explore: 1) Oracle Support specifically instructed me *not* to tick the "Enable SSO" box in EM, even though we are clearly doing SSO. I am not sure if this was unique…

Hello, We had the same goal to remove all traces of Visual Analyzer since we aren't licensed for it. I accomplished this in two steps (version 12.2.1.2.0): 1) Ran revokeEntitlement(appStripe="obi", principalClass="oracle.security.jps.service.policystore.ApplicationRole",principalName="BIAuthor",entitlementName="va.author")…

We handle our down message at the load balancer, which works well for us. If this is an option in your organization perhaps it is worth pursuing instead of your current approach. That being said, the process of unpacking, modifying, repacking and deploying analytics.war and analytics.ear is quite easy to mess up,…

Have you read this: https://blogs.oracle.com/pa/entry/user_s_group_and_application

I stumbled across this today: OBIEE in IL: OBIEE - Selecting columns dynamically - part4, working with and selecting none I thought of your question and think this could be very useful for you. You might want to read the whole series as well.

I don't want to create two separate analysis and placed them in different section. That eliminates what would probably be my first suggestion then. Another hacky way would be to use a case statement to display an empty column or even a "No Column Selected" type of value. But technically this doesn't hide the column as…

I might be missing something here, but it sounds like you just want to do a straight up average of the data. So something like AVG(<your_fact_column> by <your_quarter_column>) EDIT: Since you asked about doing in the RPD, and my last response is how you'd do it in an ad-hoc request... You probably already have a time…

Let's assume you are on OBIEE 11g (you didn't say). If so, you can indeed insert the scroll option into each individual report. To do so, modify the "Table View Properties" and under "Data Viewing" select the option "Fixed Headers with Scrolling Content". From there you can specify height and width of the table in pixels…

Not sure if it's possible to add it to S_NQ_ACCT. There is a way to track IP address, one way is mentioned in this article: https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/11/auditing-obiee-presentation-catalog-activity-with-custom-log-filters/ Do read the disclaimers.

What problem are you trying to solve exactly, and which OBIEE version are you asking about? Are you familiar with the description ID and "double column" feature of OBIEE? There is a good article on this here: https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/08/oracle-bi-ee-11g-handling-double-columns-iddescription-interoperability/…

So User A's agents were moved from /users/User A/Agents to /users/User B/Agents? Or are these agents in a /shared/ location? If you open the catalog manager in offline mode, and go into /users/User B/Agents folder, and check the permissions of one of User A's old agents, does User B have Full Control? Or do you notice any…