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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial

By : Christian Screen, Haroun Khan, Adrian Ward
Book Image

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial

By: Christian Screen, Haroun Khan, Adrian Ward

Overview of this book

<p>The Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE) suite delivers a full range of analytic and reporting capabilities, coupled with powerful user experience for creating reports, dashboards and more with your business data. "<em>Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial"</em> will have you unleashing that power in no time, helping you to take action and make the right decisions ataglance. <br /><br /><em>"Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial"</em> provides you with valuable insight and the step-by-step know-how you need to take advantage of everything the Oracle BI suite has to offer you, all utilizing real world case studies for a true implementation in action.<br /><br /><em>"Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands- on Tutorial"</em> takes you on a journey right from inception to a full working OBI 11g System. Using a real-world data walkthrough you’ll explore topics like architecture, reporting and leveraging Essbase as a data source, as well as building the Oracle BI 11g metadata repository (RPD), and developing reports and dashboards in the new Fusion Middleware interface. This practical implementation guide equips you with from the coalface advice which will help you achieve a successful working application by journey’s end.</p>
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11: A Hands-On Tutorial
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building Dashboards


We can present multiple objects and analyses to an end-user via a container called a Dashboard.

Creating a dashboard

We can create a new dashboard from the Home screen in the same place as we created a new analysis:

We will click on the create dashboard link and then give it a name, and optionally, a description. We also stipulate the catalog location that we want to save our dashboard object in. If we leave Add content now chosen, then when we click on OK we will enter the Dashboard Builder.

Dashboard builder

The Dashboard Builder is where we can add, remove, and amend objects that we want on our dashboard:

The builder is made up of three panes:

  • Dashboard Objects: Here, we can add formatting options such as columns and sections to the dashboard. We can also create outgoing links, text, reference catalog folders and embed content (internal and external).

  • Catalog: We can add analyses that we have created to sections in the dashboard. If we have already created dashboards, then...