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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By : Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan
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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By: Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan

Overview of this book

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 12c is packed full of features and has a fresh approach to information presentation, system management, and security. OBIEE can help any organization to understand its data, to make useful information from data, and to ensure decision-making is supported by facts. OBIEE can focus on information that needs action, alerting users when conditions are met. OBIEE can be used for data analysis, form production, dashoarding, and workflow processes. We will introduce you to OBIEE features and provide a step-by-step guide to build a complete system from scratch. With this guide, you will be equipped with a good basic understanding of what the product contains, how to install and configure it, and how to create effective Business Intelligence. This book contains the necessary information for a beginner to create a high-performance OBIEE 12c system. This book is also a guide that explains how to use an existing OBIEE 12c system, and shows end users how to create.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Actions


Actions were introduced in OBIEE 11g. Actions are operations or processes initiated within OBIEE that provide extensible functionality to an end-user or the Oracle BI system. They can allow straightforward functionality such as providing a navigation option to other areas or reports in OBIEE or they can, with varying levels of complexity, invoke external systems. Using the most complex of capabilities, one could leverage OBIEE as part of a full business process workflow.

Let's go through a couple of examples for basic navigation using Actions. We will then briefly talk about the possibilities that exist in invoking other system functions.

BI Navigation

The most basic Action is that of navigating from one OBIEE object to another. We have already covered drilling using RPD hierarchies and Master-Detail linking in one of the previous chapters. Navigation Actions can be changed for an analysis column heading or value area via the Interaction  option on a column's Column Properties in the...