Oracle OBIEE Tutorial Answer To BI Publisher

Learn Hyperion/OBIEE by Amit Sharma. Mail to aloo_a2@yahoo.
com for all Hyperion/OBIEE trainings and support
Learn OBIEE Answer

By
Amit Sharma
Learn Hyperion/OBIEE by Amit Sharma. Mail to aloo_a2@yahoo.com for all Hyperion/OBIEE trainings and support
Hello All,
Today we’ll develop our first BI Answer Request and convert it into BI Publisher. This guide will give you step by step
to create Answer request, process request, conver it to BI Publisher and finally integrate it to Dashboard.
Step #1 Loging it to BI Answer to create out first Answer Request.

URL: http://<nameofserver>>analytics/saw.dll?/analytics/saw.dll?Answers&SubjectArea=%22Sample%20Sales%22
Step #2 Once you login to the Server, you can see the list of Subject Areas. Select the subject to start building the first
Answer Request. In our case I have taken sample sales.
Step#3 Select the dimension members and facts from Sample Sales Subject Area. You can find the selected Dimension
members appear in Columns sections.
Step#4 Once you select all dimensions and filters. The screen may look like this.In the given below screenshot I haven’t
selected any filter so the Filters section is empty. However you could select one by Ctrl+Select to place the filter in
screen. Click the view button to view how does your request output look like. Save the below Answer Reques. I have
given as Report16_V1 name.
Step# 5 . In the below screen I have selected[Ctrl+Select] Customer Name as Filter so it opens Create/Edit Filter Dialog
box.Here we can specify the Customer name as default filter.
Step#6 Answer Query processed output

Step#7 Your Answer Request is ready now. We are going to convert it to BI Publisher. Open MS Word and Click on
Oracle BI Publisher Log On Screen. Same as given in below screen.
Step#8 Once your user and password get authenticated, you can see the below screen. Select Oracle BI from
Workspace Dropdown and select your BI Answer Request you created.
Step#9 Double click the file, it will open the SaveAs dialogbox.
Step#10 Once file saved to the desired location, open BI Publisher.
Step#11 Open the folder where you saved your file[Report16_v1]. Click view button to view the file.
Step#12: This will open the Report. Later I addes the Customer Name as Filter so you can see the customer name as
dropdown filter. You can notice one thing the Template Dropdown is empty now. We’ll upload the layout and publish it in
later screen shots. Select the Data in next dropdown and click view to generate the XML file from Answer Request.
Step #13 Click the Export button to export this XML file so that this XMl could be used as source to cerate Template.
Step#14 : Next Load this XML file as Data Source. Select Data->Load XML Data. We are using simple tabular format in
our first example to make it simple.
Step#15 Now we’ll create the Template to Publish this report in a given Template format. Select Table Wizard as given in
screen.
Step#16 Select Table from the list and follow the steps given in screen shots
Step#17: Select your desired columns from the list.

Step#18 Specify the Group by Option to group the Records based on certain criteria[i.e Product Category]
Step#19 Select the sort criteria to order the records based on certain column.
Step#20 Select what label you want to display to the business. The two rectangle says the Technical Name Vs
Business Name
Step#21 Once selected it may look like this.

Step#22 To preview the output select Preview->RTF, this will prompt you to save the Template before previewing it.The
save the Template and give Demo_Report.rtf file name. The file has to be in rtf format only.
Step#23 The report output look like this in tabular format. In the advance tutorials we’ll see how to use custom more
complicated template.
:
Step#24 We’ll Publish this Template so Business Users can see it in Dashboard.
Step#25 Click Edit Click Report->Data Model->data, You can see the Default Data Source is Oracle BI EE as apposed
to any RDBMS.
Step#26 Now we’ll upload this template and Business Users will see the report in this Template format.
Step#27 Select Upload Template:->Browse Select the file we save named as Demo_report.rtf and upload it.
Step#28 Once layout got selected its time to select the XML Data File. Select Upload Sample Data->Browse and Upload
and upload the XML file we svaed last time[in Step#13 ].
Step#29 Name the Template “Demo Report”

Step#30 View the report to make sure the uploaded template iw working file.
Step#31 Now we’ll place the BI Publisher report in Dashboard and give final view to Business Users. Log In to
Dashboard.
Step#32 Select Dashboard Link.
Step#33 Drag and Drop Text to Specify the Heading Text.

Step#34 Select Text Property to Write Heading in Bold <B>This is an Example of BI Publisher Report</B>
Step#35 Finally Drag and Drop the BI Publisher Report.
Step#35 Now you can Save the Dashboard and view the result in Dashboard.

Oracle OBIEE Tutorial Answer To BI Publisher

Transféré par

Informations du document

Description originale:

Titre original

Copyright

Partager ce document

Partager ou intégrer le document

Options de partage

Avez-vous trouvé ce document utile ?

Ce contenu est-il inapproprié ?

Droits d'auteur :

Oracle OBIEE Tutorial Answer To BI Publisher

Transféré par

Droits d'auteur :

Learn Hyperion/OBIEE by Amit Sharma. Mail to aloo_a2@yahoo.

com for all Hyperion/OBIEE trainings and support

Learn OBIEE Answer

Step #1 Loging it to BI Answer to create out first Answer Request.

Step#6 Answer Query processed output

Step#17: Select your desired columns from the list.

Step#21 Once selected it may look like this.

Step#29 Name the Template “Demo Report”

Step#32 Select Dashboard Link.

Step#33 Drag and Drop Text to Specify the Heading Text.

Vous aimerez peut-être aussi