Customize currency symbols(Column PropertiesData Format)

Posted on September 13, 2010 by bintelligencegroup In order to customize currency symbols which is under Column Properties-Data Format,we need to change it in currencies.xml file at this location OracleBI\web\config. I Changed Currency symbol of canada.Can see it in below screen shots. Before Chnage-

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Changes to Chart
Posted on September 13, 2010 by bintelligencegroup In order to do any changes to chart,Increasing distance between x-axis and title,x-axis and legends we need to change it in cordalayout.cxml file at OracleBI\web\app\res\s_oracle10\chartsupport this location. Totally we had five types in this LEFT LEGEND WITH TITLES ,RIGHT LEGEND WITH TITLES ,TOP LEGEND WITH TITLES,BOTTOM LEGEND WITH TITLES,NO LEGEND WITH TITLES. So based on the type of view you used in you chart,change x and y axis titles,title and legends top,left,width,height as per your need. In below graphs i changed xtitle-top value so increase space between axis and title. Before Change-

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Changing Column Indent Color in Pivot Tables

Posted on September 8, 2010 by bintelligencegroup All the attributes of a pivot table are exposed to end users and can be customized using Section, Page and Column properties. But in the case of Column Indent there is no property in the UI to change the background color. If you are not sure what i mean, check the sample Pivot table below

The above pivot table shows you the Column Indent. Unfortunately, there is no property within the pivot table to change this color. lets look at an approach today to change the

color of this cell. Remember, by following the below method, it will affect all your Pivot tables. The steps to modify this color are 1. Go to OracleBI\web\app\res\s_oracle10\b_mozilla_4. Open the Views.css file in a text editor and Search for PTIndentCell. This is the Property which handles the color of the column indent. Now, change the background color to the desired color.

For example, .PTIndentCell { background-color: #54A36A; } 2. Save the above file and repeat the same procedure to the Views.css file under OracleBI\oc4j_bi\j2ee\home\applications\analytics\analytics\res\s_oracle10\b_mozilla_4. 3. Restart Presentation and BI Server.Now, if you go to your pivot table, you would notice that the color for this cell would have been changed. *Take backup of files before doing this and if you do this change it will effect all the pivot tables in dashboard. If you want to do it for specific pivot table,then add static text to the compound layout view in which pivot table is placed.Add below java script to that static text. Add javaScript like this: <script type=text/javascript> var tds = document.getElementsByTagName(td); var lCSS = new Array(); for(var td=0;td<tds.length;td++){ if( tds[td].className != PTIndentCell ){ continue; } tds[td].style.backgroundColor=#CCCC00; lCSS.push(tds[td].innerHTML); } </script> Posted in OBIEE | Leave a comment

Protect Filter in OBIEE

Posted on September 7, 2010 by bintelligencegroup We face issues when filters are not protected.Lets see the importance of protecting filters with small example. I created a report with two filters on quarter.

I created a dashboard with prompt on quarter and placed the created report.Selected a value from prompt and result is as follows..

We applied extra filters on report(2008Q3 & 2008Q4) which you can see in the above report,but in dashboard it didnt filter accordingly.This is because filters are not protected. Now i protected a filter(2008Q4) in the report and saved it.

Now i am selecting a value(2007Q3) from dropdown in prompt,you can see the result as follows(Filters prompt values and protected filter value)

But in the above report it didnt filter 2008Q3 which is applied as filter,this because we didnt protect it.Now i will protect that filter(2008Q3)

Now i selected a value(2007Q3 and 2008Q4) in the dashboard prompt and the result is correct as filters are protected

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Display the preceded Zeros in Excel output using RTF tempalte

Posted on September 7, 2010 by bintelligencegroup In the excel output we will not get the preceded zeros.For example if we are having a value 02345 ,but in the output we will get 2345 only. In order to display 02345 we have to use the follwoing syntax as form field <fo:bidi-override direction=ltr unicode-bidi=bidi-override> <?column_name?> </fo:bidi-override> Posted in BIP | 1 Comment

Pass skin and style from url in OBIEE

Posted on September 6, 2010 by bintelligencegroup we can redirect the user based on the skin and style given in the url.In order to do this we need to add the below code in Serverinstance tag of instanceconfig.xml file.We define parameterlist in Auth\UserIdPassword part of the instanceconfig.xml: <Auth> <UserIdPassword enabled=true> <ParamList> <Param name=NQ_SESSION.STYLE source=url nameInSource=STL/>

<Param name=NQ_SESSION.SKIN source=url nameInSource=SKN/> </ParamList> </UserIdPassword> </Auth> *Restart Presentation and BI Server *Clear browser cahce Now we can pass the skin and style using STL and SKN.Give url as follows.. http://localhost:9704/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&SKN=myskin&STL=mystyle Here im having s_mystyle and sk_myskin as style and skin folders. Posted in OBIEE | Leave a comment

How to make custom skin and style as default in OBIEE

Posted on September 6, 2010 by bintelligencegroup Dashboards skin and style folders are under OracleBI\oc4j_bi\j2ee\home\applications\analytics\analytics\res.By default dashboard points to s_oracle10(style) and sk_oracle10(skin). We can create our own skin and style folder by doing some changes in the existing skin and style folders and save them with some other name.Here we are saving as s_mystyle and sk_myskin.(Take back up of both style and skin folders before doing any changes) Place the custom folders created under OracleBI\oc4j_bi\j2ee\home\applications\analytics\analytics\res & OracleBI\web\app\res Now add the below code in instanceconfig.xml file under ServerInstance tag. <DefaultStyle>mystyle</DefaultStyle> (Case Sensitive) <DefaultSkin>myskin</DefaultSkin> (Case Sensitive) *Resart the presentation and BI server *Clear cahce Posted in OBIEE | 1 Comment

Add custom images to dashboard

Posted on September 6, 2010 by bintelligencegroup In order to add custom images to dashboards,we can use some images already present under this folder OracleBI\oc4j_bi\j2ee\home\applications\analytics\analytics\res\s_oracle10\images (or) If we want some new images other than images in the images folder add those images at above mentioned path and OracleBI\web\app\res\s_oracle10\images *Restart services after adding new images To show those custom images on dashboards we need to give fmap:images/ (image_name.jpg under the above path) *Use forward slash

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How to make column heading and values not to wrap

Posted on September 6, 2010 by bintelligencegroup Many of them face problem with text wrap.In order to avoid this we need to add a CSS Styles. To apply for Column values go to Column properties->Style->Custom CSS Style Options->CSS Style To apply for Column heading go to Column properties->Column Format(Edit format in column heading)->Custom CSS Style Options->CSS Style We need to add white-space:nowrap to avoid text wrap.In the same way we had many Styles in this link http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_text_white-space.asp .Can use them based on our requirement. Posted in OBIEE | Leave a comment

Keyboard Shortcut for Dashboard Navigation

Posted on September 4, 2010 by bintelligencegroup CTRL + SHIFT + F2: Navigates to the first dashboard listed on the page. This is usually your personal dashboard, named My Dashboard.

CTRL + SHIFT + F3: Navigates to the first page in the current dashboard. CTRL + SHIFT + I : Navigates to the next section of content in the current dashboard. This shortcut navigates first from left to right, and then down. CTRL + SHIFT + U: Navigates to the previous section of content in the current dashboard. This shortcut navigates first from right to left, and then up. CTRL + SHIFT + F8: Navigates to the next item within a section of content. If the section is aligned horizontally, this shortcut navigates from left to right. CTRL + SHIFT + F7: Navigates to the previous item within a section of content. If the section is aligned horizontally, this shortcut navigates from right to left.