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10 Dec 2013

Scheduling OBIEE Reports with CRON

I recently got a request from a colleague to help them with scheduling...

04 Dec 2013

Prevent the FETCH FIRST XXX ROWS ONLY from Applying

27 Nov 2013
Data Modeling OBIEE 12c | 1 min read

Hide refresh button in No Results View

One of my colleague was designing the dashboard which has multiple rep...

19 Nov 2013

Managing BI Publisher Access

Here’s something I ran into recently wherein I didn’t find a quick ans...

15 Nov 2013

Repository Migration/Movement from Dev to QA/Prod

Background: We often do repository migration from DEV to QA/PROD, so e...

07 Nov 2013
Data Modeling OBIEE 12c | 1 min read

OBIEE PDF Download Display having HTML tags

Problem: Answers to queries, when HTML tags are used while calculating...

30 Oct 2013
Data Modeling OBIEE 12c | 1 min read

Tooltip On Column Headers : OBIEE 11g

In one of our projects we had a requirement of putting tooltip on colu...

24 Oct 2013
OBIEE 12c | 2 min read

OBIEE 11g - User Folder Path Hashing

As usual, I got caught in a strange problem which one of our customers...

07 Sep 2013

OBIEE 11g - Testing LDAP Authentication with Custom Passwords

When setting up a LDAP / AD connection in OBIEE, you sometimes want to...

07 Sep 2013

Finding specific data in Oracle Database (GREP)

Imagine, there are a few tables in your schema and you want to find a ...

07 Sep 2013
OBIEE 12c | 2 min read

OBIEE 11g - Change Default Behavior when editing a report

With the move from OBIEE 10 to OBIEE 11, the default behavior when edi...

07 Sep 2013
Data Modeling OBIEE 12c | 1 min read

OBIEE 11g - Conditionally Formatting Different Number Columns

OBIEE 11g now allows you to set the data format of a column conditiona...

07 Sep 2013

DAC Data Model

Problem: I am doing a BI Applications project for a customer where I a...

04 Sep 2013

OBIEE 11g and File Path limits

I encountered a strange error which I spent almost a full day trying t...

24 Feb 2011

How to setup report bursting (data driven publication) in BusinessObjects

One of my favourite features of BusinessObjects is the data driven pub...

09 Feb 2011

Drill down in XCelsius/Dashboard Design

One of the most frequent questions asked, is about configuring drill d...

03 Feb 2011

Building Live Dashboards using Live Office

In my previous post Creating Live Dashboards using QWAAS I had shown h...

30 Jan 2011

Creating Maps with Oracle BI 11g - Initial Setup & Pre-Requisites

This week I'd like to highlight and address one of the major feature o...

15 Jan 2011
OBIEE 12c | 5 min read

Upgrading OBIEE 10g content to 11g

Last week we had put up a post for addressing upgrade and lifecycle ma...

14 Jan 2011

Linking Dashboards and Reports in BOE Dashboard Builder

One of the common requests I have found on the BOB board relates to ho...