Customizations

8/8/2019 Customizations

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i. To change the color of dashboard tabsii. To set ROWS PER PAGE by default

iii. Generating Metadata Dictionaryiv. To enable links in dashboard (modify, download, refresh, etc) by defaultv. To enable column sorting by defaultvi. To change languages at UI level (at dashboard login page)

vii. To enable Admin tab in BI publisher if it is not presentviii. Aggregate Persistence wizard

To change the color of dashboard tabs:

Go to dashboard page of interest & click "edit dashboard" and add a "text" dashboard object with the

following script.

var tblId=document.getElementById('TabsTable');

tblId.tBodies[0].rows[0].cells[1].className='';






tblId.tBodies[0].rows[0].cells[1].style.backgroundColor='red';

tblId.tBodies[0].rows[0].cells[2].style.backgroundColor='red'

tblId.tBodies[0].rows[0].cells[3].style.backgroundColor='yellow'

tblId.tBodies[0].rows[0].cells[4].style.backgroundColor='yellow'

tblId.tBodies[0].rows[0].cells[5].style.backgroundColor='green'

tblId.tBodies[0].rows[0].cells[6].style.backgroundColor='green'

To set ROWS PER PAGE by default:


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Place this tag before Advanced Reporting in Instanceconfig.xml.

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GENERATING METADATA DICTIONARY:

Step1:

Open rpd in offline mode,

click on tools -> Utilities ->generate metadata dictionary -> click on executeas follows

After executing it prompts for location where it need to save the metadata

browse some location ,after that following message appears


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Step2:

Create the dictionary folder in the following location:

\oc4j_bi\j2ee\home\applications\analytics\analytics

As follows


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And then move contents(where we have specified location) to the dictionary

folder

Step 3:

After setting OC4J Prerequisites, we have to tell the presentation server

where to find the dictionary. This is configured in the

INSTANCECONFIG.XML file.

this file is found in \web\config.

Open the INSTANCECONFIG.XML file and add the following tag between

the tags.

Note: Aftermakingnecessarychanges,restart OracleBI

Presentation Server, OracleBI Server.


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Step4:

Access the metadata dictionary from Answers

Aftermakingthechangesintheconfiguration fileandrestartingthepresentationservice, Login Answersapplicationandselectthe

subject Area. Youwillbeabletoseein Answersareaontherightof

each column,tableandcubeanewicon. A clickonthisiconwill

presentyouthe Xmldatadictionaryassociated. (Bookicon for

componentsanditemswillappearafterthemousecursor hoveringtoit).

To enable links in dashboard (modify, download,

refresh, etc) by default:

To enable column sorting by default:


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To enable Green bars by default:

To change languages at UI level (at dashboard login page):

Specifying Multiple Languages For Catalog Contents

Pre Requisites:-

1) Have a table in corresponding Schema as following Structure.Create table tab-name(Actual varchar2(100),session_variable varchar2(100),translation

varchar2(100),language varchar(100));

Steps:-

1. Open Administration Console and right click on the Presentation Subject Area that you would like

to Externalize. You would see 2 options there to externalize names and descriptions. For now letsexternalize Names alone. So, click on Externalize Display Names.

2. Once this is done go to Tools->Utilties and Click on Execute to Externalize Strings.


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After this, you would see a screen that would look like this. What this basically shows you is the

Names of the presentation catalogs. Save this as a csv file.

3) Translate the data into the specified language u want. Now, copy the translated data into theCSV file in their corresponding columns.

4) Add new column LANGUAGE in CSV file and specify the languages by their abbreviations.


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5) Now, load the CSV file into the database table which is created earlier.6) Import the table into Physical layer in Admin tool.

7) The first step after importing this table is to create an initialization block to initialize theLOCALE variable based on the language selected by the user in Dashboard login. To do this

create a session initialization block having the data source from a database. The database sql

would have a sql like this


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SELECT VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.WEBLANGUAGE) FROM DUAL

Also assign the target to the system session variable LOCALE. What this basically does is,

whenever a user logs into dashboards the WEBLANGUAGE session variable is set. Then this

variable sets the LOCALE variable using the initialization block.

8) The next step is to create another session initialization block which would basically create aset of session variables using a database specific sql. The sql would look like this

select SESSION_VARIABLE, TRANSLATION from external where LANGUAGE =

VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.LOCALE)

As you see above, this block will create all the variables whose Language match the users

login language. Set the target of the init block to Row Wise initialization and then select the

previously created init block in the execution precedence. i.e we want the 1st block created

earlier to execute first.


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9) Save the RPD and restart all the services.10) Open Analytics web page, select the language and login. Check the changes you made.

Toenable AdmintabinBI publisherifitisnotpresent:

Go to OracleBI -> xmlp -> XMLP -> Admin -> Configuration


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Usage Tracking:

Aggregate Persistence wizard:

1) Open the rpd.2) Go to tools Aggregate Persistence wizard3) specify an output file name for the resultant script.

4) creating the Aggregate script is to specify the measures for which you would like tocreate the aggregate tables. Remember, you can only use those measures that have

some predefined aggregation set.


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5) Once that is done, choose the levels across the dimensions which you would like toassociate with the aggregation.


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6) Once the levels are chosen, choose the names and the connection pool for the targetaggregate table.

7) Then complete the wizard. This would create the script in the output directory youspecified.

8) Go to command prompt and navigate to {OracleBI}/Server/Bin and there you would findan executable called as nqcmd.exe. This is what we will use to execute the above script.Use the command below to execute this

nqcmd -d AnalyticsWeb -u Administrator -p Administrator -s

D:\AggregateCountry.sql -o D:\Outputfile1.txt

( D:\AggregateCountry.sql is the path where u saved the output script. D:\Outputfile1.txt

Is the path which u have created to store the output file.)


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9) Once this script is executed open the Admin tool and the repository. If you navigate tothe connection pool you would find the aggregate tables created.

10)Also, if you double click on any of the levels above the Country level (saySubRegion_Name), you would find that the logical mapping has been automaticallycreated by the script.


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11)Before proceeding further lets just go back to the database and see how the data of theaggregate table looks like. Remember, there will be 2 tables. One is for storing the level

hierarchy and the other is for storing the aggregates.

12)And, at last lets create a simple report in BI Answers containing the Region, SubRegionand Country Columns. After that look at the query that is fired in the backend. You

would notice that the aggregate table will be used instead of the actual transaction table.


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