Setting a filter to find results that match one of your requirements is easy, e.g. Find me People who have used OBIEE in April or May. Peasy. (You were thinking Multi-select on your Dashboard Prompt, right?) But, what if we want to find people who have used OBIEE in April…
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Don’t Share! (Use your Own Filters)
Yes I know Sharing can be fun, but not everyone likes to share. If you share you have to play nice with the other children (developers). I like to keep everything for a single ‘project’ in one folder, all the prompts, analyses, dashboards, etc and that includes the Filters. For…
Sailing Holidays Again
Just had another holiday at the seaside, where my daughter was competing in a Youth National Championships, and achieved Bronze Medal. Therefore I am a bit late with the blog, so on with the show… Blogs of the week 1. OBIEE – Selecting columns dynamically – part4, working with and…
Catalog Surprises
It’s amazing how far you can push OBIEE. This week we saw a blog about copying a page on it’s own, no dashboard, just a page. One of the methods I like to use is keep all the dashboard, analysis, prompts and filters for a ‘dashboard’, in a set of…
Forgot your Password?
I recently started using a password manager, due to the fact that its impossible to remember all the different ones, and it would be plain stupid to have one for all sites and systems. The only problem is I have forgotten the master password to get into the password management…
Webinar Anyone?
We are well into the conference season, January saw a gathering in San Francisco, Next week Ireland, May in Brighton and Atlanta, then the BIG one in Miami, and of course another San Francisco trip in September, before wrapping up the year in the UKOIG. Phew, thats a lot of…
Here Comes Summer
Spring is here, Have you not noticed going to work in daylight? Of course I am referring to the Northern Hemisphere. For those down under now is the time to pack your bags and head north to the sun. There are many things you can get online, soo much fun to…
European Highs and Lows
These last few weekends I have been visiting Spain and Switzerland. Sailing in Spain and Skiing in Switzerland. Down on the Coast in Spain and Up in the Mountains in Switzerland. The car rental in each country demonstrates the major difference between these countries. In Spain we pre booked a…
Wearable Oracle
A parcel arrived this week, while I am away in Barcelona, and it was a nice Oracle ACE Program top. I hope it fits! Photos to follow (of the top not my Barcelona trip) Anyway, despite being away, the show must go on… Blogs of the week 1. Using ODI Knowledge…
England 21 Wales 16
Some stats don’t need a big database and business intelligence systems. Sometimes we are asked to write fancy javascript or create links, or put lots of colour on the page, but remember… It’s the numbers that matters, not how clever the developer is. Blogs of the week 1. APEX 5.0 EA3…