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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c

You're reading from   Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c Build your organization's Business Intelligence system

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464712
Length 578 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Adrian Ward Adrian Ward
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Haroun Khan Haroun Khan
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Oracle BI 12c Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing the Prerequisite Software 3. Installing on Windows Server 2012 4. Reviewing the Features of the Reporting Repository 5. Installing and Configuring Client Tools 6. Understanding the Systems Management Tools 7. Developing the BI Server Repository 8. Creating Dashboards and Analyses 9. Agents and Action Framework 10. Developing Reports Using BI Publisher 11. Usage Tracking 12. Improving Performance 13. Using the BI Admin Change Management Utilities 14. Ancillary Installation Options 15. Reporting Databases 16. Customizing the Style of Dashboards 17. Upgrading to 12c

Creating our first Dashboard


The Dashboard is the place that most of your users will be viewing the data. You create a Dashboard and usually place one or more analyses on a Dashboard page. You can have pages with just text on too. You can have several pages on a Dashboard, each with their own analysis.

Let's get stuck into creating:

  1. Click on New on the top bar.

  2. Select Dashboard from the list

  3. Enter the Dashboard Name and Description, then choose the location of your Dashboard. Choose the Book folder which is in the Shared Folder.

  4. Leave the Content option set to Add Content Now. Click OK:

    You are now presented with a blank Dashboard page:

  5. Expand the Shared Folders folder in the Catalog pane (bottom left panel).

  6. Expand the Book folder.

  7. Click on the Analysis One object, and drag it on the main blue panel. Drop it there:

    You will now see that Column 1 has been created, with Section 1 inside the column, and Analysis One is inside the section:

  8. Click on the Save button.

  9. Click on the Run button.

    You are...

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