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Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

You're reading from   Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology Take your data warehousing and business intelligence to the next level with this practical guide to Oracle Database 11g. Packed with illustrations, tips, and examples, it has over 80 advanced recipes to fine-tune your skills and knowledge.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849685481
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
1. Preface
1. Defining a Program FREE CHAPTER 2. Establishing the Project 3. Controlling the Project 4. Wrapping Up the Project 5. The Blueprint 6. Analyzing the Requirements 7. Architecture and Design 8. Analyzing the Sources 9. Analyzing the Data 10. Constructing the Data Model 11. Defining the ETL/ELT 12. Enhancing the Data 13. Optimizing the Access 14. Security

Enabling dynamic column headings


Reporting heading changes can be frequent within a solution during development, and in ongoing processes through the life of the solution. Each time, this normally entails changing the actual reports, and then releasing the changes to production. Externalized strings give one the capabilities to maintain the headings without changing the report code.

Getting ready

OBIEE has the framework for creating custom headings which are externalized strings. To enable this, open the BI Administration Tool and open the repository file (RPD).

How to do it...

The repository file stores all the definitions of the subject areas and data model. This is located on the middle-tier server:

  1. 1. Select the presentation layer objects to be customized. It is not necessary to select all the objects or a whole subject area; the technique can be used for a reduced set of objects.

  2. 2. Right-click on the subject area. Select Externalize Display Names | Generate Custom Name, as shown in the...

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