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Process of Configuring Oracle BI Action Links

Oracle Business Intelligence applications contain prebuilt action links in reports and dashboards. Action links are a way to navigate from a user's analytics dashboard to a record in a Siebel operational application, such as Oracle's Siebel Call Center.

For example, you can drill down directly from a Sales Analytics dashboard to a specific record in a Siebel Sales view. The link is based on the row-ID column contained in a report. You can also create new action links for any existing report. For how to create Interactive Oracle Dashboards action links, see Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services Administration Guide.

Depending on your deployment, you may need to perform additional configuration of your Oracle Business Intelligence application in order for the action links feature to work properly. The following tasks are relevant to the configuration of your application for action links:

• Testing Action Links