Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)

11g Release 1 (11.1.1)

E10545-03

Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

- Audience

- Documentation Accessibility

- Related Documents

- Conventions

New Features for Oracle Business Intelligence Developers

- New Features for Oracle BI 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6)

- New Features for Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5)

- New Features for Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.3)

- System Requirements and Certification

1 Embedding Business Intelligence Objects in ADF Applications

- 1.1 Overview of Embedding Business Intelligence Objects in Applications

- 1.2 Business Intelligence Objects That You Can Add to ADF Pages

- 1.3 Embedded Business Intelligence Objects Use Cases

- 1.4 Preparing the ADF Project to Accept Business Intelligence Objects

- 1.4.1 How to Prepare the ADF Project

- 1.4.1.1 Checking for Installed JDeveloper Extensions

- 1.4.1.2 Installing the Required JDeveloper Extensions

- 1.4.1.3 About Oracle BI EE Personalizations in ADF Applications

- 1.4.1.4 Adding the MDS Libraries and Enabling MDS Customizations

- 1.4.1.5 Adding the ADF Technology Scopes

- 1.5 Creating an Oracle BI EE Presentation Services Connection

- 1.5.1 How to Configure SSL and Create an Oracle BI EE Presentation Services Connection

- 1.5.1.1 Configuring SSL

- 1.5.1.2 Exporting and Importing the Client Certificate

- 1.5.1.3 Creating a connection

- 1.6 Adding Oracle Business Intelligence Objects to ADF Pages

- 1.6.1 How to Add Business Intelligence Objects to an ADF Page

- 1.7 Passing Business Intelligence Content with the Oracle BI EE Contextual Event Action

- 1.7.1 What Is the Definition of the QDR?

- 1.7.2 What Is the Signature of the QDR?

- 1.8 Adding or Modifying a Presentation Services Connection After Deployment

- 1.8.1 How to Add or Modify a Presentation Services Connection

- 1.8.1.1 Adding or Modifying a Presentation Services Connection

- 1.9 Credentials for Connecting to the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog

- 1.9.1 How to Create and Use Impersonate User

- 1.9.1.1 Create the BIImpersonateUser

- 1.9.1.2 Grant Permissions to BIImpersonateUser

- 1.9.1.3 Restart Servers

2 Improving The Performance of ADF Applications That Contain Oracle BI EE Objects

- 2.1 Setting an Oracle BI Server Timeout

- 2.1.1 How to Set the Oracle BI Server Timeout

- 2.1.2 Examples of Timeout Settings

- 2.2 Adding a Session Timeout

- 2.2.1 How to Add a Session Timeout

- 2.3 Using Static Resources

- 2.3.1 How to Set Static Resources Preferences

- 2.3.2 Testing The Static Resources Location

3 Adding BI Composer to ADF Applications

- 3.1 Overview of Using BI Composer with ADF Application

- 3.2 Adding BI Composer to an ADF Application

- 3.2.1 Checking for Installed JDeveloper Extensions

- 3.2.2 Installing the Required JDeveloper Extensions

- 3.2.3 How to Add the BI Composer Library Reference

- 3.2.4 How to Extend the Domain

- 3.2.5 How to Add the Task Flow Parameters and Events

- 3.2.5.1 BI Composer Wizard Editor Task Flow

- 3.2.5.2 BI Composer Wizard Edit Events

- 3.2.5.3 BI Composer Wizard Viewer Task Flow Parameters

4 Using the Oracle BI EE Logical SQL View Object

- 4.1 Introduction to the Oracle BI EE Logical SQL View Object

- 4.2 Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object Use Cases

- 4.2.1 Displaying Data from Logical SQL in an ADF-Rich User Interface Component

- 4.2.2 Displaying Data from Logical SQL and Passing in a Runtime Parameter

- 4.2.3 Displaying Data from the Online Transaction Processing Schema and Logical SQL Together in an ADF-Rich Component

- 4.2.4 Creating a Master-Detail Relationship Between an Oracle Business Intelligence View Object and an Online Transaction Processing View Object

- 4.3 Creating an Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object

- 4.3.1 How to Create an Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object

- 4.3.1.1 Checking for Installed JDeveloper Extensions

- 4.3.1.2 Installing the Required Business Intelligence JDeveloper Extensions

- 4.3.1.3 Creating a BI JDBC Connection

- 4.3.1.4 Initializing the ADF Project

- 4.3.1.5 Creating the Business Intelligence View Object

- 4.3.1.6 Modifying the Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object's Behavior

- 4.4 Creating a BI JDBC Data Source

- 4.4.1 How to Create a BI JDBC Data Source in Oracle WebLogic

- 4.4.2 Configuring the BI JDBC Data Source for Impersonation

5 Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services With an Oracle WebCenter Portal Application

- 5.1 Overview of the Oracle BI Presentation Services and WebCenter Portal Application Integration

- 5.2 Creating a WebCenter Portal Application that Integrates with Oracle BI Presentation Services

- 5.3 Can I Add BI Composer to a WebCenter Portal Application or to WebCenter Portal: Spaces?

- 5.4 Adding BI Composer to a WebCenter Portal Application or to WebCenter Portal: Spaces

- 5.4.1 Checking for Installed JDeveloper Extensions

- 5.4.2 Installing the Required JDeveloper Extensions

- 5.4.3 How to extend the WebCenter Portal domain

- 5.4.4 How to Add the BI Composer Library Reference

- 5.4.5 How to Add Task Flow Permission Security

- 5.4.6 How to Specify the BI Composer WebCenter Portal Viewer and Editor Container Task Flow Parameters

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Oracle® Fusion Middleware

Developer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

11g Release 1 (11.1.1)

E10545-03

December 2011

Explains how to incorporate Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition functionality into applications built using Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF), and Oracle WebCenter.

Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)

E10545-03

Copyright © 2010, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Primary Author: Stefanie Rhone

Contributors: Oracle Business Intelligence development, product management, and quality assurance teams

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Preface

The Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite is a complete, open, and integrated solution for all enterprise business intelligence needs, including reporting, ad hoc queries, OLAP, dashboards, scorecards, and what-if analysis. The Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite includes Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE) is a comprehensive set of enterprise business intelligence tools and infrastructure, including a scalable and efficient query and analysis server, an ad-hoc query and analysis tool, interactive dashboards, proactive intelligence and alerts, and an enterprise reporting engine.

The components of Oracle BI EE share a common service-oriented architecture, data access services, analytic and calculation infrastructure, metadata management services, semantic business model, security model and user preferences, and administration tools. Oracle BI EE provides scalability and performance with data-source specific optimized request generation, optimized data access, advanced calculation, intelligent caching services, and clustering.

This guide contains information about developing Oracle BI EE-based applications and integrations between Oracle BI EE and other Oracle systems.

Audience

This document is intended for application developers, data service providers, and middle tier administrators who want to programatically access and use the Oracle BI EE components to create applications or integrations with other components.

Documentation Accessibility

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) documentation set:

- The Oracle Business Intelligence chapter of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Release Notes for your platform

- Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

- Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

- Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence for your platform

- Oracle Fusion Middleware Integrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

- Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence

- Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

Conventions

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New Features for Oracle Business Intelligence Developers

This preface describes new features and upgrade considerations in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g Release 1 (11.1.1).

This preface contains the following topics:

- "New Features for Oracle BI 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6)"

- "New Features for Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5)"

- "New Features for Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.3)"

- "System Requirements and Certification"

New Features for Oracle BI 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6)

New features in Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6) include:

New Features for Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5)

New features in Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5) include:

- "Static Resources"

- "WSDL Context"

- "Override Impersonate User Option"

- "BI Composer Configuration"

Static Resources

You can now configure an Oracle BI Presentation Services connection to use static files that reside on the Oracle BI server or another server. The Static Resources Mode and Static Resources Location fields were added to the BI Presentation Services Connection wizard to allow you to specify your static resources preferences. The practise of using static resources increases the performance of ADF applications that contain Oracle BI EE objects.

For more information, see Chapter 2, "Improving The Performance of ADF Applications That Contain Oracle BI EE Objects."

WSDL Context

This release allows you to specify the WSDL context. The WSDL Context field was added to the BI Presentation Services Connection wizard for situations where the System Administrator changes the default context from "analytics-ws" to something else.

For more information, see "How to Configure SSL and Create an Oracle BI EE Presentation Services Connection".

Override Impersonate User Option

The Perform impersonation when security is enabled field was added to allow you to disable the impersonate user credentials in cases where ADF security is enabled for your applications.

For more information, see "How to Configure SSL and Create an Oracle BI EE Presentation Services Connection".

BI Composer Configuration

You can add the BI Composer component to ADF applications, WebCenter Portal applications, and WebCenter Portal: Spaces. BI Composer provides functionality that allows end users to quickly and easily create, edit, or view the design of Oracle BI EE analyses from ADF applications, WebCenter Portal applications, and WebCenter Portal: Spaces.

For more information, see Chapter 3, "Adding BI Composer to ADF Applications" and Chapter 5, "Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services With an Oracle WebCenter Portal Application".

New Features for Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.3)

New features in Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.3) include:

- "Embedding Business Intelligence Objects Into ADF Applications"

- "Oracle BI EE Logical SQL View Object"

- "Integrating the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog With WebCenter Portal Applications"

Embedding Business Intelligence Objects Into ADF Applications

You can add business intelligence objects stored in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog to ADF applications. This functionality is delivered through Oracle BI EE extensions that you plug into Oracle JDeveloper. Any filters, prompts, or action links included in business intelligence objects will work as designed when included in an ADF application.

For information, see Chapter 1, "Embedding Business Intelligence Objects in ADF Applications".

Oracle BI EE Logical SQL View Object

When creating ADF applications, you can use the Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object to access the Oracle Business Intelligence Server, fetch Oracle BI EE data, and bind that data to native ADF components. This method requires you to create a JDBC connection to the Oracle Business Intelligence Server. The functionality to build the BI JDBC connection is standard JDeveloper functionality.

The remaining functionality required to bind the data to ADF view objects is delivered through Oracle BI EE extensions that you plug into JDeveloper.

For information, see Chapter 4, "Using the Oracle BI EE Logical SQL View Object".

Integrating the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog With WebCenter Portal Applications

This release of Oracle BI EE supports integration with Oracle WebCenter Portal. You can use JDeveloper to create and configure a WebCenter Portal application that integrates with the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog so that at runtime, users can open and browse the catalog and add business intelligence objects to WebCenter Portal: Spaces.

For information, see Chapter 5, "Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services With an Oracle WebCenter Portal Application".

System Requirements and Certification

Refer to the system requirements and certification documentation for information about hardware and software requirements, platforms, databases, and other information. Both of these documents are available on Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

The system requirements document covers information such as hardware and software requirements, minimum disk space and memory requirements, and required system libraries, packages, or patches:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/fusion_requirements.htm

The certification document covers supported installation types, platforms, operating systems, databases, JDKs, and third-party products:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/fusion_certification.html

1 Embedding Business Intelligence Objects in ADF Applications

This chapter explains how to add business intelligence objects to ADF applications. Examples of business intelligence objects include analyses, dashboards, and Scorecard components.

This chapter includes the following sections:

- "Overview of Embedding Business Intelligence Objects in Applications"

- "Business Intelligence Objects That You Can Add to ADF Pages"

- "Embedded Business Intelligence Objects Use Cases"

- "Preparing the ADF Project to Accept Business Intelligence Objects"

- "Creating an Oracle BI EE Presentation Services Connection"

- "Adding Oracle Business Intelligence Objects to ADF Pages"

- "Passing Business Intelligence Content with the Oracle BI EE Contextual Event Action"

- "Adding or Modifying a Presentation Services Connection After Deployment"

- "Credentials for Connecting to the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog"

1.1 Overview of Embedding Business Intelligence Objects in Applications

Embedding business intelligence objects allows you to access the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog and choose Oracle BI EE objects, such as analyses and dashboards, to include in ADF pages. In most cases, the objects that you add to ADF pages are created to fit the theme of an ADF page and application. When you add an object to an ADF page, that page will contain a reference to the object and does not contain a copy of the object. When the object is modified and saved to the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, any changes will appear in the ADF application when the user runs the form.

After the business intelligence object is added to the ADF page, you can wire it to other regions on the ADF page. You can also set any filter or prompt parameters for the object. You can also set up security and change the Presentation Services connection after the application is deployed.

Note that the Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object allows you to access the Oracle Business Intelligence Server to create ADF applications that bind native ADF components to Oracle BI EE data. For more information about this method of adding business intelligence data to ADF pages, see Chapter 4, "Using the Oracle BI EE Logical SQL View Object".

1.2 Business Intelligence Objects That You Can Add to ADF Pages

The business intelligence objects that you can include in ADF applications are stored in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog's folders. You can include the following types of business intelligence objects in ADF applications:

- Analyses (Note that you can expand and browse the folders to view an analysis' subcomponents. The following view types appear in the catalog: table, pivot table, chart, funnel chart, gauge, narrative, ticker and title.)

- Dashboards (Note that you can browse inside the dashboard folder to find the pages that are associated with the dashboard.)

- Dashboard Pages (Note that you cannot browse within the dashboard pages to see components. Such as, any analyses embedded in the dashboard.)

- Scorecard components (Note that you cannot include an entire Scorecard; only its components. These components are: strategy maps, strategy trees, KPI watchlists, cause and effect maps, and custom views.)

1.3 Embedded Business Intelligence Objects Use Cases

Use the following use cases to help you better understand why you would embed business intelligence objects in ADF applications. For specific information about creating the business intelligence objects and adding them to an ADF application, see the procedural topics in this chapter and Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Fusion Middleware Fusion Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework.

- Supply chain managers want to view the analysis summarizing the status of orders in different sectors and availability of items in the warehouse along with other transactional data.

- A marketing manager for an online shopping site wants to see buyers' trend information, such as age group, geographic distribution, and personal interests, in a dashboard to analyze the user data and use it to determine future marketing strategies.

- A sales manager wants to see the sales analysis for different regions with conditional formatting and take an action if the sales is trending below a minimum threshold. This analysis with an action link can be created in the Oracle BI EE application and embedded into the ADF application.

1.4 Preparing the ADF Project to Accept Business Intelligence Objects

To properly prepare the ADF project for the addition of business intelligence objects, you must add the required MDS libraries (MDS Runtime and MDS Runtime Dependencies) to the ADF project and add the BI ADF Components technology scope to the ADF project.

1.4.1 How to Prepare the ADF Project

Use the following procedures to prepare the ADF project to accept business intelligence content. Before you can perform the following tasks, you must have created an ADF project to which you will add business intelligence content.

When you have completed the procedures in this topic, you can create an Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Presentation Services connection to access the catalog from which to select business intelligence objects to embed in your application. For more information, see "Creating an Oracle BI EE Presentation Services Connection".

1.4.1.1 Checking for Installed JDeveloper Extensions

Oracle JDeveloper offers the following Oracle BI EE extensions:

- Business Intelligence ADF Task Flow

- Business Intelligence ADF View Regions

- Business Intelligence Composer

- Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Objects

- Business Intelligence Soap Connection

Use this procedure if you are not sure whether you have the required Oracle JDeveloper 11g extensions and Oracle BI EE extensions.

1. In JDeveloper, click the Help menu and click About. The "About Oracle JDeveloper 11g" dialog displays where you can confirm the release number.

2. Click the Extensions tab to view a list of the installed extensions. To sort the list, click either the Name or Identifier column heading.
Note that all Oracle BI EE extensions contain the "bi-" prefix. If no extensions begin with the "bi-" prefix, then you do not have the required extensions.

1.4.1.2 Installing the Required JDeveloper Extensions

Use this procedure to install the required extensions.

1. From the JDeveloper Help menu, select Check for Updates.

2. Follow the steps in the wizard to locate, download, and install the Oracle BI EE extensions. If you will create a WebCenter Portal application that integrates with Oracle BI EE, then you need to also install the WebCenter Portal framework.
For a list of the available Oracle BI EE extensions, see "Checking for Installed JDeveloper Extensions".

1.4.1.3 About Oracle BI EE Personalizations in ADF Applications

Personalizations for dashboards, dashboard pages, analyses, and views are saved automatically if the ADF application is configured for personalizations. Personalizations can be stored at the user level or the group level.

Users can personalize the following items when they exist on a dashboard region on an ADF page:

- Values for dashboard prompts

- Values for presentation variables (These variables are usually set by a prompt.)

- Values for column selectors

- Drills, sorts, and pivot/swap on a view

Users cannot personalize the following business intelligence content types:

- Dashboard pages

- Stand-alone Scorecard components

1.4.1.4 Adding the MDS Libraries and Enabling MDS Customizations

If you want to save site and user application personalizations such as prompt values, then you must add the following libraries to the ADF project and confirm that the MDS customizations have been properly enabled. MDS stores application metadata and also stores and retrieves customizations at various levels within the ADF application.

To add the MDS libraries to the ADF project:

1. In JDeveloper, go to the Project Pane, right click the project to which you want to add the MDS libraries, and select Project Properties.

2. Select Libraries and Classpath.

3. Click the Add Library button, highlight MDS Runtime and MDS Runtime Dependencies, and click OK.

4. From the left pane of the Project Properties dialog, select ADF View.

5. Confirm that the following options are selected:

- Enable User Customizations

- Across Sessions using MDS

- Enable Seeded Customizations

6. In the Project Properties screen, click OK.

1.4.1.5 Adding the ADF Technology Scopes

Perform this procedure to add the proper technology scopes to the ADF project.

Technology scopes are ADF project attributes that are used to identify the different technologies used for the project. Selecting the BI ADF Components technology scope adds the ADF Faces, Java, JSF, and JSP and Servlets technology scopes to the ADF project.

To add the ADF technology scopes to the ADF project:

1. In JDeveloper, go to the Projects Pane and right-mouse click on the project to which you want to add the technology scopes and select Project Properties.

2. Select Technology Scope.

3. In the Available Technologies list, select BI ADF Components and click the Add button. JDeveloper adds the required BI technologies to the Selected Technologies list.

4. Click OK.

1.5 Creating an Oracle BI EE Presentation Services Connection

Before you can add business intelligence objects to an ADF application, you must configure SSL, export and import a certificate, and create a data connection to Oracle BI EE Presentation Services.

1.5.1 How to Configure SSL and Create an Oracle BI EE Presentation Services Connection

Use the following procedures to configure SSL, export and import the certificate, and create a connection to Oracle BI EE Presentation Services. Before you can perform the following tasks, you must have first created an ADF project and prepared it to accept business intelligence content. For more information about preparing the project, see "Preparing the ADF Project to Accept Business Intelligence Objects".

Note:

If you receive a certificate error when using the application, you may need to import the client certificate into your browser.

1.5.1.1 Configuring SSL

To enable secure communication, you must configure Oracle BI EE Presentation Services to communicate over SSL.

For more information about SSL and how to configure it in Oracle Business Intelligence, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

1.5.1.2 Exporting and Importing the Client Certificate

After you configure SSL, you must export the Web application client certificate from the key store and import it into JDeveloper.

To export and import the client certificate:

1. Identify the location of the server key store. This path is usually ORACLE_HOME/oraclebi/wlserver_10.3/server/lib/DemoIdentity.jks

2. Using the server key store location, run the following command:
cd %ORACLE_HOME%/oraclebi/wlserver_10.3/server/lib/

%JAVA_HOME%\bin\keytool -export -alias wlscertgencab -file my.crt -keystore DemoTrust.jks -storepass DemoTrustKeyStorePassPhrase

3. Import the client certificate into JDeveloper. This step prevents SOAP errors from occurring when you create an Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services connection.

1. Copy the certificate into JDeveloper's JRE. The location will be jdev\jdk\jre\lib\security or oracle\jdk\jre\lib\security

2. Run the following command to import the certificate. Note that the default password for the Java default keystore file $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts is changeit.
keytool -v -import -file my.crt -keystore cacerts

4. Import the client certificate into JDeveloper's JRE. This step prevents errors from occurring when sending SOAP requests for https://server:port/analytics/saw.dll?privateWSDL in SSL mode.

1. Open JDeveloper and locate the -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore parameter. For example, -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore= C:\ADE\jdevmain3\oracle\wlserver_10.3\server\lib\DemoTrust.jks.
Note that this parameter contains the client trustStore location and stores the key and certificate that the client uses to verify the server's certificate.

2. Run the following command to import the certificate to this client trustStore:
%ORACLE_HOME%\oracle\jdk\bin\keytool -import -alias test -file <client_cert_filename> -keystore <keystorefile> -keypass <key_password>

1.5.1.3 Creating a connection

You can add connections to one or more installation of Presentation Services. Depending upon where you created and saved the connection, the connection name will appear either within the Resource Palette's IDE Connections panel or the Application Navigator's Application Resources panel.

When you expand the connection's name, JDeveloper shows the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog's folders and the objects stored in the folders. From the folders, you can drag and drop business intelligence objects from the resource palette to the ADF page.

This connection only needs to be built once per catalog; however, after the connection is built, its parameters can be edited at design time within JDeveloper.

Note:

A Presentation Services connection can be added or modified during or after the ADF application is deployed. For more information, see "Adding or Modifying a Presentation Services Connection After Deployment".

To create a connection

1. In JDeveloper, choose where you want the connection to be used. Use the following substeps if you want to create the connection to be available for any JDeveloper application.

1. Navigate to the Resource Palette, click the New button.

2. From the list, select BI Presentation Services. The Create BI Presentation Services Connection wizard displays.

Note:

JDeveloper allows you to drag and drop a saved connection from the Resource Palette to the Application Resources pane.

2. Use the following substeps if you want to create the connection to be available for the current application, only:

1. Navigate to the Application Navigator tab and then to the Application Resources pane., right click on the Connections folder, and select New Connections and then select BI Presentation Services. The Create BI Presentation Services Connection wizard displays.

2. Right click on the Connections folder and select New Connections.

3. Select BI Presentation Services. The Create BI Presentation Services Connection wizard displays.

3. Enter a unique, descriptive name that identifies the catalog connection. Note that after you finish creating the connection, the name cannot be changed.

4. Click Next.

5. Enter the Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services location and make selections for the following items.

- Protocol– Choose http or https from the drop down list.

- BI Presentation Services Host– Type the location of the server where Oracle Business Intelligence is installed, for example, abc12345.mycompany.com.

- BI Presentation Services Port– Enter the port number for the host. This number is usually 9704.

- BI Presentation Services Virtual Directory– Enter analytics in lower case.

- WSDL Context– Enter the context to which you want to deploy the WSDL application. Modify this field only if the System Administrator has changed the default context from "analytics-ws" to something else. For example, mycompanyname-ws. The SOAP connection will use the context specified in this field.

- Static Resources Mode– Specify from where to retrieve static resources.
Select Auto to direct all requests to Oracle BI Presentation Services rather than to the Oracle BI proxy. Selecting Auto results in a significant increase in performance. Note that Auto mode provides the best performance if Oracle WebLogic Server resides behind Oracle HTTP Server or Apache HTTP Server and you are bypassing Oracle WebLogic Server for serving static files.

Select Manual to direct requests to another location. If you select Manual, you must specify a URL in the Static Resources Location field.

- Static Resources Location– (Optional) If you selected Manual in the Static Resources Mode field, then enter the location of the deployed static resources if they are not located within the Oracle BI installation. The URL format must be http://host:port/analytics. Examples of static resources are .css and .javascript. Or, leave this field blank if Oracle BI resides behind a firewall but the ports to the ADF instance are not behind a firewall. For more information about setting up static resources, see "Improving Oracle BI Web Client Performance" in Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

6. Click Next.

7. Specify the user name and password for the Presentation Services connection.

Note:

If ADF security is enabled for the application, you must change the username and password to Impersonate User credentials before you deploy the application. For more information, see "How to Create and Use Impersonate User".

8. If ADF security is enabled for your application, set the Perform impersonation when security is enabled field to False to disable the Impersonate User credentials. If you set this field to False, you must also specify the necessary credentials in the User Name and Password fields on this screen. For more information about credentials, see "Credentials for Connecting to the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog".
If ADF security is enabled for your application and you want to use the Impersonate User credentials, leave this field set to True.

If ADF security is not enabled for your application, you do not have to modify this field. This field is only applied to applications where ADF security is enabled.

9. Click Next

10. Click Test Connection to verify that the connection information is correct. If your test connection fails, JDeveloper will provide you with error messages that will help you troubleshoot the problem.

11. Click Finish to create the connection.

1.6 Adding Oracle Business Intelligence Objects to ADF Pages

When you drag and drop a business intelligence object that contains filters or parameters to the JSPX page, JDeveloper inserts the <adfbi:content> element. This tag references a biContent element in the page definition file using the following EL expression:

<adfbi:content id="myBIRegion" value="#{bindings.biContent}"/>

At runtime, this element returns the markup for the selected business intelligence component and defines the parameters that the region can accept as input. There is one parameter for each prompt in the underlying analysis, or one parameter for the underlying filter or prompt for the underlying dashboard. The biContent element contains the default values, and you can edit the values of these parameters and replace them with Expression Language (EL) or literals. This allows you to use JDeveloper's Expression Language to wire the parameters to other components on the page.

The biContent element also accepts the setParameters ADF contextual event. You can map the payload for this event to the parameters exposed by the dashboard region in the pagedef file. For example:

<eventMap xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adfm/event">
<event name="setParameters">
<producer region="doInputs">
<consumer handler="biExecBinding1">
<parameters>
<parameter name="Products.Brand" value="${payLoad.input1}"/>
<parameter name='Periods."Year"' value="${payLoad.input2}"/>
</parameters>
</consumer>
</producer>
</event>
</eventMap>

If the dashboard or dashboard page contains analyses that use presentation variables and there are no visible prompts on the dashboard to set these variables, the dashboard designer must add hidden prompts to set the variables. When the dashboard is included on an ADF page, the hidden prompts are available for context passing.

1.6.1 How to Add Business Intelligence Objects to an ADF Page

All business intelligence objects added to the ADF page inherit styles from the current ADF skin.

Before you perform the following tasks, you must have first created an ADF project, prepared it to accept business intelligence content, and created a server connection. For more information about these tasks, see "Preparing the ADF Project to Accept Business Intelligence Objects" and "Creating an Oracle BI EE Presentation Services Connection".

To add business intelligence objects to an ADF page and specify filter or prompt parameters

1. In JDeveloper, go to the Resource Palette, select the data connection, and browse for the business intelligence content that you want to add to the ADF page.

2. Drag and drop the item onto the page.

Note:

If new or revised business intelligence content was saved to the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, the JDeveloper catalog connection must be refreshed so that all new and revised business intelligence content is available.

3. If the item includes prompts or filters, the Parameters screen appears, listing the analysis or dashboard prompts and filters. To specify an override parameter value, place your cursor in the Value field and type the parameter value.

4. To either build an expression or bind the content item to a managed bean, click the Ellipsis button. The EL window appears. For more information about building EL expressions or using the EL screen for data binding, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Fusion Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework.

5. Save the JSPX page.

6. In the Projects area, which is located in the left pane, locate the file name for the page upon which you are working, right-click, and select Run.
Note that if any type of security was set for the application, you will be prompted for a user name and password.

1.7 Passing Business Intelligence Content with the Oracle BI EE Contextual Event Action

The Oracle BI EE ADF Contextual Event action is delivered with Oracle BI EE and uses the Oracle BI EE Action Framework. At design time, the analysis designer determines which column should contain the Oracle BI EE ADF Contextual Event action, and from the New Action Link menu, selects ADF Contextual Event. At runtime, the Oracle BI EE ADF Contextual Event action passes content from the business intelligence object (analysis) to another region on the ADF page or another ADF contextual event on the ADF page.

The Oracle BI EE ADF Contextual Event action takes no parameters and can be conditionally rendered. When the user accesses the ADF page and clicks a data cell containing the Oracle BI EE ADF Contextual Event action or if the cell is tied to a condition and that condition's threshold has been met, the system generates an Oracle BI EE ADF Contextual Event action that has a qualified data reference (QDR) of the cell as its payload.

Suppose that the ADF designer wants to create a business intelligence region on an ADF page that contains functionality that will automatically promote any employee whose three previous employee reviews were rated as "Outstanding." To accomplish this task, the business intelligence content designer would include the Oracle BI EE ADF Contextual Event action on the analysis' Employee Name column and include a label of "Promote."

1.7.1 What Is the Definition of the QDR?

Below is the QDR's definition:

/**
* String representation of QDR with use of internal Ids
* <pre>
*  qdr
*   : '{"_m":' memberGroups (',"_q":'  qdrQualifier)? '}'
*  memberGroups
*   : '[' memberGroup (',' memberGroup)* ']'
*  qdrQualifier
*   : '{' ('"_t":[' scalarMember ']') | ('"_p":[' ('true' | 'false') ']') '}'
*  memberGroup
*   : '"_g":{' dimensionMembers (',"_l":'  groupQualifier)? '}'
*  groupQualifier
*   : '"' ('M' | 'G') '"'
*  dimensionMembers
*   : '"' IDENT '":' ('[]' | arrayMembers | hierarchyLevelsMembers)
*  hierarchyLevelsMembers
*   : '{' hierarchyLevelMembers (, hierarchyLevelMembers)* '}'
*  hierarchyLevelMembers
*   : '"' IDENT '":' ('[]' | arrayMembers)
*  arrayMembers
*   : '[' member (',' member)* ']'
*  member
*   : scalarMember | arrayMembers | qualifiedMember
*  scalarMember
*   : string | number | datetime
*  datetime
*   : string
*  qualifiedMember
*   : '{"_v":' scalarMember ',"_s":"' ('A' | 'E' | 'T' | 'P') '"}'
*  IDENT
*   : ('a' .. 'z' | 'A'..'Z' | '0' .. '9')+
*
*  _m: member groups
*  _q: QDR qualifier; _t or _p
*  _t: target; column identifier
*  _p: measure target; true or false
*  _g: member group
*  _l: member group qualifier; 'M' or 'G'
*  _v: member value
*  _s: member special value; 'A', 'E', 'T' or 'P'
*
*  Group Qualifiers:
*  M - Measure Dimension
*  G - Selection Group Dimension
*  For such dimensions, the dimension identifier is irrelevant; we
typically make it "_"
*  For measure dimension, members are measure columns
*  For selection group dimension, members are group Id Strings
*
*  Qualified Members: Members that are qualified by a special value
qualifier such as:
*  A - All
*  E - Every
*  T - Display Total Id
*  P - Path to catalog object
*
*  Dimension identifier for hierarchical columns is of the form:
"dimensionId:hierarchyId"
*
*  <b>
*  Examples:
*  </b>
*
*  Region (id "c0") West, East
*  Year (id "c1") 2000
*  {'_m':[{'_g':{'c0':['West','East']}}, {'_g':{'c1':[2000]}}]}
*
*  Region (id "c0") West, East
*  Year (id "c1") 2000
*  Target  Region
*  {'_m':[{'_g':{'c0':['West','East']}}, {'_g':{'c1':[2000]}}], '_q':
{'_t':['c0']}}
*
*  Geog dimension (id "d1"), Default hierarchy (id "h1"), State Level
(id "l1")  CA, WA
*  {'_m':[{'_g':{'d1:h1':{'l1':['CA','WA']}}}]}
*
*  Geog dimension (id "d1"), Default hierarchy (id "h1"), State Level
(id "l1") and City Level (id "l2") CA, WA, SJC
*  {'_m':[{'_g':{'d1:h1':{'l1':['CA','WA'], 'l2':['SJC']}}}]}
*
*  Region (id "c0") West, East
*  Measures Sales (id "c3"), Profit (id "c4")
*  {'_m':[{'_g':{'c0':['West','East']}}, {'_g':{'_':['c3','c4']}, '_l':'M'}]}
*
*  Region (id "c0") West, East
*  Year (id "c1") 2007, MyFavYears
*  {'_m':[{'_g':{'c0':['West','East']}}, {'_g':{'c1':[2007,{'_v':
'MyFavYears', '_s':'P'}]}}]}
*
*  Geog dimension (id "d1"), Default hierarchy (id "h1"),
State Level (id "l1") CA, WA and City Level (id "l2") MyFavCities
*  {'_m':[{'_g':{'d1:h1':{'l1':['CA','WA'], 'l2':[{'_v':'MyFavCities',
'_s':'P'}]}}}]}
*
*  Region (id "c0") West, East
*  Measures Sales (id "c3")
*  Measure Target
*  {'_m':[{'_g':{'c0':['West','East']}}, {'_g':{'_':['c3']}, '_l':'M'}], '
_q':{'_p':true}}
*  </pre>
*
* @param propIdExprMap          Map of column expressions key'ed by column Id
*/

1.7.2 What Is the Signature of the QDR?

Below is the QDR's signature:

public static QDR fromString(String qdrStr) throws BISvsException

1.8 Adding or Modifying a Presentation Services Connection After Deployment

Oracle BI EE provides an ADF MBean that allows you to add a new connection to a deployed BI ADF or to the WebCenter Portal: Spaces application. You can also modify a deployed application's existing connection. MBeans are deployed with the application and can be accessed post-deployment using Fusion Middleware Control.

If you did not configure SSL at design time, you can configure it after deployment. For more information, see "How to Configure SSL and Create an Oracle BI EE Presentation Services Connection".

1.8.1 How to Add or Modify a Presentation Services Connection

Use the following procedures to add or modify a Presentation Services connection used by a deployed application.

1.8.1.1 Adding or Modifying a Presentation Services Connection

Use the following procedure to configure the connection after the application was deployed.

1. Open Fusion Middleware Control and select your WebLogic domain.

2. If your application is deployed in the BI ADF domain, select the Application Deployments <your domain>tree node.
If your application is deployed in the WebCenter Portal: Spaces domain, select the Web Center tree node, and then select the WebCenter Spaces tree node, and then the webcenter (WLS_Spaces) tree node.

3. From the list, select System MBean Browser. The System MBean Browser pane displays within the Fusion Middleware Control page.

4. In the System MBean Browser pane, navigate to the ADF Connections tree node by following the below path:

1. Select the Application Defined MBeans tree node.

2. Select the oracle.adf.share.connections tree node.

3. Select the Server: <my server name> tree node. For example, Server:DefaultServer or Server:WLS_Spaces.

4. Select the Application:<your application's name> tree node. For example, Application:Application2 or Application:webcenter.

5. Select the ADF Connections tree node.

6. Select the ADF Connections tree node. The corresponding MBean information displays in the Application Defined MBean pane.

5. In the Application Defined MBean pane, click the Operations tab and then click createConnection/findOrCreateConnection to create a Presentation Services connection.The Operation:createConnection dialog displays.

6. Specify the required values for the connection. In the connection type Value field, type BISoapConnection. Type a name in the connection name Value field. Click Invoke to create the connection.

7. In the System MBean Browser pane, click Refresh to refresh the tree so that the new connection displays.

8. To modify the connection, locate it in the System MBean Browser pane and click it. The connection's information displays in the Application Defined MBean pane.

9. Click the Attributes tab and enter the BISoap connection information. Click the Apply button to apply your changes.

10. Click the Operations tab and click save to save the connection.

1.9 Credentials for Connecting to the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog

At design time, you need to specify credentials to connect to the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. These credentials are used to retrieve the list of business intelligence objects (for example, analyses, dashboards, and scorecard components) from the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog.

This process ensures that the login to the Presentation Server is the same as the current user of the application and any access checks are performed as the current user, and data is fetched as the current user. If the ADF page contains business intelligence objects to which the user does not have access, the ADF page returns a message stating that the user does not have the proper permissions to access these objects.

1.9.1 How to Create and Use Impersonate User

Use the following procedures to create and use the BIImpersonateUser user to secure an application that uses an Oracle BI EE Presentation Services connection and includes Oracle BI EE objects. ADF security must be enabled for your application before you can apply the impersonate user credentials to the Oracle BI EE Presentation Services connection.

The Impersonate User feature secures applications that contain Oracle BI EE objects when Oracle BI EE and ADF are not sharing an Oracle Internet Directory (OID). Before you begin the process of creating and using Impersonate User, you must confirm that this capability is configured in your environment.

1.9.1.1 Create the BIImpersonateUser

Before you perform this procedure, make sure that either you or the Administrator have created users in the WebLogic Server's Oracle BI EE realm and assigned the BIConsumer role to each user in this realm.

Use the following procedure to use WebLogic Server Console to create the BIImpersonateUser user.

1. Open WebLogic Server for your Oracle BI EE instance.

2. Locate the Domain Structure pane and select Security Realm. The Realms pane displays.

3. In the Realms pane, select <myrealm>. The Settings dialog displays.

4. In the Settings dialog, select the Users and Groups tab.

5. Confirm that the Users tab is displaying and click New.

6. Specify BIImpersonateUser for the user name and enter a password.

7. Click OK.

1.9.1.2 Grant Permissions to BIImpersonateUser

User the following procedure to use Fusion Middleware Control to grant permissions to BIImpersonateUser.

1. Open Fusion Middleware Control for your Oracle BI EE instance.

2. Locate and select bifoundation_domain. The bifoundation_domain pane displays.

3. In the bifoundation_domain pane, click the WebLogic Domain list, highlight Security, and select Application Policies. The Search pane displays.

4. In the Select Application Name to Search field's list, select obi.

5. Click Create. The Add Permission dialog displays.

6. In the Permission Class field, select oracle.security.jps.ResourcePermission. In the Resource Name field, select oracle.bi.server.impersonateUser. Click OK.

7. In the Grantees pane, click Add User. The Add User dialog displays.

8. In the Available Users list, select BIImpersonateUser and click Move to move it to the Selected Users list. Click OK.

9. In the bifoundation_domain pane, click OK.

1.9.1.3 Restart Servers

Use the following procedure if the changes that you made do not display.

1. Stop and restart the following servers:

- Oracle BI EE Server

- Oracle BI EE Presentation Server

- WebLogic Server

2 Improving The Performance of ADF Applications That Contain Oracle BI EE Objects

This chapter contains tuning procedures that you can perform to increase the performance of ADF applications that contain Oracle BI EE objects.

This chapter includes the following sections:

- "Setting an Oracle BI Server Timeout"

- "Adding a Session Timeout"

- "Using Static Resources"

2.1 Setting an Oracle BI Server Timeout

You can improve system performance by passing properties to Oracle WebLogic Server that specify how long a SOAP request waits for a response from the Oracle BI Server before timing out.

2.1.1 How to Set the Oracle BI Server Timeout

Pass the following properties to Oracle WebLogic Server to tune how long a SOAP request waits for a response from Oracle BI Server before timing out. Note that the initial recommended setting is approximately 60 seconds. The value that you specify should always be less than what is configured for stuck thread detection in Weblogic Server.

For more information about configuring stuck thread detection, see "Tuning the Stuck Thread Detection Behavior" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Performance and Tuning for Oracle WebLogic Server.

For more information, see "Examples of Timeout Settings".

- -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=timeout_in_milliseconds

- -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=timeout_in_milliseconds

2.1.2 Examples of Timeout Settings

The following examples show how to set the timeout value to 60 seconds.

For Windows:

commEnv.cmd
set CONFIG_JVM_ARGS=-Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=60000 -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=6000

For Linux:

commEnv.s
setenv CONFIG_JVM_ARGS -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=60000 -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=60

2.2 Adding a Session Timeout

The Oracle BI ADF integration code supports automatically closing sessions when the ADF HTTP session is closed or times out.

2.2.1 How to Add a Session Timeout

Use the following procedure to modify the application's weblogic.xml so that the application automatically closes.

1. In JDeveloper, go to the Application Navigator, open the Projects tab, navigate to the project's WEB-INF subdirectory, and open the weblogic.xml document.

2. Add the following to the document:

<listener>
<listener-class>oracle.bi.presentation.listener.BIADFServletSessionListener
</listener-class>
</listener>

2.3 Using Static Resources

You can configure an Oracle BI Presentation Services connection to use static resources that reside either on the Oracle BI Server or another server. The practise of specifying static resources, such as .javascript and .css, can significantly increases the performance of ADF applications that contain Oracle BI EE objects.

2.3.1 How to Set Static Resources Preferences

Use the following procedure to specify static resources preferences for a saved Oracle BI Presentation Services connection.

For information about setting up static resources in Oracle BI EE, see "Improving Oracle BI Web Client Performance" in Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

For information about creating a new connection and specifying static resources, see "Creating an Oracle BI EE Presentation Services Connection".

1. In JDeveloper, go to either the Application Resources tab within the Application Navigator or to the Resource Palette and select the Oracle BI Presentation Services connection that you want to modify.

2. Right-mouse click the selected data connection and select Properties. The Edit BI Presentation Services Connection wizard displays.

3. In the BI Presentation Services page, specify the static resources settings. Note the following fields:

- Static Resources Mode– Specify from where to retrieve static resources.
Select Auto to direct all requests to Oracle BI Presentation Services rather than to the Oracle BI proxy. Selecting Auto results in a significant increase in performance. Note that Auto mode provides the best performance if Oracle WebLogic Server resides behind Oracle HTTP Server or Apache HTTP Server and you are bypassing Oracle WebLogic Server for serving static files.

Select Manual to direct requests to another location. If you select Manual, you must specify a URL in the Static Resources Location field.

- Static Resources Location– (Optional) If you selected Manual in the Static Resources Mode field, then enter the location of the deployed static resources if they are not located within the Oracle BI installation. The URL format must be http://host:port/analytics. For example, http://bips:9704/analytics. Examples of static resources are .css and .javascript. Or, leave this field blank if Oracle BI resides behind a firewall but the ports to the ADF instance are not behind a firewall.

4. Click Finish to save your changes.

2.3.2 Testing The Static Resources Location

Use the following procedure to test that your static resources location settings (URL) are valid.

1. Create an application that uses the Oracle BI Presentation Services connection in which you specified static resources settings.

2. From the data connection, browse for an analysis and drag and drop it onto a .jspx page.

3. Save the application.

4. Deploy and run the application.

5. Using a tool such as Firebug, validate that requests for .js and .png files are loaded directly from the static resource URL that you specified in the connection. Note that if you receive 404 (or Not Found) error messages that you have specified an invalid URL in your static resources settings.

3 Adding BI Composer to ADF Applications

This chapter explains how to add the BI Composer component to ADF applications.

This chapter includes the following sections:

- "Overview of Using BI Composer with ADF Application"

- "Adding BI Composer to an ADF Application"

3.1 Overview of Using BI Composer with ADF Application

You can add the BI Composer functionality to an ADF application. BI Composer is a simple-to-use wizard that allows users to quickly and easily create, edit, or view the design of Oracle BI EE analyses from ADF applications.

When configured, the BI Composer interface allows ADF application users to browse the Oracle BI EE catalog and subject areas, select or modify the analysis' columns, add views (for example, table and graphs), sort and filter data, and apply conditional formatting to data appearing in tables. For more information about how to use the BI Composer interface, see "Using BI Composer to Work with Analyses" in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Adding BI Composer to a WebCenter Portal application or to WebCenter Portal: Spaces requires a slightly different configuration. For information about configuring a WebCenter Portal application or WebCenter Portal: Spaces to use BI Composer, see "Adding BI Composer to a WebCenter Portal Application or to WebCenter Portal: Spaces".

3.2 Adding BI Composer to an ADF Application

To add BI Composer to an ADF application, you must add the BI Composer library reference to the ADF application, apply the domain extension template, and add task flow parameters and events to the ADF application.

3.2.1 Checking for Installed JDeveloper Extensions

Oracle JDeveloper offers the following Oracle BI EE extensions:

- Business Intelligence ADF Task Flow

- Business Intelligence ADF View Regions

- Business Intelligence Composer

- Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Objects

- Business Intelligence Soap Connection

Use this procedure if you are not sure whether you have the required Oracle JDeveloper 11g extensions and Oracle BI EE extensions.

1. In JDeveloper, click the Help menu and click About. The "About Oracle JDeveloper 11g" dialog displays where you can confirm the release number.

2. Click the Extensions tab to view a list of the installed extensions. To sort the list, click either the Name or Identifier column heading.
Note that all Oracle BI EE extensions contain the "bi-" prefix. If no extensions begin with the "bi-" prefix, then you do not have the required extensions.

3.2.2 Installing the Required JDeveloper Extensions

Use this procedure to install the required extensions.

1. From the JDeveloper Help menu, select Check for Updates.

2. Follow the steps in the wizard to locate, download, and install the Oracle BI EE extensions. If you will create a WebCenter Portal application that integrates with Oracle BI EE, then you need to also install the WebCenter Portal framework.
For a list of the available Oracle BI EE extensions, see"Checking for Installed JDeveloper Extensions".

3.2.3 How to Add the BI Composer Library Reference

Use the following procedure to add the required library reference to the application. Before you can perform this procedure, you must have set up the ADF project to accept Oracle BI EE objects. For more information, see "Preparing the ADF Project to Accept Business Intelligence Objects".

1. Open the application's weblogic.xml.

2. Add the following library reference:

<library-ref>
<library-name>oracle.bi.composer</library-name>
</library-ref>

3. Open the application's weblogicapplication.xml document.

4. Add the following library reference:

<library-ref>
<library-name>oracle.bi.jbips</library-name>
</library-ref>

3.2.4 How to Extend the Domain

Perform this procedure to apply the domain extension template to deploy the BI Composer implementation libraries.

1. Go to the Oracle BI EE installation directory.

2. Use the following substeps to copy the required extension template and libraries from Oracle BI EE's Oracle_Home/and paste them to the target application's Oracle_Home/.

1. Go to the Oracle BI EE installation and copy Oracle_Home//common/templates/applications/oracle.bicomposer.slib_template_11.1.1.jar. Go to the target application installation and paste the file to Oracle_Home//common/templates/applications.

2. Go to the Oracle BI EE installation and copy Oracle_Home//modules/oracle.bi.presentation_11.1.1/bi-composer-slib.war. Go to the target application installation and paste the file to Oracle_Home//modules/oracle.bi.presentation_11.1.1.

3. Go to the Oracle BI EE installation and copy Oracle_Home//modules/oracle.bi.presentation_11.1.1/bi-jbips-slib.ear. Go to the target application install and paste the file to Oracle_Home//modules/oracle.bi.presentation_11.1.1.

3. Stop the WebLogic server.

4. Launch the Configuration Wizard.

5. Select Extend an existing Weblogic domain, and then click Next.

6. Select the domain folder (for example, my_home/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain), and then click Next.

7. Select Extend using extension template, and then use Browse to select the following template:
Oracle_Home//common/templates/applications/oracle.bicomposer.slib_template_11.1.1.jar

When prompted to override the installed template, click Yes.

8. Continue clicking Next and change any settings if needed.

9. Click Extend, and then click Done.

10. Start the WebLogic server.

3.2.5 How to Add the Task Flow Parameters and Events

Use the content in this topic to embed the taskflow in an application page.

This topic contains the following subtopics:

- "BI Composer Wizard Editor Task Flow"

- "BI Composer Wizard Edit Events"

- "BI Composer Wizard Viewer Task Flow Parameters"

3.2.5.1 BI Composer Wizard Editor Task Flow

Use the following information to initialize the taskflow with values for parameters based on other elements in the page. For example, you can use these parameters if you have a list of analyses in the page and the selected analysis needs to be passed as a parameter to the wizard before the user can edit the selected analysis.

The task flow document location is:

WEB-INF/oracle/bi/adf/apps/answers/flow/BIReportWizardTF.xml

The task flow's ID is:

id: BIReportWizardTF

For more information about adding parameters to a task flow, see Chapter 16: Using Parameters in Task Flows in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Fusion Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework.

Table 3-1 lists each task flow parameter, its description, type, default value, and if it is required.

Table 3-1 BI Composer Report Wizard Editor Task Flow Parameters

Name

Description

Type

Required?

Default Value

biReportPath

The catalog path for the analysis that is being edited.

String

No

null

biReportContainerPath

The catalog parent folder path for the analysis that is being edited.

This parameter is used when selecting an analysis that is a shortcut.

String

No

null

biSubjectArea

The subject area upon which a new analysis is being created.

String

No

null

biConnectionId

The ID of the deployed Oracle BI EE Presentation Services connection.

String

No

bi-default

biCatalogOverwriteAllowed

This flag indicates if the user is allowed to overwrite existing analyses in the catalog.

Boolean

No

false

biReportXML

The analysis' XML to use for editing.

String

No

null

biTenantId

Unused

N/A

N/A

N/A

biShowPreviewDefault

This flag indicates if preview is turned on by default.

Boolean

No

false

biShowIncompatibilityMessages

This flag indicates if warning messages should be displayed when opening an analysis that is not compatible with BI Composer.

Boolean

No

true

biReportViewName

Unused

N/A

N/A

N/A

biPromptFilterXML

Unused

N/A

N/A

N/A

biDebugMode

This flag indicates if the icon to generate debug analysis XML is displayed by default.

Boolean

No

false

3.2.5.2 BI Composer Wizard Edit Events

Use the following information to add events that perform specific processing from the BI Composer wizard. For example, you can add a Save event that is initiated by the wizard taskflow after the analysis is edited in the BI Composer wizard. This event refreshes the application's catalog tree.

The task flow document location is:

WEB-INF/oracle/bi/adf/apps/answers/flow/BIReportWizardTF.xml

The task flow's ID is:

BIReportWizardTF

For more information about adding parameters to a task flow, see Chapter 16: Using Parameters in Task Flows in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Fusion Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework

Table 3-2 contains each event, its description, and its payload.

Table 3-2 BI Composer Report Wizard Editor Task Flow Events

Event Name

Description

Payload

biAnsReportWizardCancelEvent

Triggered when the user clicks on the wizard's Cancel button.

None

biAnsReportWizardSaveEvent

Triggered when the user saves an analysis to the catalog.

Path to the analysis saved in the Catalog.

biAnsReportWizardRefreshCatalogEvent

Triggered when any action, such as rename or delete, is performed that requires external consumers to refresh their catalog tree.

Path to the analysis in the catalog which was the source of the action that requires a catalog refresh.

3.2.5.3 BI Composer Wizard Viewer Task Flow Parameters

Use the following information to initialize the taskflow with values for parameters based on other elements in the page. For example, you can uses these parameters if you have a list of analyses in the page and the selected analysis needs to be passed as a parameter to the viewer so that it can render the analysis.

The task flow document location is:

WEB-INF/oracle/bi/adf/apps/answers/flow/BIReportViewerTF.xml

The task flow's ID is:

id: BIReportViewerTF

For more information about adding parameters to a task flow, see Chapter 16: Using Parameters in Task Flows in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Fusion Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework

Table 3-3 lists each task flow parameter, its description, type, default value, and if it is required.

Table 3-3 BI Composer Report Wizard Viewer Task Flow Parameters

Parameter Name

Description

Type

Required?

Default Value

biReportPath

The catalog path for the analysis that is being viewed.

String

No

null

biConnectionId

The ID of the deployed Oracle BI EE Presentation Services connection.

String

No

bi-default

biReportXML

The analysis' XML to use for editing.

String

No

null

biTenantId

Unused

N/A

N/A

N/A

biContentType

The type of content being viewed: "biReportContent" for analyses or "biDashboardContent" for dashboards.

String

No

null

biReportViewName

Unused

N/A

N/A

N/A

4 Using the Oracle BI EE Logical SQL View Object

This chapter explains how you use the Oracle BI EE Logical SQL view object to embed business intelligence data into an ADF application's components.

This chapter includes the following sections:

- "Introduction to the Oracle BI EE Logical SQL View Object"

- "Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object Use Cases"

- "Creating an Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object"

- "Creating a BI JDBC Data Source"

4.1 Introduction to the Oracle BI EE Logical SQL View Object

The Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object allows you to access the Oracle Business Intelligence Server to create ADF applications that bind native ADF components to Oracle BI EE data.

The Oracle Business Intelligence view object exposes the items in the select clause as attributes. After the Business Intelligence Logical View Object's setup is complete, you can use the Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object wherever the other view objects can be used in an ADF application. For example, you could create a view link, which allows you to join the attributes of the Oracle Business Intelligence view object to attributes of another view object that returns data from the operational schemas. You can easily show the data from the Oracle Business Intelligence view object, or joined data created using view links, in any ADF rich/faces component by using a data control that JDeveloper automatically generates.

Including business intelligence objects such as analyses, dashboards,and Scorecard components in ADF pages allows you to access the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, browse the catalog, and choose Oracle BI EE objects to include in ADF pages. For more information about this method of adding business intelligence data to ADF pages, see Chapter 1, "Embedding Business Intelligence Objects in ADF Applications".

4.2 Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object Use Cases

The following use cases are designed to help you understand how you can use the Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object to create robust ADF pages. Each use case consists of a scenario and general instructions.

4.2.1 Displaying Data from Logical SQL in an ADF-Rich User Interface Component

This use case describes how to display data returned by a logical SQL statement in an ADF face or rich user interface component. This use case assumes that you are interested in displaying data for Revenue by Region and District in a read-only rich table format.

Tip:

This use case describes one way of displaying data in a rich table. Normally, it is easier to embed an analysis into an ADF page.

To display data from logical SQL in an ADF-rich user interface component:

1. Create a JDBC connection to an Oracle BI EE Server that contains the data you want to display in the ADF page. For more information, see "Creating a BI JDBC Connection".

2. Create an application module with a standard JDBC connection. For more information, see "Initializing the ADF Project".

3. Create an Oracle Business Intelligence view object, pointing to the JDBC connection and using the following logical SQL. Note that Region, District, and Dollars will be added automatically as the attributes of the View Object.
"Select Markets.Region, Markets.District, Sales Measures.Dollars from Paint"

4. Navigate to the Application Model page of the Create View Object wizard and add an instance of the view object that you created to an application module. In this use case, assume that the application module is named "BIVO_AppModule."
JDeveloper automatically creates a BIVO_AppModuleDataControl. Under this data control your view object is listed as a collection with all its attributes.

5. Drag and drop the view object collection from the data control to the appropriate place on a JSPX page. When the pop-up menu appears, select an appropriate ADF Rich UI component to use for displaying the view object.

6. Select a read-only Rich table for the display.

4.2.2 Displaying Data from Logical SQL and Passing in a Runtime Parameter

This use case is an extension of the "Displaying Data from Logical SQL in an ADF-Rich User Interface Component" use case. In this use case, however, you want to display data for Revenue by Region and District from logical SQL, but only when Revenue is greater than a number inputted by the user. You can accomplish this by passing in a run-time parameter.

To display data from logical SQL and passing in a runtime parameter:

1. Create a JDBC connection to an Oracle BI EE Server that contains the data you want to display in the ADF page. For more information, see "Creating a BI JDBC Connection".

2. Create an application module with a standard JDBC connection. For more information, see "Initializing the ADF Project".

3. Create an Oracle Business Intelligence view object, pointing to the JDBC connection and using the following logical SQL. Note that Region, District, and Dollars will be added automatically as the attributes of the View Object.
"Select Markets.Region, Markets.District, Sales Measures.Dollars from Paint"

4. Add a bind variable mapped to the Dollars attribute.

5. Navigate to the Application Model page of the Create View Object wizard and add an instance of the view object that you created to an application module. In this use case, assume that the application module is named "BIVO_AppModule."
JDeveloper will automatically create a BIVO_AppModuleDataControl for you. Your View Object will be listed as a collection with all its attributes under this data control. The DataControl will also list the "ExecuteWithParam" operation that will take the Dollars parameter.

6. Drag and drop the view object collection from the data control to the appropriate place on a JSPX page. When the pop-up menu appears, select an appropriate ADF Rich UI component to use for displaying the view object.

7. Select a read-only Rich Table for the display.

8. Create an appropriate input component to prompt the user for the threshold Revenue value.

9. Invoke the ExecuteWithParam operation to pass in the threshold revenue value when the user submits the form and refresh the Rich Table that you created earlier.

4.2.3 Displaying Data from the Online Transaction Processing Schema and Logical SQL Together in an ADF-Rich Component

This use case describes how to display an ADF Rich Table that contains the following columns:

- Customer

- Accounts Payable Days Outstanding

- Lifetime Value

- Customer Rank by YTD Revenue

The "Accounts Payable Days Outstanding" value comes from an online transaction processing (OLTP) system and "Lifetime Value" and "Customer Rank" come from the Oracle Business Intelligence Server. "Customer" is common to both systems.

To display data from the online transaction processing schema and logical SQL together in an ADF-rich component:

1. Create a JDBC connection to an Oracle BI EE Server that contains the data you want to display in the ADF page. For more information, see "Creating a BI JDBC Connection".

2. Create an application module with a standard JDBC connection. For more information, see "Initializing the ADF Project".

3. Create a regular view object within the OLTP system and uses the appropriate SQL/Entity Objects to expose the Customer and Accounts Payable Days Outstanding attributes. In this use case, assume that the view object is named OLTP_VO.

4. Using the JDBC connection to the Oracle BI EE Server that you created in Step 1 of this procedure, create an Oracle Business Intelligence view object, using the following logical SQL:
"Select Customer, Lifetime_Value, Rank(YTD Revenue) from CustomerSubjectArea"

Customer, Lifetime Value and Customer Rank by YTD Revenue will be automatically added as the attributes of this view object. In this use case, assume that the view is named BI_VO.

5. Create a view link with the Customer attribute of the OLTP_VO as the source attribute, and the Customer attribute of the BI_VO as the destination attribute.

6. Navigate to the Java step of the OLTP_VO and generate the Java classes for the view object. Also add attributes to the OLTP_VO for "Lifetime_Value" and "RankByRevenue".

7. Edit the Java class for the OLTP_VO (OLTP_VOViewImpl). There will be an accessor method for the each attribute added in the previous step. Edit the implementation of the accessors to return the corresponding values from the Oracle Business Intelligence view object. The business intelligence view object is available to the OLTP_VO View object through the getViewObject method. For example, the code for the Lifetime_Value accessor will look similar to the following:
getViewObject().getCurrentRow().getAttribute("Lifetime_Value")

8. Confirm that OLTP_VO is a part of the ApplicationModule. The OLTP_VO will have a collection of all of the attributes (Customer, Accounts Payable Days Outstanding, Lifetime Value", Customer Rank by YTD Revenue).

9. Drag and drop the view object collection from the data control to the appropriate place on a JSPX page. When the pop-up menu appears, select the ADF Rich UI component to use for displaying the view object.

10. Select a read-only Rich Table for the display.

4.2.4 Creating a Master-Detail Relationship Between an Oracle Business Intelligence View Object and an Online Transaction Processing View Object

In this use case, you create the master-detail relationship in the same way that you create a master-detail relationship between two OLTP view objects. The instructions provided in the following procedure are high-level instructions. You can find complete information about creating a master-detail relationship in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Fusion Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework.

To create a master-detail relationship between an Oracle Business Intelligence view object and an online transaction processing view object:

1. Create an OLTP View Object.

2. Create a Oracle Business Intelligence view object.

3. Create a View Link between the OLTP View object and the BI View Object.

4. Create an appropriate ADF View Object for the source and the destination data controls corresponding to the source and destination view objects.

4.3 Creating an Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object

Before you can create the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Logical SQL View Object, you must perform two preparatory steps: creating a BI JDBC connection and initializing the ADF project with a JDBC connection.

After creating and saving the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Logical SQL View Object, you can modify the view object behavior so that it interacts in a specific way with the ADF application's other view objects.

4.3.1 How to Create an Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object

Use the following subprocedures to prepare for and create an Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Logical SQL View Object that you can use to bind Oracle BI EE data to ADF components.

4.3.1.1 Checking for Installed JDeveloper Extensions

Oracle JDeveloper offers the following Oracle BI EE extensions:

- Business Intelligence ADF Task Flow

- Business Intelligence ADF View Regions

- Business Intelligence Composer

- Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Objects

- Business Intelligence Soap Connection

Use this procedure if you are not sure whether you have the required Oracle JDeveloper 11g extensions and Oracle BI EE extensions.

To check for installed extensions:

1. In JDeveloper, click the Help menu and click About. The About Oracle JDeveloper 11g dialog displays where you can confirm the release number.

2. Click the Extensions tab to view a list of the installed extensions. To sort the list, click either the Name or Identifier column heading.
Note that all Oracle BI EE extensions contain the "bi-" prefix. If no extensions begin with the "bi-" prefix, then you do not have the required extensions.

4.3.1.2 Installing the Required Business Intelligence JDeveloper Extensions

Use JDeveloper's Check for Updates wizard to find and install the required Oracle BI EE extensions.

To install the Oracle BI EE extensions:

1. From the JDeveloper Help menu, select Check for Updates.

2. Follow the steps in the wizard to locate, download, and install the Oracle BI EE extensions.
For a list of the available Oracle BI EE extensions, see "Checking for Installed JDeveloper Extensions".

4.3.1.3 Creating a BI JDBC Connection

You must create a BI JDBC connection to the Oracle BI Server. It is through this connection that the view object will pass the logical SQL statement to the Oracle BI Server, and through which the Oracle BI Server will pass data back to the view object in the ADF application.

You can create the BI JDBC connection to be available for any ADF application, or in the context of a specific ADF application.

For information about how to create a BI JDBC data source, see "Creating a BI JDBC Data Source".

To create a BI JDBC connection:

1. Determine if you want to create the BI JDBC connection for use in all ADF application or for the current ADF application. Use the following substeps to create the connection in an ADF application.

1. Open an ADF project and navigate to the Application Navigator.

2. Go to the Application Resources panel.

3. Right-click the Connections node and select New Connection.

4. Select Database. The Create Database Connection dialog is displayed.

5. Confirm that Application Resources is selected in the Create Connection In field.

2. Use the following substeps to create a connection that is available for all ADF applications.

1. Go to the Resource Palette and click the New icon.

2. Select New Connection.

3. Select Database. The Create Database Connection dialog is displayed.

4. Confirm that IDE Connections is selected in the Create Connection In field.

3. In the Connection Type field, select BI (JDBC) and enter the appropriate connection information. For more information, press F1 or click Help from within the Create Database Connection dialog.

4. Click Test Connection.

- If the test succeeds, a "Success!" message displays in the status text area.

- If the test does not succeed, an error displays. Change the information that you entered in the dialog as needed to correct the error, or check the error content to determine other possible sources of the error.

The new connection name appears under the appropriate node in the Application Navigator or the Resource Palette.

4.3.1.4 Initializing the ADF Project

If the Oracle Business Intelligence view object that you are creating is the first business component added to the ADF application, you must initialize the project with a standard JDBC connection. You cannot initialize the project with a BI JDBC connection. The BI JDBC connection is specified later when you create the BI View object.

Note:

You do not need to initialize a Business Components project. Business Components projects are initialized at creation time.

To initialize the ADF project:

1. Open an ADF project, click File, and then select New. The New Gallery dialog is displayed.

2. Select the All Technologies tab and in the Categories area, select Business Tier and then select Business Intelligence.

3. Confirm that View Object (Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object) is highlighted in the Items area and click OK. The Initialize Business Components Project dialog is displayed.

4. Specify the database connection and SQL flavor your components will use when creating an initial business components project, or when setting project properties. For more information, press F1 or click Help from within the Create Database Connection dialog.

5. Click OK. The Create View Object wizard is displayed.

4.3.1.5 Creating the Business Intelligence View Object

Use the following procedure to create and save the Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL view object using the Create View Object wizard. For more information about a specific dialog within the Create View Object wizard, press F1 or click Help from within the dialog upon which you are working.

After you have created and saved the view object, you can then access the saved view object and add the following items to it:

- alternate keys

- client interface specifications

- client row interface specifications

- view accessors

- user interface hints

To create the view object:

1. Open an ADF project, click File, and then select New. The New Gallery dialog is displayed.

Note:

If you have not yet initialized the ADF project, JDeveloper requires you to do so before you can create a business intelligence view object. For more information, see "Initializing the ADF Project".

2. Select the All Technologies tab and in the Categories area, select Business Tier and then select Business Intelligence, confirm that View Object (Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object) is highlighted in the Items area. Click OK.

3. In the Name screen, enter a name for the view object and specify the package into which you want to place the view object. You can use the Property Set field to select an existing property set for the view object. Click Next. The Connection screen displays.

Note:

After you save the view object, you cannot modify its name.

4. Select the BI JDBC connection that will run the logical SQL and retrieve the business intelligence data. The JDBC connection that was initialized for the project will default to this connection, but you must choose a BI JDBC connection from the list of available connections or click the Add button to create a new BI JDBC connection for the project.

5. Click Next. The Logical SQL screen displays.

6. Type the logical SQL to execute against the Oracle BI EE Server. You can use most of the logical SQL select statements that are supported by the Oracle BI EE Presentation Server. The items in the select list are automatically available as attributes of the business intelligence view object. For example, if the logical SQL is "Select Markets.Region saw_0, Measures.Dollars saw_1 from Paint", the corresponding view object will have two attributes called "region" and "dollars."

Note:

The Insert, Update, and Delete logical SQL statements are not supported by the business intelligence view object. For more information about and a list of the logical SQL statements that you can use with a business intelligence view object, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

7. Click Next. The Bind Variables screen displays.

8. Add or create any necessary variables. Any bind variables that you create are available as parameters on the data controls that include this view object. For more information about bind variables, press F1 or click Help from within the dialog.

9. Click Next. The Java screen displays.

10. Generate any necessary Java files to extend or customize the functionality provided by the business intelligence view object and click Next. The Application Model screen appears.
For more information about generating custom Java classes for the view object, press F1 or click Help from within the dialog.

11. Add an instance of the business intelligence view object to a new or saved Application Module. Note that if you do not add an application module, the data control for the view object will not be automatically generated.

12. Click Next. The Summary screen displays.

13. Review the summary and confirm your selections. After you have confirmed that the selections are correct, click Finish and JDeveloper creates the Oracle Business Intelligence View Object.

4.3.1.6 Modifying the Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object's Behavior

Use the following procedure to modify the view object's behavior and define any additional behaviors, such as client interface specifications, client row interface specifications, view accessors, and user interface hints. The behaviors that you specify will determine how the Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL view object interacts with the application's other ADF view objects.

For more information about a specific dialog within the View Object Editor, press F1 or click Help from within the editor.

To modify the view object's behavior:

1. To locate and open the view object, click File and then click Open. The Open dialog is displayed, where you can browse to and select the view object. The Overview Editor is displayed.

2. Click the Connection node to change the view object's BI JDBC connection information, or add or switch to another BI JDBC connection.

3. Click the Logical SQL node to modify the view object's logical SQL and to add named bind variables to the SQL query.

4. Click the Java node to generate Java files for the view object and its view row set. The generated files allow the client to call methods on the object remotely, generates a service data object that wraps a view row, and allows the view object to be exposed in a web service interface.

5. Click the View Accessors node to define the view accessors to point from a base entity object attribute or view object attribute to a source view row set.

6. Click the List UI Hints node to specify a default list of values (LOV) hint when you want the LOV-enabled attributes of other view objects to inherit the list UI hints from the current view object.

4.4 Creating a BI JDBC Data Source

A BI JDBC data source must exist before you can build a connection to it. It is this data source and connection that allow you to access the Oracle BI Server and pass the logical SQL statement to request data for the view object in the ADF application.

For more information about creating a BI JDBC connection, see "Creating an Oracle Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Object".

4.4.1 How to Create a BI JDBC Data Source in Oracle WebLogic

Use this procedure to access the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console to create a BI JDBC data source. Before you begin, ensure that Oracle WebLogic is started.

To create a data source in WebLogic:

1. Access and log into the WebLogic Server Administration Console for the WebLogic domain in which Oracle BI EE is deployed.

2. In the Domain Structure tree in the left pane, expand Services and choose Data Sources.

3. Click New. You may need to click Lock & Edit first to enable the New button.
The Create a New JDBC Data Source wizard displays.

4. On the JDBC Data Source Properties page, follow these steps:

1. For Name, enter the database name of the BI VO in the JDeveloper application. For example, ApplicationOBIS.

2. For JNDI Name, enter the same value you provided for Name. Note the following JNDI name format: jdbc/name from Name fieldDS. For example, jdbc/ApplicationOBISDS.

3. Set the Database Type to Other.
Click Next.

4. Set the Database Driver to Other.

5. Click Next.

5. On the Transaction Options page, select Supports Global Transactions and select One-Phase Commit. Click Next.

6. On the Connection Properties page, follow these steps:

1. For Database Name, enter any text string. Note that what you specify in this field is not used for Oracle BI EE.

2. For Host Name, enter the name of the Oracle BI server. For example, sr7619.us.mycompany.com.

3. For Port, enter 9703.

4. For Database User Name, enter a valid Oracle BI EE user name that has been assigned the oracle.bi.server.impersonateUser privilege.

5. For Password and Confirm Password enter and then re-enter the password corresponding to the user name that you specified. Click Next.

7. On the Test Database Connection page, follow these steps:

1. For Driver Class Name, enter oracle.bi.jdbc.AnaJdbcDriver.

2. For URL, enter jdbc:oraclebi://Host Name:9703/. For example, jdbc:oraclebi://sr7619.us.mycompany.com:9703/.

3. For Properties, enter user=user from Database User Name field (from above). For example, user=BIImpersonatorUser.

4. For Test Table Name, enter the following: SQL {call NQSGetSQLCatalogs()}

8. Click Test Configuration. If the test fails, go back and check your settings. If the test succeeds, click Next.

9. Select the server or cluster where you want to deploy the data source. Note that you must perform this step before completing the data source configuration.

10. Click Finish.

11. Click Activate Changes.

4.4.2 Configuring the BI JDBC Data Source for Impersonation

Use this procedure to add a connection string property to the BI JDBC data source. Peforming this step enables impersonation. You can skip this step if you do not want the connection to use the currently logged in user.

1. Access and WebLogic Server Administration Console and locate the BI JDBC data source that you want to configure for impersonation. The Settings page displays.

2. Click the Connection Pool tab. Note that you may need to click Lock & Edit before you can configure the data source.

3. In the Properties field, create a new line and add the following: IMPERSONATE=

4. In the Initial Capacity field, enter 1.

5. Click Save.

5 Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services With an Oracle WebCenter Portal Application

This chapter provides conceptual information about integrating Oracle BI Presentation Catalog with a WebCenter Portal application, and adding the Oracle BI Composer functionality to a WebCenter Portal application or to WebCenter Portal: Spaces.

This chapter includes the following topics:

- "Overview of the Oracle BI Presentation Services and WebCenter Portal Application Integration"

- "Creating a WebCenter Portal Application that Integrates with Oracle BI Presentation Services"

- "Can I Add BI Composer to a WebCenter Portal Application or to WebCenter Portal: Spaces?"

- "Adding BI Composer to a WebCenter Portal Application or to WebCenter Portal: Spaces"

5.1 Overview of the Oracle BI Presentation Services and WebCenter Portal Application Integration

You can use JDeveloper to create WebCenter Portal applications that integrate with Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services. At runtime, these applications include the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog in the WebCenter Portal Resource Catalog. Users can then browse for and add business intelligence analyses, dashboard pages, dashboards, or scorecard components (strategy maps, strategy trees, KPI watchlists, cause and effect maps, and custom views) to their WebCenter Portal application pages. Any filters, prompts, and actions links included in the business intelligence objects will work within the WebCenter Portal pages.

At runtime, WebCenter Portal users can expand and browse the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog's folders to view an analysis' views. The following view types display in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog: table, pivot table, chart, funnel chart, gauge, narrative, ticker and title. The following view types do not display in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog: view selector, column selector, logical SQL, and no-results view.

Users can also browse the dashboard folder for the pages associated with the dashboard; however, users cannot browse within the dashboard pages to see their components (for example, any analyses embedded in the dashboard). Users cannot include entire Scorecards (only a Scorecard's components) in their WebCenter Portal application pages.

For more information, see "Creating a WebCenter Portal Application that Integrates with Oracle BI Presentation Services".

5.2 Creating a WebCenter Portal Application that Integrates with Oracle BI Presentation Services

To properly create a WebCenter Portal application that integrates with Oracle BI Presentation Services, you must configure the application's library settings, update the web.xml and default-catalog.xml files, and have properly configured security.

For information describing how to configure a WebCenter Portal application to integrate with Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services, see "Integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Portal.

5.3 Can I Add BI Composer to a WebCenter Portal Application or to WebCenter Portal: Spaces?

BI Composer is a simple-to-use wizard that allows users to quickly and easily edit or view the design of Oracle BI EE analyses from a WebCenter Portal application or to WebCenter Portal: Spaces.

When configured, the BI Composer interface allows WebCenter Portal users to edit the analysis by selecting or modifying the analysis' columns, add views (for example, table and graphs), sort and filter data, and apply conditional formatting to data appearing in tables.

For more information about setting up this integration, see "Adding BI Composer to a WebCenter Portal Application or to WebCenter Portal: Spaces".

For information about using the BI Composer interface, see Chapter 14 "Using BI Composer to Work With Analysis" in Oracle Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

5.4 Adding BI Composer to a WebCenter Portal Application or to WebCenter Portal: Spaces

To add BI Composer to a WebCenter Portal application or to WebCenter Portal: Spaces, you must extend the WebCenter Portal domain to include the BI Composer implementation libraries, add library references to the WebCenter Portal application, and specify the WebCenter Portal BI Composer's viewer and editor container task flow parameters. For WebCenter Portal: Spaces, you must also add task flow permission security and apply the domain extension template to deploy the BI Composer libraries.

5.4.1 Checking for Installed JDeveloper Extensions

Oracle JDeveloper offers the following Oracle BI EE extensions:

- Business Intelligence ADF Task Flow

- Business Intelligence ADF View Regions

- Business Intelligence Composer

- Business Intelligence Logical SQL View Objects

- Business Intelligence Soap Connection

Use this procedure if you are not sure whether you have the required Oracle JDeveloper 11g extensions and Oracle BI EE extensions.

1. In JDeveloper, click the Help menu and click About. The "About Oracle JDeveloper 11g" dialog displays where you can confirm the release number.

2. Click the Extensions tab to view a list of the installed extensions. To sort the list, click either the Name or Identifier column heading.
Note that all Oracle BI EE extensions contain the "bi-" prefix. If no extensions begin with the "bi-" prefix, then you do not have the required extensions.

5.4.2 Installing the Required JDeveloper Extensions

Use this procedure to install the required extensions.

1. From the JDeveloper Help menu, select Check for Updates.

2. Follow the steps in the wizard to locate, download, and install the Oracle BI EE extensions. If you will create a WebCenter Portal application that integrates with Oracle BI EE, then you need to also install the WebCenter Portal framework.
For a list of the available Oracle BI EE extensions, see"Checking for Installed JDeveloper Extensions".

5.4.3 How to extend the WebCenter Portal domain

Perform this procedure to extend the WebCenter Portal domain to include the BI Composer implementation libraries. Perform this procedure for a WebCenter Portal application and for WebCenter Portal: Spaces.

For information about how to perform this procedure, see "How to Extend the Domain".

5.4.4 How to Add the BI Composer Library Reference

Use the following procedure to add the required library reference to the WebCenter Portal application. You do not need to perform this procedure for WebCenter Portal: Spaces.

1. In JDeveloper, go to the Application Navigator, open the Projects tab, navigate to the project's WEB-INF subdirectory, and open the weblogic.xml document.

2. Add the following library reference:

<library-ref>
<library-name>oracle.bi.composer</library-name>
</library-ref>

3. Open the application's weblogic-application.xml document. To do this, go to the Application Navigator, open the Application Resources tab, and navigate to the Descriptors subdirectory where the weblogic-application.xml document is stored.

4. Add the following library reference:

<library-ref>
<library-name>oracle.bi.jbips</library-name>
</library-ref>

5.4.5 How to Add Task Flow Permission Security

If you are configuring BI Composer with WebCenter Portal: Spaces, use the following procedure to create a permission security entry for the BI Composer task flow. You do not need to perform this procedure for a WebCenter Portal application.

1. In Fusion Middleware Control, expand the WebCenter node.

2. Select WebCenter Spaces, right click, select Security, and then select Application Policies. The Applications Policies dialog displays.

3. In the Search pane, click the Select Application Stripe to Search box.

4. Click the list and select web center and click the Search application security grants button. The search results display.

5. From the search results, select the principal to which you want to add permissions. Click Edit. The Edit Application Grant dialog displays.

6. In the Permissions pane, select Add. The Add Permissions dialog displays.

7. In the Customize pane, specify the permission information. Note the following:

- In the Permission Class field, enter oracle.adf.controller.security.TaskFlowPermission

- In the Resource Name field, enter /WEB-INF/oracle/bi/adf/apps/answers/webcenter/flow/BIWebCenterTF.xml#BIWebCenterTF

- In the Permission Actions field, enter customize,personalize,view

8. Click OK.

5.4.6 How to Specify the BI Composer WebCenter Portal Viewer and Editor Container Task Flow Parameters

Use the following information to initialize the taskflow with values for parameters based on other elements in the page.

The container task flow aggregates the editor and viewer task flows and allows the user to switch between the editor and viewer modes at runtime. Note that if the BI Composer libraries are not available in a WebCenter Portal application or WebCenter Portal: Spaces, then only the BI Composer's viewer is exposed and the edit functionality is disabled. However, if the BI Composer libraries are available, then the container task flow is used to expose the BI Composer's viewer and editor functionalities.

The task flow document location is:

WEB-INF/oracle/bi/adf/apps/answers/webcenter/flow/BIWebCenterTF.xml

The task flow's ID is:

BIWebCenterTF

For more information about adding parameters to a task flow, see Chapter 16: Using Parameters in Task Flows in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Fusion Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework

Table 5-1 lists each task flow parameter, its description, type, default value, and if it is required.

Table 5-1 BI Composer WebCenter Portal Viewer and Editor Task Flow Parameters

Name

Description

Type

Required?

Default Value

biCatalogPath

The catalog path for the analysis being viewed or edited.

String

No

null

connectionId

The ID of the deployed Oracle BI EE Presentation Services connection.

String

No

null

obipsType

The type of content being viewed or edited. Use "biReportContent" for analysis, "biDashboardContent" for dashboard, and "biScorecardContent" for scorecard.

String

No

null

subItem

The sub item name of the Oracle BI content (for example, analysis view or dashboard page). This parameter applies to the viewer, only.

String

No

null

promptfilterxml

The prompt or filter's XML. This parameter applies to the viewer, only.

String

No

null

width

The Oracle BI object's width. This parameter applies to the viewer, only.

String

No

null

height

The Oracle BI object's content height. This parameter applies to the viewer, only.

String

No

null

Glossary

This glossary defines terms for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. See also the Oracle Fusion Middleware Master Glossary for additional terms and definitions.

action

Provides functionality to navigate to related content or to invoke operations, functions or processes in external systems. You can include actions in analyses, dashboard pages, agents, scorecard objectives, scorecard initiatives, and KPIs.

See also action link.

Action Framework

The Action Framework is a component of the Oracle BI EE architecture and includes a J2EE application called the Action Execution Service (AES) and actions-specific JavaScript functionality deployed as part of Oracle BI EE. The action framework also includes client-side functionality for creating actions and invoking certain action types directly from the browser.

action link

A link to an action that you have embedded in an analysis, dashboard page, scorecard objective, scorecard initiative, or KPI that, when clicked, runs an associated action.

See also action.

ADF Business Intelligence Component

Provides the developer the ability to include Oracle BI Presentation Catalog objects in ADF Applications. This component uses a SOAP connection to access the catalog.

Administration Server

Part of the WebLogic server domain and runs the processes that manage Oracle Business Intelligence components. The Administration Server includes the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, Oracle Fusion Middleware Control, and JMX MBeans. For a Simple Install type, the Administration Server also includes Java components for Oracle Business Intelligence such as Oracle BI Publisher and Oracle Real-Time Decisions.

See also Fusion Middleware Control, Java components and Managed Server.

Administration Tool

See Oracle BI Administration Tool.

agent

Enables you to automate your business processes. You can use agents to provide event-driven alerting, scheduled content publishing, and conditional event-driven action execution.

Agents can dynamically detect information-based problems and opportunities, determine the appropriate individuals to notify, and deliver information to them through a wide range of devices (e-mail, phones, and so on).

aggregate persistence

A feature that automates the creation and loading of aggregate tables and their corresponding Oracle Business Intelligence metadata mappings to enable aggregate navigation.

aggregate table

A table that stores precomputed results from measures that have been aggregated over a set of dimensional attributes. Each aggregate table column contains data at a given set of levels. For example, a monthly sales table might contain a precomputed sum of the revenue for each product in each store during each month. Using aggregate tables optimizes performance.

aggregation rule

In an Oracle BI repository, a rule applied to a logical column or physical cube column that specifies a particular aggregation function to be applied to the column data, such as SUM.

In Presentation Services, users can see the rules that have been applied in the repository. Users can also change the default aggregation rules for measure columns.

alias table

A physical table that references a different physical table as its source. You can use alias tables to set up multiple tables, each with different keys, names, or joins, when a single physical table must serve in different roles. Because alias table names are included in physical SQL queries, you can also use alias tables to provide meaningful table names, making the SQL statements easier to read.

analysis

A query that a user creates on the Criteria tab in Presentation Services. An analysis can optionally contain one or more filters or selection steps to restrict the results.

See also filter and selection step.

analysis criteria

Consists of the columns, filters, and selection steps that you specify for an analysis.

See also analysis.

analysis prompt

A prompt that is added to an analysis. When the user selects a prompt value, that value then determines the content that displays in the analysis that contains the prompt, only.

See dashboard prompt and prompt.

attribute

The details of a dimension in an Oracle BI repository. Attributes usually appear as columns of a dimension table.

attribute column

In Presentation Services, a column that holds a flat list of values that are also known as members. No hierarchical relationship exists between these members, as is the case for members of a hierarchical column. Examples include ProductID or City.

See hierarchical column.

BI Composer

BI Composer is a simple-to-use wizard that enables you to quickly and easily create, edit, or view analyses without the complexities of the Analysis editor.

BI domain

Contains configurable system components (the coreapplication) and Java components (the WebLogic server domain), and includes the Web-based management tools and applications that use resources.

A BI domain can be a set of middleware homes spread across one or more physical servers.

See also BI instance.

BI instance

Refers to the system components (coreapplication) of a BI domain

See also BI domain.

BI object

A piece of business intelligence content that is created with Presentation Services and saved to the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. Examples of BI objects include analyses, dashboards, dashboard pages, scorecards, and KPIs.

BI Search

A search tool that resides outside of Presentation Services. BI Search is available from the Home Page after the administrator adds a link to the BI Search URL. BI Search provides a mechanism for searching for objects in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog that is similar to a full-text search engine.

bookmark link

Captures the path to a dashboard page and all aspects of the page state.

See prompted link.

bridge table

A table that enables you to resolve many-to-many relationships between two other tables.

briefing book

See Oracle BI Briefing Books.

business model

An object in the Oracle BI repository that contains the business model definitions and the mappings from logical to physical tables. Business models are always dimensional, unlike objects in the Physical layer, which reflect the organization of the data sources. Each business model contains logical tables, columns, and joins.

Business Model and Mapping layer

A layer of the Oracle BI repository that defines the business, or logical, model of the data and specifies the mapping between the business model and the Physical layer schemas. This layer can contain one or more business models.

The Business Model and Mapping layer determines the analytic behavior that is seen by users, and defines the superset of objects available to users. It also hides the complexity of the source data models.

business owner

The person responsible for managing and improving the business value and performance of a KPI or scorecard object, such as an objective, cause & effect map, and so on.

catalog

See Oracle BI Presentation Catalog.

cause & effect map

A component of a scorecard that lets you illustrate the cause and effect relationships of an objective or KPI.

See also Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.

chronological key

A column in a time dimension that identifies the chronological order of the members within a dimension level. The key must be unique at its level.

Cluster Controller

A process that serves as the first point of contact for new requests from Presentation Services and other clients. The Cluster Controller determines which Oracle BI Server in the cluster to direct the request to based on Oracle BI Server availability and load. It monitors the operation of servers in the cluster, including the Oracle BI Scheduler instances. The Cluster Controller is deployed in active-passive configuration.

column

In an Oracle BI repository, columns can be physical columns, logical columns, or presentation columns.

In Presentation Services, indicates the pieces of data that an analysis returns. Together with filters and selection steps, columns determine what analyses contain. Columns also have names that indicate the types of information that they contain, such as Account and Contact.

See also analysis, attribute column, hierarchical column, and measure column.

column filter

See filter.

column prompt

A type of filter that enables you to build specific value prompts on a data column to either exist alone on the dashboard or analysis or to expand or refine existing dashboard and analysis filters.

See also prompt.

complex join

A join in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository that uses an expression other than equals.

condition

Objects that return a single Boolean value based on the evaluation of an analysis or of a key performance indicator (KPI). You use conditions to determine whether agents deliver their content and execute their actions, whether actions links are displayed in dashboard pages, or whether sections and their content are displayed in dashboard pages.

See also action, action link, agent and key performance indicator (KPI).

connection pool

An object in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository that contains the connection information for a data source.

See also Physical layer.

content designer

The user who creates business intelligence objects such as analyses, dashboards, and scorecards.

contextual event action

A predelivered action that uses the Action Framework to pass content from the business intelligence object to another region on an ADF page.

See also action, Action Framework, and action link.

criteria

See analysis criteria.

cube

An OLAP (online analytical processing) data structure that lets data be analyzed more quickly and with greater flexibility than structures in relational databases. Cubes are made up of measures and organized by dimensions. Cubes in multidimensional data sources roughly correspond to star schemas in relational database models.

currency prompt

A prompt that enables the user to change the currency type that displays in the currency columns on an analysis or dashboard.

See also prompt.

custom view

A component of a scorecard that lets you show a customized view of your business and strategy data.

See also Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.

dashboard

An object that provides personalized views of corporate and external information. A dashboard consists of one or more pages. Pages can display anything that you can access or open with a Web browser, such as results of analyses, images, alerts from agents, and so on.

dashboard prompt

A prompt that is added to the dashboard. When the user selects a prompt value, that value then determines the content that displays in all analyses that are included on the dashboard.

See analysis prompt and prompt.

Dashboard URL

Used for incorporating or referencing the content of a specific dashboard in external portals or applications. It has several forms and optional arguments that you can use to control its behavior.

data source name (DSN)

A data structure that contains the information about a specific database, typically used by an ODBC driver to connect to the database. The DSN contains information such as the name, directory, and driver of the database.

Connection pool objects in the Physical layer of the Oracle BI repository contain DSN information for individual data sources.

database hint

Instructions placed within a SQL statement that tell the database query optimizer the most efficient way to execute the statement. Hints override the optimizer's execution plan, so you can use hints to improve performance by forcing the optimizer to use a more efficient plan. Hints are supported only for Oracle Database data sources.

dimension

A hierarchical organization of logical columns (attributes). One or more logical dimension tables might be associated with at most one dimension.

A dimension might contain one or more (unnamed) hierarchies. There are two types of logical dimensions: dimensions with level-based hierarchies (structure hierarchies), and dimensions with parent-child hierarchies (value hierarchies).

A particular type of level-based dimension, called a time dimension, provides special functionality for modeling time series data.

See also hierarchy.

dimension table

A logical table that contains columns used by a particular dimension. A dimension table cannot be a fact table.

See also fact table.

driving table

A mechanism used to optimize the manner in which the Oracle BI Server processes multi-database joins when one table is very small (the driving table) and the other table is very large.

DSN

See data source name (DSN).

event polling table

Event polling tables (also called event tables) provide information to the Oracle BI Server about which physical tables have been updated. They are used to keep the query cache up-to-date. The Oracle BI Server cache system polls the event table, extracts the physical table information from the rows, and purges stale cache entries that reference those physical tables.

Essbase

A multidimensional database management system available from Oracle that provides a multidimensional database platform upon which to build business intelligence applications. Also referred to as Oracle's Hyperion Essbase.

fact table

In an Oracle BI repository, a logical table in the Business Model and Mapping layer that contains measures and has complex join relationships with dimension tables.

See also dimension table.

filter

Criteria that are applied to attribute and measure columns to limit the results that are displayed when an analysis is run. For measure columns, filters are applied before the query is aggregated and affect the query and thus the resulting values.

See also prompt and selection step.

foreign key

A column or a set of columns in one table that references the primary key columns in another table.

fragmentation content

The portion, or fragment, of the set of data specified in a logical table source when the logical table source does not contain the entire set of data at a given level. Fragmentation content is defined by the logical columns that are entered in the Fragmentation content box in the Content tab of the Logical Table Source dialog box.

Fusion Middleware Control

Provides Web-based management tools that enable you to monitor and configure Fusion Middleware components.

global header

An object in the user interface for Oracle BI Presentation Services that contains links and options that enable the user to quickly begin a task or locate a specific object within the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. The global header always displays in the Presentation Services user interface, thus enabling users to quickly access links and search the catalog without having to navigate to the Home Page or Catalog page.

Go URL

Used to incorporate specific business intelligence results into external portals or applications. The Go URL is used when you add a result to your favorites or add a link to a request to a dashboard or external Web site. It has several forms and optional arguments that you can use to control its behavior.

hierarchical column

In Presentation Services, a column that holds data values that are organized using both named levels and parent-child relationships. This column is displayed using a tree-like structure. Individual members are shown in an outline manner, with lower-level members rolling into higher-level members. For example, a specific day belongs to a particular month, which in turn is within a particular year. Examples include Time or Geography.

See also attribute column.

hierarchy

In an Oracle BI repository, a system of levels in a logical dimension that are related to each other by one-to-many relationships. All hierarchies must have a common leaf level and a common root (all) level.

Hierarchies are not modeled as separate objects in the metadata. Instead, they are an implicit part of dimension objects.

See also dimension, logical level, and presentation hierarchy.

hierarchy level

In Presentation Services, an object within a hierarchical column that either rolls up or is rolled up from other levels. Corresponds to a presentation level in an Oracle BI repository.

See also presentation level.

home page

Provides an intuitive, task-based entry way into the functionality of Presentation Services. The Home page is divided into sections that enable you to quickly begin specific tasks, locate an object, or access technical documentation.

image prompt

A prompt that provides an image with different areas mapped to specific values. The user clicks an image area to select the prompt value that populates the analysis or dashboard.

See also prompt.

initialization block

Used to initialize dynamic repository variables, system session variables, and nonsystem session variables. An initialization block contains the SQL statements that are executed to initialize or refresh the variables that are associated with that block.

initiative

Used in a scorecard, an initiative is a time-specific task or project that is necessary to achieve objectives. As such, you can use initiatives that support objectives as milestones as they reflect progress toward strategy targets.

See also objective and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.

Java components

Fusion Middleware Control components that are deployed as one or more Java EE applications (and a set of resources) and are managed by Node Manager.

See also Node Manager.

key performance indicator (KPI)

A measurement that defines and tracks specific business goals and strategic objectives. KPIs often times roll up into larger organizational strategies that require monitoring, improvement, and evaluation. KPIs have measurable values that usually vary with time, have targets to determine a score and performance status, include dimensions to allow for more precise analysis, and can be compared over time for trending purposes and to identify performance patterns.

See also Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.

KPI watchlist

A method of distributing KPIs to end users. A watchlist is a collection of KPIs that are built by adding the KPIs that are stored in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. After a KPI watchlist is built and saved, it is stored as a catalog object and can be added to dashboards and scorecards.

See also key performance indicator (KPI).

level

See hierarchy level.

logical display folder

Folders used to organize objects in the Business Model and Mapping layer of an Oracle BI repository. They have no metadata meaning.

logical join

Joins that express relationships between logical tables. Logical joins are conceptual, rather than physical, joins. In other words, they do not join to particular keys or columns. A single logical join can correspond to many possible physical joins.

logical layer

See Business Model and Mapping layer.

logical level

In an Oracle BI repository, a component of a level-based hierarchy that either rolls up or is rolled up from other levels.

Parent-child hierarchies have implicit, inter-member levels between ancestors and descendants that are not exposed as logical level objects in the metadata. Although parent-child hierarchies also contain logical level objects, these levels are system generated and exist to enable aggregation across all members only.

See also dimension and hierarchy.

Logical SQL

The SQL statements that are understood by the Oracle BI Server. The Oracle BI Server Logical SQL includes standard SQL, plus special functions (SQL extensions) like AGO, TODATE, EVALUATE, and others.

Clients like Presentation Services send Logical SQL to the Oracle BI Server when a user makes a request. In addition, Logical SQL is used in the Business Model and Mapping layer to enable heterogeneous database access and portability. The Oracle BI Server transforms Logical SQL into physical SQL that can be understood by source databases.

logical table

A table object in the Business Model and Mapping layer of an Oracle BI repository. A single logical table can map to one or more physical tables. Logical tables can be either fact tables or dimension tables.

See also dimension table and fact table.

logical table source

Objects in the Business Model and Mapping layer of an Oracle BI repository that define the mappings from a single logical table to one or more physical tables. The physical to logical mapping can also be used to specify transformations that occur between the Physical layer and the Business Model and Mapping layer, and to enable aggregate navigation and fragmentation.

Managed Server

An individual J2EE application container (JMX MBean container). It provides local management functions on individual hosts for Java components and system components contained within the local middleware home, and refers to the Administration Server for all of its configuration and deployment information.

See also Administration Server and Fusion Middleware Control.

MDS

Oracle Metadata Services. A core technology of the Application Development Framework. MDS provides a unified architecture for defining and using metadata in an extensible and customizable manner.

See also MDS XML.

MDS XML

An XML format that is compatible with Oracle Metadata Services. MDS XML is a supported format for the Oracle BI repository. It enables integration with third-party source control management systems for offline repository development.

MDS XML format is different from the XML format generated by the Oracle BI Server XML API.

See also MDS, Oracle BI repository, and Oracle BI Server XML API.

measure column

A column that can change for each record and can be added up or aggregated. Typical measures are sales dollars and quantity ordered. Measures are calculated from data sources at query time.

Measure columns are displayed in the Oracle BI repository, usually in fact tables, or in Presentation Services.

metadata

Data about data. Metadata objects include the descriptions of schemas (such as tables, columns, data types, primary keys, foreign keys, and so on) and logical constructs (like fact tables, dimensions, and logical table source mappings).

The Oracle BI repository is made up of the metadata used by the Oracle BI Server to process queries.

metadata dictionary

A static set of XML documents that describe metadata objects, such as a column, including its properties and relationships with other metadata objects. A metadata dictionary can help users obtain more information about metrics or attributes for repository objects.

mission statement

A statement in a scorecard that specifies the key business goals and priorities that are required to achieve your vision.

See also Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management and vision statement.

multi-database join

A join between two tables in an Oracle BI repository, where each table resides in a different database.

Node Manager

A daemon process that provides remote server start, stop, and restart capabilities when Java processes become unresponsive or terminate unexpectedly.

See also Java components.

OCI

See Oracle Call Interface (OCI).

ODBC

See Open Database Connectivity (ODBC).

object properties

Information about an object and attributes that the owner can assign to an object. Examples of properties include name, description, date stamps, read-only access, and do not index flag.

See also permissions.

objective

A required or desired outcome in a scorecard that forms your corporate strategy.

See also initiative and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.

offline mode

In the Oracle BI Administration Tool, a mode where a repository builder can edit a repository that is not loaded into the Oracle BI Server.

online mode

In the Oracle BI Administration Tool, a mode where a repository builder can edit a repository while it is available for query operations. Online mode also allows user session monitoring for users connected to the subject areas in the repository.

opaque view

A Physical layer table that consists of a SELECT statement. In the Oracle BI repository, opaque views appear as view tables in the physical databases, but the view does not actually exist.

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)

A standard interface used to access data in both relational and nonrelational databases. Database applications can use ODBC to access data stored in different types of database management systems, even if each database uses a different data storage format and programming interface.

OPMN

See Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN).

Oracle BI Administration Tool

A Windows application that is used to create and edit Oracle BI repositories. The Administration Tool provides a graphical representation of the three parts of a repository: the Physical layer, the Business Model and Mapping layer, and the Presentation layer.

Oracle BI Briefing Books

A collection of static or updatable snapshots of dashboard pages, individual analyses, and BI Publisher reports. You can download briefing books in PDF or MHTML format for printing and viewing. You also can update, schedule, and deliver briefing books using agents.

Oracle BI JavaHost

A service that gives Presentation Services the ability to use functionality that is provided in Java libraries to support components such as graphs. The services are provided based on a request-response model.

Oracle BI Logical SQL View Object

Provides the developer the ability to create a Logical SQL statement to access the Oracle BI Server and fetch business intelligence data and bind it to native ADF components for inclusion on an ADF page. This view object uses a BI JDBC connection to the Oracle BI Server.

Oracle BI Presentation Catalog

Stores business intelligence objects, such as analyses and dashboards, and provides an interface where users create, access, and manage objects, and perform specific object-based tasks (for example, export, print, and edit). The catalog is organized into folders that are either shared or personal.

Oracle BI Presentation Services

Provides the framework and interface for the presentation of business intelligence data to Web clients. It maintains a Presentation Catalog service on the file system for the customization of this presentation framework. It is a standalone process and communicates with the Oracle BI Server using ODBC over TCP/IP. It consists of components that are known as Answers, Delivers, and Interactive Dashboards.

See also ODBC; Oracle BI Server; Oracle BI Presentation Catalog; Oracle BI Presentation Services server.

Oracle BI Presentation Services server

The Oracle BI Web server that exchanges information and data with the Oracle BI Server.

Oracle BI Publisher

A J2EE application that provides enterprise-wide publishing services in Oracle Business Intelligence. It generates highly formatted, pixel-perfect reports.

See also report.

Oracle BI Publisher report

See report.

Oracle BI repository

The set of Oracle Business Intelligence metadata that defines logical schemas, physical schemas, physical-to-logical mappings, aggregate table navigation, and other constructs. Oracle BI repositories can be in binary (RPD) format, in which repository metadata is contained in a single file with an extension of .rpd, or in a set of MDS XML documents. MDS XML format repositories are used for offline development only and cannot be loaded into the Oracle BI Server. Oracle BI repositories in both formats can be edited using the Oracle BI Administration Tool.

See also metadata and Oracle BI Administration Tool.

Oracle BI Scheduler

An extensible scheduling application for scheduling results to be delivered to users at specified times. It is the engine behind the Oracle BI Delivers feature.

See also results.

Oracle BI Server

A standalone process that maintains the logical data model that it provides to Presentation Services and other clients through ODBC. Metadata is maintained for the data model in a local proprietary file called the repository file. The Oracle BI Server processes user requests and queries underlying data sources.

Oracle BI Server XML API

Provides utilities to create a generic, XML-based representation of the Oracle BI repository metadata. You can use this XML file version of the repository to programmatically modify the metadata. The Oracle BI Server XML API objects correspond to metadata repository objects in an RPD file. These objects differ from XML objects in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog.

The XML generated by the Oracle BI Server XML API is different from the MDS XML format used for Oracle BI repositories integrated with third-party source control management systems.

See also MDS XML.

Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile

Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile allows you to view Oracle BI EE content on supported mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad.

Using Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile, you can view and analyze BI content such as analyses and dashboards, BI Publisher content, scorecard content, and content delivered by agents.

Oracle Business Intelligence Web Services

See Oracle Business Intelligence Session-Based Web Services and Oracle Business Intelligence Web Services for SOA.

Oracle Business Intelligence Session-Based Web Services

An API that implements SOAP. These Web services are designed for programmatic use, where a developer uses one Web service to invoke many different business intelligence objects. These Web services provide functionality on a wide range of Presentation Services operations. These Web services enable the developer to extract results from Oracle BI Presentation Services and deliver them to external applications, perform Presentation Services management functions, and execute Oracle Business Intelligence alerts (known as Intelligent Agents).

See also Oracle Business Intelligence Web Services for SOA.

Oracle Business Intelligence Web Services for SOA

Contains three Web services, ExecuteAgent, ExecuteAnalysis, and ExecuteCondition, which are hosted by the bimiddleware J2EE application. These web services are designed to enable developers to use third-party Web services clients (for example, Oracle SOA Suite) to browse for and include business intelligence objects in service oriented architecture components.

See also Oracle Business Intelligence Session-Based Web Services.

Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

A connection interface that the Oracle BI Server can use to connect to Oracle Database data sources. You should always use OCI when importing metadata from or connecting to an Oracle Database.

Oracle OLAP

Oracle Database has an OLAP Option that provides an embedded, full-featured online analytical processing server.

Oracle Business Intelligence supports Oracle OLAP as a data source. When you import metadata from an Oracle OLAP source, the Oracle OLAP objects appear in the Physical layer of the Administration Tool. Oracle OLAP objects include Analytic Workspaces, which are containers for storing related cubes.

Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN)

A process management tool that manages all system components (server processes), and supports both local and distributed process management, automatic process recycling and the communication of process state (up, down, starting, stopping). OPMN detects process unavailability and automatically restarts processes).

See also system components.

Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management

A performance management tool that lets you describe and communicate your business strategy. You can drive and assess your corporate strategy and performance from the top of your organization down, or from the bottom up.

Oracle Technology Network (OTN)

A repository of technical information about Oracle's products where you can search for articles, participate in discussions, ask the user community technical questions, and search for and download Oracle products and documentation.

parent-child hierarchy

A hierarchy of members that all have the same type. All the dimension members of a parent-child hierarchy occur in a single data source. In a parent-child hierarchy, the inter-member relationships are parent-child relationships between dimension members.

See also dimension.

parent-child relationship table

A table with values that explicitly define the inter-member relationships in a parent-child hierarchy. Also called a closure table.

pass-through calculation

A calculation that is not computed by the Oracle BI Server but instead is passed to another data source. Enables advanced users to leverage data source features and functions without the need to modify the Oracle BI repository.

permissions

Specify which users can access an object, and limit how users can interact with an object. Examples of permissions include write, delete, and change permissions.

See object properties.

perspective

A category in your organization with which to associate initiatives, objectives, and KPIs in a scorecard. A perspective can represent a key stakeholder (such as a customer, employee, or shareholder/financial) or a key competency area (such as time, cost, or quality).

See also initiative, key performance indicator (KPI), objective, and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.

physical catalog

An object in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository that groups different schemas. A catalog contains all the schemas (metadata) for a database object.

physical display folder

Folders that organize objects in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository. They have no metadata meaning.

physical join

Joins between tables in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository.

Physical layer

A layer of the Oracle BI repository that contains objects that represent physical data constructs from back-end data sources. The Physical layer defines the objects and relationships available for writing physical queries. This layer encapsulates source dependencies to enable portability and federation.

physical schema

An object in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository that represents a schema from a back-end database.

physical table

An object in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository, usually corresponding to a table that exists in a physical database.

See also Physical layer.

presentation hierarchy

An object in the Presentation layer of an Oracle BI repository that provides an explicit way to expose the multidimensional model in Presentation Services and other clients. Presentation hierarchies expose analytic functionality such as member selection, custom member groups, and asymmetric queries. Users can create hierarchy-based queries using presentation hierarchies.

In Presentation Services, presentation hierarchies are displayed as hierarchical columns.

See also hierarchical column and presentation level.

Presentation layer

Provides a way to present customized, secure, role-based views of a business model to users. It adds a level of abstraction over the Business Model and Mapping layer in the Oracle BI repository. The Presentation layer provides the view of the data seen by users who build analyses in Presentation Services and other client tools and applications.

See also Business Model and Mapping layer.

presentation level

In the Oracle BI repository, a component of a presentation hierarchy that either rolls up or is rolled up from other levels. Presentation levels are displayed as levels within hierarchical columns in Presentation Services.

See also hierarchy level and presentation hierarchy.

Presentation Services

See Oracle BI Presentation Services.

Presentation Services server

See Oracle BI Presentation Services server.

presentation table

An object in the Presentation layer of an Oracle BI repository that is used to organize columns into categories that make sense to the user community. A presentation table can contain columns from one or more logical tables. The names and object properties of the presentation tables are independent of the logical table properties.

primary key

A column (or set of columns) where each value is unique and identifies a single row of a table.

process instance

A unique process on an individual workstation that is associated with a BI instance.

See also BI instance.

prompt

A type of filter that enables the content designer to build and specify data values or the end user to choose specific data values to provide a result sets for an individual analysis or multiple analyses included on a dashboard or dashboard page. A prompt expands or refines existing dashboard and analysis filters.

The types of prompts are column prompts, currency prompts, image prompts, and variable prompts.

See also column prompt, currency prompt, filter, image prompt, and variable prompt.

prompted link

Captures the path to a dashboard page and a simplified presentation of the dashboard prompt.

See bookmark link.

query

Contains the underlying SQL statements that are issued to the Oracle BI Server. You do not have to know a query language to use Oracle Business Intelligence.

query cache

A facility to store query results for use by other queries.

ragged hierarchy

See unbalanced hierarchy.

report

The response returned to the user from the execution of a query created using Oracle BI Publisher. Reports can be formatted, presented on a dashboard page, saved in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, and shared with other users.

See also analysis.

repository

See Oracle BI repository.

repository variable

See variable.

results

The output returned from the Oracle BI Server for an analysis.

See also analysis.

scorecard

See Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.

selection step

A choice of values that is applied after the query is aggregated that affects only the members displayed, not the resulting aggregate values. Along with filters, selection steps restrict the results for an analysis.

See also analysis and filter.

session variable

See variable.

skip-level hierarchy

A hierarchy where some members do not have a value for a particular ancestor level. For example, in the United States, the city of Washington in the District of Columbia does not belong to a state. The expectation is that users can still navigate from the country level (United States) to Washington and below without the need for a state.

See also hierarchy.

snowflake schema

A dimensional schema where one or more of the dimensions are partially or completely normalized.

SQL

See structured query language (SQL).

star schema

A relational schema that allows dimensional analysis of historical information. Star schemas have one-to-many relationships between the logical dimension tables and the logical fact table. Each star consists of a single fact table joined to a set of denormalized dimension tables.

strategy map

A component of a scorecard that shows how the objectives that have been defined for a scorecard and the KPIs that measure their progress are aligned by perspectives. It also shows cause and effect relationships.

See also Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.

strategy tree

A component of a scorecard that shows an objective and its supporting child objectives and KPIs hierarchically in a tree diagram.

See also Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.

structured query language (SQL)

A standard programming language for querying and modifying data. Oracle Business Intelligence supports standard SQL-92 with several value-added proprietary extensions.

See also Logical SQL.

subject area

In an Oracle BI repository, an object in the Presentation layer that organizes and presents data about a business model. It is the highest-level object in the Presentation layer and represents the view of the data that users see in Presentation Services. Oracle BI repository subject areas contain presentation tables, presentation columns, and presentation hierarchies.

In Presentation Services, subject areas contain folders, measure columns, attribute columns, hierarchical columns, and levels.

system components

Server processes (not Java applications) that are managed by the Oracle Process Manager and Notification server (OPMN).

See also Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN).

transformation

Work that is performed on data when moving from a database to another location (sometimes another database). Some transformations are typically performed on data when it is moved from a transaction system to a data warehouse system.

unbalanced hierarchy

A hierarchy where the leaves do not have the same depth. For example, an organization might choose to have data for the current month at the day level, data for the previous at the month level, and data for the previous five years at the quarter level.

See also hierarchy.

value hierarchy

See parent-child hierarchy.

variable

Objects in an Oracle BI repository that are used to streamline administrative tasks and dynamically modify metadata content to adjust to a changing data environment.

Variables are of the following types:

- Repository variables have a single value at any point in time. There are two types of repository variables: static and dynamic.

- Session variables are created and assigned a value when each user logs on. There are two types of session variables: system and nonsystem.

variable prompt

Enables the user to select a value specified in the variable prompt to display on the dashboard. A variable prompt is not dependent upon column data, but enables you to manipulate, for example add or multiply, the column data on an analysis.

See also prompt.

virtual physical table

A physical table that is made from a stored procedure or a SELECT statement. Creating virtual tables can provide the Oracle BI Server and the underlying databases with the proper metadata to perform some advanced query requests.

vision statement

A short statement in a scorecard that describes what your organization wants to become sometime in the future. For example, it might be to become the most successful business in the South America Polypropylene Market.

See also mission statement and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.

WebLogic server domain

Contains Java components that are configured to participate in the servicing of SOAP, HTTP, and other forms of requests.

WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)

A command-line scripting interface that enables you to configure, manage, and persist changes to WebLogic Server instances and domains and to monitor and manage server run-time events.

XML API

See Oracle BI Server XML API.

Index

A  B  C  D  E  F  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W

A

Action Framework

Oracle BI EE contextual event, 1.7

adding

BI Composer to ADF application, 3.2

Oracle BI JDBC data source, 4.4

Oracle BI Logical SQL View Object, 4.3, 4.3.1.5

Oracle BI objects to ADF pages, 1.6, 1.6.1

Presentation Services connection, 1.5

session timeout, 2.2

ADF applications

adding SQL view object, 4.3

embedding business intelligence objects, 1.1

improving performance, 2

personalization for Oracle BI objects, 1.4.1.3

preparing to accept business intelligence objects, 1.4

use cases, 1.3, 4.2

ADF contextual event

biContent element, 1.6

example, 1.6

Oracle BI EE contextual event action, 1.7

ADF face

Logical SQL View Object, 4.2.1, 4.2.2

ADF HTTP session timeout, 2.2

ADF rich user interface component

Logical SQL View Object, 4.2.1

ADF security

impersonation, 1.5.1.3

ADF technology scopes

adding to project, 1.4.1.5

adfbi content element, 1.6

analyses

overview of embedding in ADF page, 1.2

personalizations in ADF applications, 1.4.1.3

application performance

improving, 2

B

BI Composer

adding to WebCenter Portal Application or WebCenter Portal: Spaces, 5.3, 5.4

library reference, 3.2.3

overview, 3.1

task flow parameters and events, 3.2.5

BI JDBC connection

adding connection, 4.3.1.3

creating BI JDBC data source, 4.4.1

initializing ADF project, 4.3.1.4

BI JDBC data source

configuring for impersonation, 4.4.2

BI Presentation Services Host

specifying for Presentation Services connection, 1.5.1.3

BI Presentation Services Port

specifying for Presentation Services connection, 1.5.1.3

BI Presentation Services Virtual Directory

specifying for Presentation Services connection, 1.5.1.3

biAnsReportWizardCancelEvent, 3.2.5.2

biAnsReportWizardRefreshCatalogEvent, 3.2.5.2

biAnsReportWizardSaveEvent, 3.2.5.2

biCatalogOverwriteAllowed, 3.2.5.1

biCatalogPath, 5.4.6

biConnectionId, 3.2.5.1, 3.2.5.3

BIConsumer role, 1.9.1.1

biContent element

adfbi content, 1.6

biContentType, 3.2.5.3

biDebugMode, 3.2.5.1

BIImpersonateUser

creating, 1.9.1

grant permission, 1.9.1.2

biPromptFilterXML, 3.2.5.1

biReportContainerPath, 3.2.5.1

biReportPath, 3.2.5.1, 3.2.5.3

BIReportViewer task flow ID, 3.2.5.3

biReportViewName, 3.2.5.1, 3.2.5.3

BIReportWizard task flow ID, 3.2.5.1

BIReportWizardTF task flow ID, 3.2.5.2

biReportXML, 3.2.5.1, 3.2.5.3

biShowIncompatibilityMessages, 3.2.5.1

biShowPreviewDefault, 3.2.5.1

biSubjectArea, 3.2.5.1

biTenantId, 3.2.5.1, 3.2.5.3

BIWebCenterTF, 5.4.6

business intelligence objects

embedding, 1.1

preparing ADF applications to accept, 1.4

use cases, 1.3

C

certification information, Preface

checking for JDeveloper extensions, 4.3.1.1

checking for JDeveloper updates, 1.4.1.2, 3.2.2, 4.3.1.2, 5.4.2

classpaths

adding MDS, 1.4.1.4

client certificates

Presentation Services connection, 1.5.1.2

configuring

Presentation Services connection, 1.5.1

SSL for Presentation Services connection, 1.5.1.1

connection

adding Presentation Services connection after deployment, 1.8

BI JDBC, 4.3.1.3

modifying Presentation Services connection after deployment, 1.8

Presentation Services, 1.5

Presentation Services credentials, 1.9

connectionID, 5.4.6

contextual event

biContent element, 1.6

example ADF contextual event, 1.6

Oracle BI EE contextual event, 1.7

credentials

create impersonate user, 1.9.1

impersonation, 1.5.1.3, 1.9

customizations

adding MDS libraries, 1.4.1.4

D

dashboard pages

overview of embedding in ADF page, 1.2

personalizations in ADF applications, 1.4.1.3

dashboards

overview of embedding in ADF page, 1.2

personalizations in ADF applications, 1.4.1.3

data source

configuring for impersonation, 4.4.2

creating BI JDBC data source, 4.4

databases supported, Preface

definition of QDR, 1.7.1

deployment

adding Presentation Services connection after, 1.8

domain

extend WebCenter to include libraries, 5.4.3

extension template, 3.2.4

E

elements

adfbi content, 1.6

embedding business intelligence objects

object types, 1.2

overview, 1.1

use cases, 1.3

events

BI Composer wizard edit events, 3.2.5.2

examples

setParameters, 1.6

timeout settings, 2.1.2

exporting client certificates, 1.5.1.2

Expression Language

replace default values with, 1.6

extension template

BI Composer, 3.2.4

F

features

new, Preface

new for 11.1.1.3, Preface

new for 11.1.1.5, Preface

filters

overriding values when embedding objects, 1.6.1

H

height, WebCenter Viewer and Editor parameter, 5.4.6

I

impersonation

configuring BI JDBC data source, 4.4.2

create impersonate user, 1.9.1

user credentials, 1.5.1.3, 1.9

importing client certificates, 1.5.1.2

improving application performance, 2

initializing ADF project with standard JDBC connection, 4.3.1.4

installing JDeveloper extensions, 1.4.1.2, 3.2.2, 4.3.1.2, 5.4.2

Invoke a Browser Script action type, 1.7

J

JDeveloper extensions

check for updates, 1.4.1.2, 3.2.2, 4.3.1.2, 5.4.2

installing, 1.4.1.2, 3.2.2, 4.3.1.2, 5.4.2

Oracle BI EE, 1.4.1, 1.4.1.1, 3.2.1, 4.3.1.1, 5.4.1

JRE

copy and import certificate, 1.5.1.2

K

key store

Web application client certificate, 1.5.1.2

L

libraries and classpaths

adding MDS, 1.4.1.4

BI Composer implementation libraries, 3.2.4

BI Composer library reference, 3.2.3

extend WebCenter domain, 5.4.3

Linux timeout settings, 2.1.2

literals

replace default values with, 1.6

Logical SQL View Object, 4.2.4

adding, 4.3.1.5

adding to ADF application, 4.3

modifying behavior, 4.3.1.6

overview, 4.1

SQL statements not supported, 4.3.1.5

use cases, 4.2

wiring, 4.3.1.6

M

master detail relationship, 4.2.4

MDS customizations

enabling for Oracle BI EE, 1.4.1.4

MDS libraries

adding to Oracle BI EE, 1.4.1.4

memory requirements, Preface

minimum disk space, Preface

N

new features

11.1.1.3, Preface

11.1.1.5, Preface

11.1.1.6, Preface

O

obipsType, 5.4.6

object types

embedding in ADF pages, 1.2

operating systems, supported, Preface

Oracle BI EE contextual event

Action Framework, 1.7

passing Oracle BI content with, 1.7

QDR payload, 1.7

Oracle BI EE Logical SQL View Object

adding to ADF application, 4.3

overview, 4.1

Oracle BI JDBC data source

adding, 4.4

Oracle BI Server

adding BI JDBC connection to, 4.3.1.3

creating BI JDBC data source in WebLogic, 4.4.1

setting timeout, 2.1

Oracle WebLogic

creating BI JDBC data source, 4.4.1

overriding parameters values

when embedding a object, 1.6.1

P

parameters

BI Composer WebCenter Viewer and Editor task flow, 5.4.6

BI Composer Wizard Viewer task flow, 3.2.5.3

BIComposer Wizard task flow, 3.2.5.1

run-time with Logical SQL View Object, 4.2.2

performance

improving, 2

permissions

BI Composer task flow security, 5.4.5

grant to BIImpersonateUser, 1.9.1.2

personalizations

overview, 1.4.1.3

platforms, supported, Preface

Presentation Services

integrating with WebCenter Portal application, 5.1, 5.2

Presentation Services connection

adding after deployment, 1.8

creating, 1.5, 1.5.1.3

modifying after deployment, 1.8

promptfilterxml, 5.4.6

prompts

overriding values when embedding objects, 1.6.1

Protocol

specifying for Presentation Services connection, 1.5.1.3

Q

QDR

definition, 1.7.1

Oracle BI EE contextual event, 1.7

signature, 1.7.2

R

requirements, system, Preface

rich user interface component

Logical SQL View Object, 4.2.1, 4.2.2

run-time parameter

Logical SQL View Object, 4.2.2

S

scorecard

overview of embedding in ADF page, 1.2

personalizations in ADF applications, 1.4.1.3

security

BI Composer task flow, 5.4.5

impersonate user, 1.9

specifying impersonation, 1.5.1.3

session timeout, 2.2

setParameters

biContent element, 1.6

setting Oracle BI Server timeout, 2.1

signature of QDR, 1.7.2

SQL statements not supported by Oracle BI View Object, 4.3.1.5

SSL

configuring after deployment, 1.8

configuring for connection, 1.5.1.1

standard JDBC connection

used to initialize ADF project, 4.3.1.4

static resources

overview, 2.3

testing, 2.3.2

Static Resources Location, 2.3.1

specifying for Presentation Services connection, 1.5.1.3

Static Resources Mode, 2.3.1

specifying for Presentation Services connection, 1.5.1.3

subItem, 5.4.6

supported installation types, Preface

system requirements, Preface

T

task flow

BI Composer WebCenter Viewer and Editor, 5.4.6

BI Composer Wizard Editor, 3.2.5.1

BI Composer Wizard Viewer, 3.2.5.3

task flow ID

BIReportViewerTF, 3.2.5.3

BIReportWizardTF, 3.2.5.1, 3.2.5.2

BIWebCenterTF, 5.4.6

technology scopes

adding to ADF project, 1.4.1.5

testing static resources, 2.3.2

timeout

example settings, 2.1.2

session timeout, 2.2

setting for Oracle BI Server, 2.1

U

upgrade considerations

11.1.1.3, Preface

11.1.1.5, Preface

use cases

embedding business intelligence objects, 1.3

Logical SQL View Object, 4.2

user

BIImpersonateUser, 1.9

USERSCRIPT.ADFAction, 1.7

V

view object

BI Logical SQL View Object, 4.2

Logical SQL, 4.1

W

Web application client certificate, 1.5.1.2

WebCenter Portal application

add BI Composer to, 5.3, 5.4

creating, 5.2

extend WebCenter domain, 5.4.3

integration overview, 5.1

WebCenter Portal: Spaces

adding BI Composer to, 5.3, 5.4

adding connection after deployment, 1.8

modifying Presentation Services connection after deployment, 1.8

WebCenter: Spaces

extend WebCenter domain, 5.4.3

WebLogic

creating BI JDBC data source, 4.4.1

width, WebCenter Viewer and Editor parameter, 5.4.6

Windows timeout settings, 2.1.2

wiring

biContent element parameters to ADF components, 1.6

Logical SQL View Object, 4.1, 4.3.1.6

Oracle BI EE contextual event action, 1.7

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