About Accessing Shared Connections from an XML File

You can use shared connection information from an XML file to connect to supported Oracle Smart View for Office providers, both cloud and on-premises. The XML file can exist either locally on each individual Smart View client machine or on a web server. Smart View end users point to this XML file in the Shared Connections URL field of the Options dialog box, and then access the available providers as they would any other shared connection to which they have access.

To connect to an Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition provider from the Shared Connections Panel in Smart View, you must follow the procedures in this topic. However, you may also connect to Oracle BI EE data sources from the Private Connections Panel using the procedure described in "Creating Private Connections" in the Oracle Smart View for Office User's Guide.