To set up the server environment for autodeployment of Oracle Smart View for Office:
Oracle Essbase: Choose a method:
Use Administration Services Console (if available).
Connect to the Provider Server, select Edit, then Properties, then Client Deployment.
Choose either Force Smart View client to upgrade or Warn Smart View client to upgrade.
Select the Apply Smart View client to upgrade check box, and then click Apply.
Update essbase.properties
as follows:
Navigate to EPM_ORACLE_INSTANCE\bin\essbase.properties
.
Set either or both of these properties to true:
smartview.webservice.autodeploy.force=true smartview.webservice.autodeploy.warn=true
Oracle Hyperion Planning:
Select Administration, then Manage Properties, and then System Properties.
Set these properties:
SMART_VIEW_FORCE_INSTALL=true SMART_VIEW_DISPLAY_WARNING=true
Oracle Hyperion Financial Management: In the Financial Management Web Server Configuration Utility for Smart View, select Always force client to upgrade.
Oracle Hyperion Reporting and Analysis: Autodeployment is automatic.
SmartView.exe
and version.xml
before deploying the replacement files.SmartView.exe
and version.xml
to the location of the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management Workspace installation, typically:
C:\Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\common\epmstatic\wspace\SmartView
This is the epmstatic location specific to Smart View.
Option A (Upgrading from 11.1.2.1.x, 11.1.2.2.x, or 11.1.2.3.x)
If your users are upgrading from an installed Smart View version of 11.1.2.1.x, 11.1.2.2.x, or 11.1.2.3.x, open the version.xml
file in the epmstatic location specific to Smart View (see step 5), and edit the value in the installFile
tag to point to the location of the Smart View executable file (step 5) as follows:
<installFile> /epmstatic/wspace/SmartView/SmartView.exe </installFile>
Option B (Upgrading from 11.1.2.5.000 or Later)
If your users are upgrading from an installed Smart View version 11.1.2.5.000 or later, choose only one of the following options and perform the tasks described:
OTN Option
Do not modify the version.xml
file in the epmstatic location specific to Smart View (step 5).
Your users will automatically be directed to the Smart View page on OTN, where they can download the installation zip file to their own machines, unzip the contents, and run the installer.
"epmstatic" Option
Open the version.xml
file in the epmstatic location specific to Smart View (see step 5) and edit the value in the installFile
tag to point to the location of the Smart View executable file (step 5) as follows:
<installFile> /epmstatic/wspace/SmartView/SmartView.exe </installFile>
Web App Server Option
Post the SmartView.exe
file to a web app server in your environment, and then modify the version.xml
file to point to the fully-qualified URL.
Copy only the SmartView.exe
to the web app server where you will be hosting the file.
Open the version.xml
file in the epmstatic location specific to Smart View (see step 5), and edit the value in the installFile
tag to point to the fully-qualified URL where you are hosting the Smart View executable file (see step a); for example:
<installFile> http://webServerHost:webServerPort/pathToSmartViewExe/SmartView.exe </installFile>
Your Smart View users can now proceed with Client Installation.