Bookshelf v10.1.3.2: What's New in This Release

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition consists of components that were formerly available from Siebel Systems as Siebel Business Analytics Platform, with a number of significant enhancements.

The Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Delivers, and Interactive Dashboards User Guide is part of the documentation set for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. This guide contains information about using Oracle's Answers, Delivers, and Interactive Dashboards applications to organize and present data for making critical and timely business decisions. This guide contains new material and material that was previously published under the title Siebel Analytics User Guide.

What's New in Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Delivers, and Interactive Dashboards User Guide, Version 10.1.3.2

Table 1 lists changes described in this version of the documentation to support Release 10.1.3.2 of the software.

Table 1. New Product Features in Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Delivers, and Interactive Dashboards User Guide, Version 10.1.3.2
Topic	Description
All	All topics have been updated with new product names.
New time zone support. Setting Your Oracle BI Time Zone.	Added new subtopic describing how to select a preferred time zone for the user's account.
New time zone support. Editing the Appearance of Column Contents in Oracle BI Answers.	Added Step 4 to explain how to apply a specific time zone to a date/time column.
New time zone support. Editing the Layout of Column Contents in Oracle BI Answers.	Added the "To include the TimeZone icon" subtopic to instruct the user how to add the TimeZone icon to the column.
New RSS feed functionality. Adding an RSS Feed Option to a Dashboard Page's Catalog Folder.	New topic describing how to retrieve the necessary URL information for building an RSS feed to a catalog folder. This topic also contains information about third-party RSS reader requirements.
New dashboard proxy functionality. Accessing Another Oracle BI User's Account.	New topic describing the dashboard proxy functionality and how to view or modify another user's reports and/or dashboards.
Oracle BI Publisher integration. Removal of Advanced Reporting support. Working with Oracle BI Publisher Reports.	This section was rewritten to address the Oracle BI Publisher intergration, as well as remove references to Advanced Reporting. Two new subtopics were added to this section: "Selecting an Oracle BI Publisher Report Type" and "Accesing the Oracle BI Publisher Application."
New print briefing book functionality. Editing, Downloading, or Printing an Oracle BI Briefing Book.	Added Step 8 to address generating and printing a briefing book PDF file.
New RSS feed functionality. Accessing Oracle BI Alerts.	Added suptopic ("To add an RSS for alerts") describing how to retrieve the necessary URL information for building an RSS feed to the Alerts page. This topic also contains information about third-party RSS reader requirements.
New archiving catalog functionality. Archiving the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog.	New topic describing how to archive a folder or the whole presentation catalog.
New ability to create an iBot from a saved request within Oracle BI Answers. Creating an iBot in Oracle BI Delivers directly from a saved request in Oracle BI Answers	Added new topic with task showing how to create an iBot from a saved request in Oracle BI Answers.
Improvements made to the Oracle BI Delivers user interface. Creating and Managing iBots Using the Oracle BI Delivers Start Page. and Viewing, Modifying, Subscribing to and Customizing Oracle BI Delivers iBots	Added various general improvements made to the Oracle BI Delivers user interface.
Additional iBot results formats supported in Oracle BI Delivers. Specifying the Delivery Content for an iBot	Added new functionality that enables Oracle BI Delivers users to send the results of an iBot as an attachment in Microsoft Excel or Comma Separated Value (CSV) file format.
Improved management of delivery devices and delivery profiles in Oracle BI Delivers. Configuring Your Oracle BI Delivers Devices, and Delivery Profiles	Altered and simplified how delivery devices and delivery profiles are presented and configured in Oracle BI Delivers.
New ability to create nested folders in Oracle BI Delivers. Using the Save iBot Dialog Box to organize your iBots	Added new functionality that enables Oracle BI Delivers users to create a new folder in an existing folder.
New ability to search for iBots in Oracle BI Delivers. Creating and Managing iBots Using the Oracle BI Delivers Start Page	Added new functionality that enables Oracle BI Delivers users to better manage their iBot subscriptions by searching for iBots by name.
New ability to run a custom Java program as part of an iBot in Oracle BI Delivers. About Custom Script Action Properties	Added new functionality to specify a custom Java program to execute when the current iBot completes in Oracle BI Delivers.
New ability to use Presentation Variables in Oracle BI. Using Variables to Display Values in Request Results, Dashboards and iBots	Added new functionality to specify presentation variables in requests and iBots in Oracle BI.
Improvements made to the Oracle BI Answers and Interactive Dashboards user interface. Overview of Oracle BI Answers, and Overview of Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards	Added general improvements to the Oracle BI Answers and Interactive Dashboards user interface.
New pivot table functionality in Oracle BI Answers. Showing Results in Pivot Tables Using Oracle BI Pivot Table View	Added new functionality for pivot tables in Oracle BI Answers enabling users to create totals at various grouping levels, suppress section headers, allow page breaks at section level, include column values in total rows, and suppress blank rows.
New drag and drop functionality in Oracle BI Answers compound views. Assembling Views for Display on a Dashboard Using Oracle BI Compound Layout View	Added new functionality to Oracle BI Answers enabling users to rearrange compound view objects using drag and drop.
New conditional formatting functionality for charts in Oracle BI Answers. Formatting the Visual Appearance of Charts	Added new functionality to Oracle BI Answers enabling users to apply formatting to charts based on rules.
New functionality to easily insert content into a column formula in Oracle BI Answers. Editing the Formula of a Column	Added new functionality to Oracle BI Answers enabling users to add functions, filters, columns, and variables to a column formula using a button bar.
New functionality to easily apply conditional aggregates in Oracle BI Answers. Editing the Formula of a Column	Added new functionality to Oracle BI Answers enabling users to add conditional aggregates (using filter expressions) to a column formula, avoiding the need to create multiple CASE statements.
New functionality to customize fonts in charts in Oracle BI Answers. Specifying General Chart Properties in Oracle BI Chart View	Added new functionality to Oracle BI Answers enabling users to format the text and numeric values that are displayed in titles, axis titles, and labels of chart views.