Installing Smart View

  To install Smart View:

  1. Ensure that Microsoft Excel is installed with the Visual Basic Option.

  2. Choose a method:

    • From eDelivery, download Smart View. If you are licensed to use Oracle Essbase Visual Explorer, the filename is smartviewHVE.exe. Otherwise, it is smartview.exe.

    • If you have installed and configured EPM Workspace, you can launch the Smart View installer from within EPM Workspace. Select Tools, then Install, and then Smart View.

  3. Proceed through the installation wizard, and when installation is complete, click Finish. Smart View is displayed the next time you open a Microsoft Office application.

  4. Visual Explorer licensees only: To make Visual Explorer available to users, copy smartviewHVE.exe to the following location and rename it to smartview.exe: EPM_ORACLE_HOME/common/epmstatic/wspace/SmartView

    Tip:

    Rename the existing smartview.exe file before performing this step.

Administrators can enable silent installations — installations that do not require settings to be specified each time — for Smart View. The silent installation command can be included in scripts to automate installation.

  To run silent installations:

  1. Open a command line prompt.

  2. Navigate to the directory of the Smart View installer.

  3. Run one of the following commands:

    • To install in the default directory, run SmartView.exe /s /v"/qn URL=http://server:19000/workspace/SmartViewProviders"

    • To install in another directory, run SmartView.exe /s /v"/qn INSTALLDIR=targetPath", for example, SmartView.exe /s /v"/qn INSTALLDIR=D:\SmartView"

    • To run silent installation and log the installation sequence, run SmartView.exe /s /v" /qn /l*c log,. For example: SmartView.exe /s /v" /qn /l*c C:\sv_silent_install.log"

    For Oracle Essbase Visual Explorer users, replace SmartView.exe with SmartViewHVE.exe in the command line.