Analytics > Designing an Action > Setting Action Options
Setting Action Options
You must specify settings for each action you create. You specify the settings for a new action in the Create New Action dialog when you do any of the following tasks:
- Creating Named Actions
- Adding Actions to Analyses
- About Adding Actions to Dashboard Pages
To set action options
- Click the Create New Action link and then select the type of action to create.
- Depending on the type of action that you are creating or editing, do one of the following, as described in the following table:
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Action Type
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What You Do
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Navigate to BI Content
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Select the Oracle BI content to which to navigate.
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Navigate to a Web page
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In the URL field, enter the URL of the web page.
Tip: You can highlight the URL in the browser and copy and paste it into the URL field.
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- (optional for a Navigate to Web Page action) To define parameters for the action, click Define Parameters to display the Define Parameters list.
- To add a parameter, click the Add Parameter button. A new parameter row is added to the Define Parameters list. (Note that the Add Parameter button is not available for all action types.)
- Specify the column values for each parameter:
- In the Name column, if you are creating a new parameter, then enter the name of the parameter. Use a name that is unique within the action.
- In the Prompt column, if you want the user to provide the parameter value, then enter the prompt to display to the user.
- In the Value column, to provide a parameter value, enter or select the value. If you want the user to specify the value, then leave this field as is.
- In the Fixed column, specify whether to allow users to see but not set the parameter. This column is not available for all action types.
- In the Hidden column, specify whether to hide the parameter from users. This column is not available for all action types.
- In the Optional column, specify whether the parameter requires a value before the action can be executed.
- (optional) Customize information displayed to the user when the action runs:
- Click Options to display the Action Options dialog.
- Specify the customization that you want.
- Click OK.
This functionality is available only for actions where it is appropriate to display information to users.
- Click OK.
If you are creating a named action, then a dialog is displayed where you specify the information for saving the action.
For more information, see the following:
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