Creating OBIEE Pagelets and Tiles

This section discusses how to use Pagelet Wizard and Tile Wizard to create pagelets from OBIEE reports and tiles from OBIEE reports and dashboards:

To create OBIEE report pagelets:

  1. Load the OBIEE report into the PeopleSoft application.

  2. Select PeopleTools > Portal > Pagelet Wizard > Pagelet Wizard.

    Pagelet Wizard guides you through the process, by displaying a sequence of pages. Each page corresponds to a step in the process. A guide appears in a header above the page to indicate your progress.

  3. Specify the pagelet information in step 1.

    See Step 1: Entering Pagelet Identifying Information.

  4. Specify OBIEE as the data type in step 2. In addition, select the report ID and report view ID from which the pagelet will read data.

    Note: If you have not loaded the OBIEE report into the PeopleSoft application, this step fails.

    See Selecting an OBIEE Report Data Source.

  5. Specify the data source parameters.

    See Specifying OBIEE Data Source Parameters.

  6. Select Passthru as the display format.

  7. Specify display options, such as additional text and a search capability.

    See Step 5: Specifying Pagelet Display Options.

  8. Specify the publishing options.

    See Specifying Pagelet Publication Options.

To create tiles from OBIEE reports or dashboards:

  1. Load the OBIEE report into the PeopleSoft application.

  2. Select PeopleTools > Portal > Tile Wizard.

    Tile Wizard guides you through the process, by displaying a sequence of pages. Each page corresponds to a step in the process. A guide appears in a header above the page to indicate your progress.

  3. Specify the basic tile information in step 1.

    See Step 1: Tile Basic Information.

  4. Specify OBIEE as the data type in step 2. In addition, select the report ID or dashboard ID from which the tile will read data. In addition, you will specify data source parameters at this step.

    Note: If you have not loaded the OBIEE report into the PeopleSoft application, this step fails.

    See Step 2: Data Source Information - OBIEE.

  5. Specify target page information.

    See Step 3: Target Page Information.

  6. Specify tile display options such as size, interactivity, and so on.

    See Step 4: Tile Layout Properties.

  7. Publish the tile definition.

    See Step 5: Review and Submit.