Connecting to Multiple Oracle BI EE Data Sources
You connect to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition data sources using private connections.
See Creating Private Connections for more information on private connections.
To connect using shared connections, the shared connection information must be stored in a file, as described in Accessing Shared Connections from an XML File in the Oracle Smart View for Office Installation and Configuration Guide.
Additionally, Oracle Smart View for Office supports multiple Oracle BI EE private connections on one Office worksheet, slide, or document.
For example, in one worksheet, you may insert two graphs from two different Oracle BI Presentation Catalogs and refresh the sheet. Each graph will be updated with the latest data from the two different servers.
When connected to multiple Oracle BI EE servers:
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Users can switch between those connections in the Smart View Panel and browse the respective catalogs.
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Users can insert views from the different connections into the same Office document.
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If View Designer is launched from the Smart View ribbon and no Oracle BI EE view is selected, then View Designer will be connected to the Oracle BI EE server that was last used.
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If Paste is invoked from the Smart View ribbon to paste content from Oracle BI EE, the paste action will use the last Oracle BI EE connection that was used.
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When refreshing a document containing views from different connections, the views will be refreshed against the servers from which they were inserted.
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There can be only one Excel pivot table view per Excel worksheet. Additionally, Excel pivot table views are always inserted onto a new worksheet. This is the expected behavior, whether you are working with a single data source connection or with multiple connections.
To connect to multiple Oracle BI EE private connections: