Enable Workbook Users to Share Visualizations on X

Administrators can set up an X (formerly Twitter) channel in Oracle Analytics, so that content authors can share their data visualizations on their organization's X feed.

To enable Oracle Analytics to share data visualization workbooks through your organization’s X app:

Before you start, make sure that you have an X app feed set up.
  1. Obtain the client ID and client secret values for the X app that you want to use to share data visualizations.
    1. Open X Application Manager, for example developer.twitter.com.
    2. Click the app that you want to use for tweets.
    3. On the Keys and Tokens tab, obtain the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret Key values.
    4. On the Permissions tab, select Read, write, and direct messages.
  2. Configure the X channel in Oracle Analytics.
    1. On your home page, click Navigator Navigator icon used to display the Navigator, then click Console.
    2. Click Content-Sharing Platforms.
    3. For Service, select X.
    4. Change Status to Active.
    5. For Application Name, enter the name of the app that you set up in X Application Manager.
    6. For Client ID and Client Secret, enter the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret values that you obtained in X Application Manager (Step 1).
    7. Click Update.
    8. Click Copy to Clipboard to copy the redirect URL for Oracle Analytics.
  3. In X Application Manager, configure the callback URL for Oracle Analytics.
    1. In X Application Manager, click the app to use for tweets.
    2. On the App Details tab, click Edit and paste the clipboard content in the Callback URL field.
    3. Click Save.
  4. Verify you can share a visualization on the X channel.
    1. In Oracle Analytics, open a workbook.
    2. On the Visualize or Narrate canvas, click the Export icon.
    3. Click Twitter.
    If you set up and activate the channel correctly, Twitter displays as an option on the Export menu.