Before You Begin

This tutorial shows you how to upload an image to share with Oracle Analytics workbooks.

Background

In Oracle Analytics, you can add images to workbooks and canvas layout templates. These images can act as a standard background for the workbook, a specific canvas, or a visualization. You can also add your company's logo as an image that appears on every canvas of the workbook. When an image is saved as a shared image, you can reuse it in other workbooks and use it in a workbook layout template.

The size limit for an individual shared image is 10MB. If you encounter an "image is too large" message on upload, lower the compression value. Oracle Analytics compresses uploaded images at 80%. The overall limit for all shared images in cloud storage is 50GB.

Your administrator uses the Console to manage all images uploaded by content authors.

What Do You Need?

  • Access to Oracle Analytics
  • Download the following to your computer:
  • Access as a Content Author with these permissions for the shared layout section of this tutorial:
    • Manage Themes and Layouts
    • Create and Edit Shared Themes
    • Create and Edit Shared Layouts

Create a Workbook

In this section, you create a dataset and workbook.

  1. Sign in to Oracle Analytics.
  2. On your Home page, click Create, and then click Dataset.
  3. In Create Dataset, click Drop data file here or click to browse, select the sample_order_lines2023.xlsx file, and then click Open.
  4. In Create Dataset Table from sample_order_lines2023.xlsx, click OK.
  5. Click Save Save icon. In Save Dataset As, enter sample_order_lines2023, and then click OK.


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  6. Click Create Workbook. Close the Insights panel.

Upload an Image for a Workbook Background

In this section, you begin with a workbook that doesn't contain any visualizations and then you upload an image to create a background for the visualizations.

  1. Click the workbook Menu Workbook menu icon and select Workbook Properties.
  2. In Workbook Properties, click Auto in the Background Image row and select Custom.
  3. Click None in the Image Source row and select Shared Image.
  4. In Select a Shared Image, click Upload Shared Image upload shared image icon next to the empty field.
  5. In Upload Shared Image, click upload image Upload Image icon. In File Upload, select abstracts_tan_2.png and click Open.
  6. Click Save. Click OK in Workbook Properties.


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  7. In the Data pane, hold down the Ctrl key, select Customer Segment, Product Sub Category, and Sales. Drag the data elements to the canvas.


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  8. Click Save. In Save Workbook, enter a Name and click Save.

Upload Your Company Logo

In this section, you upload a logo to place as an image in every workbook by creating a shared layout template that contains the logo.

  1. Click Go back Go back icon. On your home page, click Create. In Create, click Workbook. Close the Insights panel.
  2. In Add Data, click sample_order_lines2023 and click Add to Workbook.
  3. Click Visualizations Visualizations pane icon. In the Visualizations pane, select Image Image vis icon and drag it to the canvas.


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  4. Click canvas menu canvas menu icon and select Canvas Properties. In Canvas Properties, click Auto Fit in the Layout row, select Freeform, and then click OK.
  5. Place your cursor over a handle handle icon to resize the image visualization.


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  6. In the image visualization, click Select Image. In Select Image, click Shared Image and click Select Shared Image.
  7. In Select a Shared Image, click Upload Shared Image. In Upload Shared Image, click upload image upload image icon. In File Upload, select the oracle_logo.png and click Open. In Upload Shared Image, click Save.


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  8. Place your cursor over a handle handle icon to resize the image visualization to fit the logo.
  9. Click Visualizations Visualizations pane icon. In the Visualizations pane, select and drag empty visualizations to the canvas to complete the layout.
  10. Click the canvas menu canvas menu icon and select Save As Shared Layout. In Save As Shared Layout, enter Company Logo Layout in Name and click Save.


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