6 Creating Data Visualizations
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About Visualizations
Oracle LSH provides a Generic Visualization Adapter (GVA) that creates a database schema for a corresponding Business Areas Instance. You can use these schemas to read, analyze and report on Oracle LSH data through any external visualization tool if you have appropriate security permissions. Refer to the section, "Using a Generic Visualization Adapter to View Data" in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub Application Developer's Guide for details.
You can use a public API to initialize access to data to the Generic Visualization Business Area based on your security permissions. Refer to the section, "Data Security for a Generic Visualization Adapter (GVA) Business Area" in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub Application Developer's Guide for details.
To access data externally, you must log in to an external system. You could then use the BA Namings views to see the available GV Business Areas and their corresponding Tables in Oracle LSH if you have read permissions. Or, you could use a Naming view to select a GV Business Area that you have access to and provide the Business Area schema name to the initialization API to enable data access.
Oracle LSH verifies your user privileges or direct security grants if any, and accordingly enables access to data in the Business Area Tables.
Refer to the section on "Public APIs and Naming Views for Generic Visualization Adapter (GVA)" in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub Application Programming Interface Guide for details.
You can also open supported visualization tools directly from the Visualizations subtab of the Reports tab to create data visualizations. Before you can create a Visualization, a Definer must set up a Business Area instance containing pointers to the data you require. The Definer classifies the Business Area instance so that Oracle LSH displays it appropriately, according to your company's classification system, in the Visualizations subtab of the Reports tab. You open the visualization tool within the context of a particular Business Area and have access to the data in that Business Area from that visualization tool. See "Defining Business Areas for Visualizations" in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub Application Developer's Guide for more information.
Oracle LSH security controls access to the data.
To find documentation for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, visit Oracle Technology Network at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html
For information on using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.3 to create visualizations—Answers and Dashboards—see the Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Delivers, and Interactive Dashboards User's Guide at:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10415_01/doc/bi.1013/b31767.pdf
For information on other visualization tools that your company has created or supports, follow your company's instructions.
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Creating a Visualization
To find a Business Area instance and create a Visualization:
Note:
When you launch an OBIEE visualization, log in with your Oracle LSH username and password in OBIEE.
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Setting Data Currency and Blinding Values
You can determine the blinding status and currency of the data you see by clicking the Launch Settings button and selecting a value for Blind Break and Shared Snapshot Label.
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Setting the Blind Break Value
This setting is relevant only when one or more source Table instances either currently or formerly contained blinded data. Special privileges are required to view real data that is either currently blinded or was formerly blinded.
Note:
You must have Read Data privileges in order to see any data at all.
If you launch the Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services from outside Oracle LSH (using the Presentation Services public URL), you cannot see blinded data regardless of your privileges.
The following choices are available depending both on the state of the data and on your security privileges:
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Not Applicable. If none of the data has ever been blinded, the only option available is Not Applicable. No special privileges are required.
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Dummy. If any of the data has ever been blinded, this option appears. If you do not have the privileges, this is the only option available. If you do have the privileges required, you see Dummy plus one of the following options, depending on the state of the data and your privileges. Select Dummy to view dummy (not real) data.
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Real (Blind Break). If any of the data is currently blinded, and you have the required privileges, you can select this option to view real data in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition according to your company's policies. The table(s) containing the blinded data remain blinded after you run the visualization.
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Real (Unblinded). If any of the data was formerly blinded but is currently unblinded and none of the data is currently blinded, and you have the required privileges, you can select this option to view real data, according to your company's policies.
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Setting the Shared Snapshot Label Value
If all the relevant Table instances share one or more snapshot labels, those snapshot labels appear in this drop-down list and you can select one. See "Setting Source Data Currency" for more information on snapshot labels.
In addition, you normally have the option to view the current data.
Parent topic: Setting Data Currency and Blinding Values