Use a Subject Area as a Dataset

A workbook can contain one or more subject areas. You can also create workbooks that contain subject areas and any other type of data source, for example a spreadsheet or database data source.

You must have permission to use a specific subject area to create a workbook. If you don't have permissions to the specific subject area, that subject area isn't available for you to use in a workbook, as a dataset, or analysis.

You can’t use Oracle Analytics to modify subject areas. For example, you can’t exclude a column, change a column’s data type or aggregation rule, or change the column from a measure column to an attribute column. You must use enterprise reporting and modeling tools to make changes to subject areas.