Generating topic reports

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In Empirica Signal, you can generate one of two built-in reports. If Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE) is configured, you can generate OBI EE reports, including one of the pre-defined reports provided by Oracle.

Generating a standard topic report

1.         Click the Topics tab

The Topics page appears.

2.         Click Select Rows.

The Topics page refreshes with a check box next to each topic.

3.         Select the check box for the topics that you want to include in a report.

To select all rows, click Select All. To de-select all rows, click Clear All.

Note: You can select up to 5000 topics from the Topics page.

4.         Click Reports, and select either of the following reports:

• Topics by State
• Topics by Action Due Date

5.         In the dialog box that appears, make additional specifications:

• For the Topics by State report, select one or more topic states to include on the report.
• For the Topics by Action Due Date report, select one or more action completion status date ranges to include on the report. The planned completion date for each action in the selected topics is compared to the current date to determine the action completion status.

6.         Click View Report.

The report appears.

Generating a predefined topic report in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE)

The Oracle BI EE reports include only the topics that are visible to you when working on the Topics tab. The report includes the topics that you created and those that are visible to the work teams to which you are assigned.

Note: You must have at least the BI Consumer user permission and the View Topics permission to access the reports.

1.         Click the Topics tab.

The Topics page appears.

2.         Click Report next to the Add Topic link.

The Oracle BI EE login page appears.

Note: The Report link is available only when your Database Administrator and IT Administrator have completed the Oracle BI EE reporting setup.

3.         Log in to Oracle BI EE using your Empirica Signal username and password, and click Sign In.

The Topics Dashboard appears.

4.         Click Open next to a report.

If the Topics Dashboard does not appear, do the following to access topic reports:

1.         Click Catalog at the top of the page.

The Catalog tab appears.

2.         In the Folders pane, expand Shared Folders.

3.         Expand the Topics subfolder.

4.         Expand My Dashboard, and click Topics.

A list of topic reports appears.

5.         Click Open next to a report.