When we left off on the last installment of Tips and Hints for Financial Reporting Studio, we had covered Selecting Multiple Members Based on Criteria, in this installment I intend to walk you through how to create a User defined Member List. Member lists are user-defined saved queries. Member lists can include members, other member lists, and functions.

Yesterday, I attended the PCamp 2010, an annual event for Product Managers to share Prod Mgmt best practices from, mostly software, product companies of various sizes. Attended several good sessions on PM practices, met interesting people, product use cases, and learnt about how PMs operate and make decisions in the agile (as opposed to waterfall) development world.

I picked up a few things at the conference:

One of the annoying things in ODI is that you can’t print out the value of an ODI variable to the Operator module without a workaround. In this workaround you throw an exception in Jython or the Java BeanShell and pass the ODI variable as an argument to the exception method,e.g. in Jython you can [...]

A little history - India in mid-70's realized a need of an indigenous MBT and embarked upon once seemed a never ending path. Today after three decades of ups and downs the development of Arjun has been completed as it now competes with world's other Main battle tanks. It will not be an exaggeration to say Arjun is one menacing beast but to no avail because its user has already taken a love route

 Oracle BI Publisher Blog

• Middleware

In this installment of my blog contributions I would like to focus on some techniques that I have leveraged to get through some of the more challenging aspects of reports development.

I had a student in the last Oracle A-Team's WebCenter bootcamp that gave me the brilliant idea of mapping all WebCenter Spaces components listed on the Site Template white paper, available on OTN, to some Spaces' screenshots in order to help them quickly identify which component on screen is actually the one referenced in the document.

1. Login Link

In part 2 I showed you the Columns structure, in this article I want to show you the filter structure

The {saw:filter} structure

This one is for standalone/BIEE uses of Publisher. All the ERP/CRM/HCM folks are already catered for and can tuck into a nut cutlet and arugala salad. Sorry, I have just watched Food Inc and even if only half of it is true; Im still on a crusade in my house against mass produced food. Wake up World!

Is Jdeveloper hanging on you when use the XPATH expression Builder? Have a look at the Release notes for 11.1.1.2. This will relieve a lot of frustration.

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15523_01/doc.1111/e14770/bpel.htm#BABECHBF

16.1.6 Oracle JDeveloper May Hang When Using the Expression Builder

Using the Expression Builder to build XPath expressions may cause
Oracle JDeveloper to hang. If that happens, perform the following steps:

I was just checking up on Google charts this morning to see what was new. They now support QR codes, another barcode format that you might need in your outputs at some point.

similar to datamatrix barcodes, its used to store large amounts of data. Kudos to someone that can decipher the contents of the code on the left (no cheating folks :)
To quote Google,

 Glenn Schwartzberg's Essbase Blog

The last quiz I did was very easy and was answered by a number of people very quickly. In addition, it wasnot technical at all. This quiz is a little harder and makes you think a little.

The problem.

For any large OBIEE project the normal set-up would involve having a development machine, a test machine, Production machines and some form of disaster recovery. These normally need to be on separate physical machines, mainly for access rights reason and of course the DR machines need to be in a separate building (hopefully in [...]

Transshipments
In some Essbase models there is a need to capture two essentially identical elements in separate dimensions. One common example of this is a transshipment model, where it is necessary to identify both the origination and destination of a shipment.

Two Dimensions

No Clutter
Don’t clutter your dashboard with unnecessary visual elements and data. If it looks too busy, then it will fail to communicate the data effectively. Don’t include every bit of data in a dashboard. Seperate them into separate dashboard Tabs.
Single Page – No Horizontal scrolling
Do not put objects on the far right so that [...]

In little over a month I will be in Las Vegas speaking at Collaborate 10. There is a lot of BI / DW talks this year and for the first time with BIWA Training Days branding. Rittman Mead will be there at the conference giving talks on each of the conference days. If you are [...]

In part I showed you the base structure. In this part I want to show you the Columns Structure:

As the awareness of Oracle Data Miner increases so does the interest in trying out and playing with Oracle Data Miner (ODM). The following set of instructions steps you through what is required to download and install the database, configure a data mining user in the database, populate the data mining user with some data. [...]

The 4th puzzle in this series was a reasonably simple one which basically demonstrates a capability that allows end users to bypass the security applied in the BI Server layer. There are 3 possible solutions for this
Solution 1: Using Evaluate
EVALUATE was introduced in the 10.1.3.3.1 version of BI EE, that allows end users to call [...]

On the OTN forums (http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1039411&tstart=0) an example for this:

Interesting article summarizing the many areas where Oracle has significant engagement with open source. Many of the areas outlined are important for the application grid architecture and approach, including Java, GlassFish, and Oracle VM.

 The Official AIA Blog

 Prash's blog

 Paul Done's Technical Blog

 ~pperalta