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Communication error with the OPMN server local port

I ran into an interesting problem the other day when trying to start OBIEE components via OPMN. I kept getting the following message: “Communication error with the OPMN server local port” After a lot...

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New Oracle BI EE Tutorial

Oracle have added another BI EE tutorial to their Learning Library. This one is based on the latest version (11.1.1.6.2 with BP1) and covers how to create and customise Analyses use them to build...

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Briefing Book Table of Contents Page

Quick tip… You can define the front page of PDF Briefing Books by editing toc-template.rtf found in this directory:...

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Action Link text is Exported to Excel

On a recent customer project I came across an interesting scenario when trying to export a report to Excel. The report in question contained Action Links (invoking a Browser Script) and when exported,...

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Informatica: Impacted Sessions Error

I came across an interesting error when trying to run a customised Informatica Workflow. It failed and this message appeared in the log file: “The Repository Service marked the session or session...

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5 BI Publisher Blogs

It occured to me the other day that I’ve never posted anything concerning BI Publisher. To address that I thought I’d share a few of the better blogs on the subject that I’ve come across over the...

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Images with Relative Path not Exported to PDF

Just a quickie… We ran into an interesting situation today when exporting some dashboard contents to PDF. It seems the PDF conversion mechanism can’t reproduce images when they are referenced with a...

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BI Publisher Best Practices

Here’s a useful presentation I found the other day on the Oracle website. BI Publisher Best Practices

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Performance Testing/Tuning OBIEE

Recently I’ve been heavily involved with Performance Testing and Tuning a new OBIA system for a client. I thought I’d share some of the interesting reading I’ve come across. I hope to write a more...

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Populating OBIEE Event Polling Table via Trigger

When using Oracle BI Applications there is often the need to invalidate OBIEE’s query cache once new data has been loaded into the Data Warehouse to prevent users from seeing stale data in the reports....

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