Configure Subject Areas

How do I configure multiple subject areas in OBIEE 11G?
Thanks,
Akshatha

Hi,
You said u r using obiee11g version right, in this if u want to change the RPD,Catalog you need to delpoyee via weblogic Enterprise Manager.
refer the below link for deployeeing.
http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2010/08/obiee11g-deploying-new-rpd.html
second think,
better to keep mulitple subject area in the same RPD. if you have mulitple RPD first merg it everything into Single RPD then it should work.
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/fmw/bi/bi11115/import_merge/merging_importing_11g.htm
Thanks
Deva

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Configuring rpd file to see on obiee as subject area

Hello,
I am done creating an rpd file no error at all. Can anyone give me a step on how can i see through obiee as a subject area the rpd file i created?
thanks in advance.

Can anyone give me a step on how can i see through obiee as a subject area the rpd file i created?After creating the RPD file without error,you need to add this file to NQSconfig.ini in that you will find a file named sample.RPD ,DEFAULT that should be commented and add your ROD file details same as that.Below that you need to change the cache enable=No
You can find it in this link
[http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe_bi/bi_ee_1013/bi_admin/biadmin.html#t4s3]
Hope it helps you.Award points if correct
Best Wishes,
Kranthi.

Google Map Issue in OBIEE - Subject area not getting associated

Hi Gurus,
We are trying to integrate Google map and OBIEE via mapviewer. We have done the following already -
1. Loaded World Sample data from Navteq.
2. Configured mapviewer source and added Google map as a tile layer with the API KEY.
3. Imported one layer (e.g. M_STATES_ABRV) in OBIEE and linked it with BI subject area (tried this step with importing other layers as well)
4. Added background map.
Now , in this step when we add the layer in the map, we select M_STATES_ABRV and change zoom levels. But Once we come back to main screen after Clicking OK, we see the background map is not associated with the subject area. Hence any map view report creation with this subject area fails.
We have the tried the same theme with Oracle Maps (internal type like WORLD MAP or DEMO MAP), it works fine. only Google Map gives this issue.
This was not expected. Please suggest what we missed. We tried with cache clear, tile delete and recreation, service restart almost everything .
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OBIEE version - 11.1.1.7.140527
Environment- windows server 2008 R2
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Regards,
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I have found the solution: You need to *select* zoom levels for the BI Layer. When a BI Layer is added to a background map, by default no zoom layers are selected. Once a zoom level is selected, the BI Layer will save.

Multiple Fiscal Calendars Displayed in Subject Area Time Dimension

Hi all,
Thanks for taking the time to review my post.
Environment
Oracle BI Applications 7.9.6 Financial Analytics
Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10
Query
The Time dimension on my Subject Areas (Financial Analytics) are showing more period data than I expected.
I have configured one Enterprise Calendar (WPG_Calendar) that I set in the DAC parameters - $$GBL_CALENDAR_ID (WPG_Calendar~Month) and $$GBL_DATASOURCE_NUM_ID (4). The warehouse Enterprise Calendar table W_ENT_PERIOD_D is populating with the periods as configured in EBS for that calendar(Jan-09, Feb-0, Mar-09, etc). I noticed that the Multiple Fiscal W_MCAL_PERIOD_D table is also been populated with the Enterprise Calendar data PLUS, the Seeded EBS calendar (JEBE_MONTH_VAT) and a generated Calendar that appears to be a 5-4-5-4 Calendar (Jan-01-09, Jan-02-09, Jan-03-09, etc). The trouble is these W_MCAL_PERIOD_D periods and dates are all coming through in my Time dimensions and make it confusing for the Answers Users when choosing a Time dimension.
Also, for columns W_CURRENT_MCAL_PERIOD_CODE, W_CURRENT_MCAL_QTR_CODE, W_CURRENT_MCAL_YEAR_CODE there are rows with Current, Previous and Next populated that span these different periods as you would expect, but I'm concerned these return multiple rows for Filters Current Fiscal Quater, Current Fiscal Year.
Funnily enough, W_CURRENT_MCAL_MONTH_CODE has nothing populated (NULLs for all rows).
Your comments are most welcome.
Kind Regards,
Gary.

The filtering of the calendar can be done directly on the logical layer.
for the logical dimension "Dim - Date Fiscal Calendar", Logical Table Source "Dim_W_MCAL_PERIOD_D_Fiscal_Period"
set the content as :
"Oracle Data Warehouse".Catalog.dbo.Dim_W_MCAL_PERIOD_D_Fiscal_Period.MCAL_CAL_WID = VALUEOF("MY_MCAL_WID")
and setup the repository variable MY_MCAL_WID to match with your calendar wid.
If your calendar depends on any context then you can use session variable instead of repository variable

HELP -- [nQSError: 15014] No subject area is available in the repository St

I installed BI server in Linux box.
I installed the BI administrator tool on my window box and created a new repository(iasdb.rpd). I created a presentation layer name MOVA_CLIENT. I configure the connection pool to use OCI and specified ther DSN same as my tnsname entry. ( I am able to run the rowcount from Bi admin tool ).
I ftped the this new file to Linux server and place under OracleBI/server/Repository
I change update the NQSConfig.ini file with below entry
Star = iasdb.rpd, DEFAULT;
Now when I try to start the BI server , I am getting the below msgs
[36007] Loading repository /u00/app/oracle/OracleBI/server/Repository/iasdb.rpd.
2007-10-12 23:27:54
[14053] Subject area MOVA_CLIENT is unavailable.
2007-10-12 23:27:54
[nQSError: 15014] No subject area is available in the repository Star. Remove the repository from NQSConfig.ini and restart the server.
Please advise me where I am getting things wrong.

Hi Stefen, I have below files in the Repository directory. Am I missing any file/directory ?
[oracle@dev-as-vm-01 Repository]$ ls -ltr
-rwxr-x--- 1 oracle users 99904 Oct 12 15:56 paint.rpd.orig
-rwx------ 1 oracle users 134019 Oct 12 16:07 paint.rpd.Sav
-rwxr----- 1 oracle users 136819 Oct 12 16:13 paint.rpd
-rw------- 1 oracle users 168588 Oct 12 21:43 paint.rpd.Log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle users 485606 Oct 12 22:12 iasdb.rpd
-rw------- 1 oracle users 1058 Oct 12 23:27 iasdb.rpd.Log

Issue in subject area of Answers in OBIEE

HI,
i installed OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1v recently,while I am trying to create some Adhoc reports with default repositary "SAMPLESALES",faced an issue that no presentation catalogue is appearing under subject area, so that i can't create reports.
I configured the samplesales repositary in NQS config file as well as Instance config file., but still facing the error.
please help me.
Regards

Are you sure the name of the RPD in the config file is exactly the same (incl. CaMelCASE)?
Regards
John
http://obiee101.blogspot.com

11g-Multiple subject area feature.

Hi,
I am new to 11g,In 11g we have anew feature like creating Analysis from multiple subject areas so,
1)Is there any limitation on this Multiple subject areas usage.
2)any configuration or settings needs to be done in RPD for querying related subject areas..
3)what is the limit of using this subject areas.. maximum from How many SA we can build a report..
any other limitation for this feature...
please share your thoughts.

Hi ,
Its possible to add/remove subject areas , while creating a analysis , in OBIEE 11.1.1.6 .
refer this link :
http://www.rittmanmead.com/2012/03/obiee-11g-security-week-subject-area-catalog-and-functional-area-security-2/
but , I'm not sure whether same is possible in 11.1.1.5 .
Thanks .

Subject area description as popup in answers?

When we write description for subject area in repository this description appears as a text below subject area name in Answers.
Is there any configuration setting to make it display as a popup (appearing on mouse over)?
Thanks.

I don't think you can do this. I tried using HTML code on the SA description but it gets encoded by OBIEE so that it displays as plain text, not HTML code. I suggest you raise an enhancement request with Oracle.

How to see SA subject area and access SA_TABLE in database

Helo,
Iam using OBI EE 10.1.3.3.1.
I need to send the ibots alerts to the people who are not the OBI users.
So, I read in the post to make some configurations changes in SA subject area.
But, I am not able to see this in Answers. Also, how to access the tables for this?
thx,
parag

I don't know.. maybe it is deleted from the repository?
On this page:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12096_01/books/admintool/admintool_RepositoryFinal23.html
you can read:
NOTE: For Oracle BI Application customers, the SA System subject area is preconfigured in their Oracle BI repository.
Regards,
Stijn

Need help in assembling DAC 'Subject Area':

Hi There,
When I assemble a subject area:
I got a pop up window for 'Configuration Tags' with the following message:
The tasks belonging to the following Configuration Tags may be applicable
to assembling your subject area. If you want to associate these tags,
press Cancel, otherwise press Continue.
For this message, should I say 'Continue' or 'Cancel'.
Also what happens when I say 'Continue' or 'Cancel'.?
Thanks,
Raghu

Hi, DAC Configuration Tag controls the inclusion of tasks in subject areas. Each Configuration Tag will have tasks associated for specific biapps requirement.
By Default BIAPPS OOTB Subject Areas will have Configurations tags associated and few will be in inactive state.
(Click on any DAC SubJect Area --> ConfigurationTag (in the bottom pane) to verify which Configuration Tags are associated )
1. This message is just a reminder that DAC tells you, there are few other tasks that can be included in the Subject Area and here are the Configuration Tags associated to these tasks. In case if you forget adding them hit 'Cancel', add it and then Assemble again
2. In all other cases if you don't need to add these Configuration Tags you can hit Continue to complete assembling the Subject Area
It all depends on the requirement and which tasks you need to include or exclude from specific Subject Area.
Before Assembling verify if you need to include any Configuration Tag , activate it and then hit Assemble.
Eg: In BIApps Configuration topic : To Reload the Time Dimension Tables After the Data Warehouse Is Loaded
1. To extend the Day Dimension, you should include configuration tag named *'Extend Day Dimension Multiple Calendar Support.'* which adds additional specific tasks . Then assemble the Subject Area
Hope This helps !

"AP Transactions" Subject Area hitting incorrect Fact table

Hi Gurus,
Requirement/Background:
We have done some customization to "Financials - AP Transactions" subject area i.e. adding 3 new W_DAY_D aliases in physical layer and few custom columns in W_AP_XACT_F.
I did not create any new BMM tables for new W_DAY_D aliases, just added these new tables in LTS (Fact_W_AP_XACT_F) under "Dim - AP Transaction Details", and put all the custom columns under same Logical table i.e."Dim - AP Transaction Details" mapping correctly to W_DAY_D and W_AP_XACT_F.
Problem Statement :
Whenever I add "Purchase Invoice Number" to the query, it hits incorrect fact table i.e.W_AP_AGING_INVOICE_A and gives incorrect results.
Expected Query : (if I select GL Account Number, Purchase Invoice Number & AP Amount)
select sum(T333486.AP_LOC_AMT * -1) as c1,
               sum(T333486.AP_DOC_AMT * T333486.GLOBAL1_EXCHANGE_RATE * -1) as c2,
               T333486.PURCH_INVOICE_NUM as c3,
               T334337.GL_ACCOUNT_NUM as c4
          from
               W_AP_XACT_F T333486 /* Fact_W_AP_XACT_F */ ,
               W_GL_ACCOUNT_D T334337 /* Dim_W_GL_ACCOUNT_D */
          where ( T333486.GL_ACCOUNT_WID = T334337.ROW_WID and T333486.PURCH_INVOICE_NUM = '1161/13 CH' and T333486.DELETE_FLG = 'N' )
          group by T333486.PURCH_INVOICE_NUM, T334337.GL_ACCOUNT_NUM
Current Query it is firing :
select sum(T333486.AP_LOC_AMT * -1) as c1,
               sum(T333486.AP_DOC_AMT * T333486.GLOBAL1_EXCHANGE_RATE * -1) as c2,
               T348360.PURCH_INVOICE_NUM as c3,
               T334337.GL_ACCOUNT_NUM as c4
          from
               W_AP_XACT_F T333486 /* Fact_W_AP_XACT_F */ ,
               W_GL_ACCOUNT_D T334337 /* Dim_W_GL_ACCOUNT_D */ ,
               W_SUPPLIER_ACCOUNT_D T336997 /* Dim_W_SUPPLIER_ACCOUNT_D */ ,
               W_STATUS_D T338711 /* Dim_W_STATUS_D_Generic */ ,
               W_XACT_TYPE_D T338741 /* Dim_W_XACT_TYPE_D_Financials */ ,
               W_DAY_D T344857 /* Dim_W_DAY_D_Payment_Due_Date */ ,
               W_DAY_D T348434 /* Dim_W_DAY_D_Purchase Invoice Date */ ,
               W_DAY_D T351452 /* Dim_W_DAY_D_Purchase Invoice Cleared_Date */ ,
               W_PAYMENT_METHOD_D T394960 /* Dim_W_PAYMENT_METHOD_D_AP */ ,
               W_XACT_SOURCE_D T394984 /* Dim_W_XACT_SOURCE_D */ ,
               W_AP_AGING_INVOICE_A T348360 /* Fact_W_AP_AGING_INVOICE_A */
          where ( T333486.GL_ACCOUNT_WID = T334337.ROW_WID and T333486.SPLR_ACCT_WID = T336997.ROW_WID and T333486.DOC_TYPE_WID = T338741.ROW_WID and T333486.DOC_STATUS_WID = T338711.ROW_WID and T333486.INVOICED_ON_DT_WID = T348434.ROW_WID and T333486.PAY_METHOD_WID = T394960.ROW_WID and T333486.CLEARED_ON_DT_WID = T351452.ROW_WID and T333486.PAYMENT_DUE_DT_WID = T344857.ROW_WID and T333486.SOURCE_WID = T394984.ROW_WID and T333486.DELETE_FLG = 'N' and T344857.ROW_WID = T348360.PAYMENT_DUE_DT_WID and T336997.ROW_WID = T348360.SPLR_ACCT_WID and T338711.ROW_WID = T348360.DOC_STATUS_WID and T338741.ROW_WID = T348360.DOC_TYPE_WID and T348360.PURCH_INVOICE_NUM = '1161/13 CH' and T348360.PAYMENT_METHOD_WID = T394960.ROW_WID and T348360.INVOICED_ON_DT_WID = T348434.ROW_WID and T348360.CLEARED_ON_DT_WID = T351452.ROW_WID and T348360.SOURCE_WID = T394984.ROW_WID )
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"Purchase Invoice Number" is out-of-box present under "Dim - AP Transaction Details" and it is mapped to 4 tables including W_AP_XACT_F & W_AP_AGING_INVOICE_A. It is also set at Detail level in AP Transactions dimension hierarchy.
Additionally, implicit fact column has also been set. So why it is not hitting W_AP_XACT_F ???
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Ravi Desai

You said that the Logical table Date- dim has 2 LTS (Date_dim, Event_closed_date_dim ).
How you defined this, is it something like
1) Drag table Date_dim
2) Select the column Row_wid of Event_closed_date_dim from Physical layer and drop on Row_wid of Logical tabl Date_dim
With this logical column Row_wid 2 sources. In this case you see 1 logical join between logical table day(with 2 LTS) and fact
If you followed this way should not have any issues.
Joins like:
PL-: Date_dim--->Fact<-- Event_closed_date_dim
BMM: Date->Fact
If you have any doubts, just create a new rpd with these table objects
Check your configuration.

Enable Project Analytics Integration with Financial Subject Areas

Guys, i know there are a few of us out there that are or have done PA implementation with Oracle Finance.
I went through the docs and found how to steps for "You can enable Oracle Financial Analytics for EBS to use dimension tables in Oracle Project Analytics."
Please see below the link to the docs
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14223_01/bia.796/e14216/anyimp_configfinance.htm#CHDCCCAJ
However, i did not see this option for the "Financials - General Ledger" subject area. I end up manually adding the option "Enable Project Dimensions" by click on the <add / remove> option for the Configuration Tags tab under the "Financials - General Ledger" subject area.
Can someone confirm that they faced the same "issue"? What action did they take? I have in the past run the loads without making this selection for all the Oracle Finance and it seemed to still bring the link between the Oracle Finance and PA.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Regards,

General ledger facts have no link to project dimensions, i.e there is no analysis of GL data from project dimensions. Thats why you dont see it in the GL subject area. If you added it yourself and turned it on, it probably has no effect.

Need Help to develop a Funnel Graph Report using Multiple Subject Areas.

Hi Everybody,
Did any body developed Funnel based graph report in Answers..
Scenario: I need to develop a report which is based on 4 Facts(4 Subject Areas) Report is sectioned with 4 block one blovk with one Fact Metrics like this four blocks.
If any idea on such scenario it will be huge benefit for me.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks,
Govardhana

Yes, i can see datatype and number of columns is same in both queries.
i have challanges to copy message but Error message seems to general. Error says (near to FROM) and I checked there are three FROM in query and all seems to be ok
Query is something like as below
select SA1.col1 saw_0,
SA1.col2 saw_1,
SA2.col1 saw_2,
SA2.col2 saw_3,
FROM
(select col1 saw_0, col2 saw_1 from "subject area1") SA1
FULL OUTER JOIN
(select col1 saw_0, col2 saw_1 from "subject area2") SA2
ON SA1.col1 = SA2.col1
I can't see any issue in the query...please comment.

Report using colmns from 2 subject areas

Hi,
I have to buld a report as below
Product      ForecastRevenue(A)       ActualRevenue(B)       Variance
A                200                                      100                           100
B                200                                      200                            0
ForecastRevenue(A) comes from 1 subject area and ActualRevenue(B) comes from another subject area. Using these 2 columns from different subject area I have to create
a calculated column variance which is the difference of two columns. How can I create this report. Any idea?

can be done in two ways;
1. Using Union report
Create a union report with two request.
Request1 -          product               Forecast_Revenue     Actual Revenue
Col expression     "product.name"     "Fact.Revenue"         0
Request2 -          product               Forecast_Revenue     Actual Revenue
Col expression      "product.name"    0                             "Fact.ACTUAL_Revenue"
In the result tab create a pivote report and set the aggregation of fact column as sum.
Add a calculated column and write the expression as
Farecast_Revenue - Actual_Revenue
You are done.
2. Use the advance tab in the report and write a custom SQL to join these two subject area.
eg.
select product, A.forecast_reveneu, B.Forecast_Reveneue, A.forecast_reveneu-B.Forecast_Reveneue
from SA1 A join SA2 B on (A.product=B.PRODUCT)
You are done.
Best of Luck,
Kashi

How to find total report based on a particular subject area in OBIEE?

Hi Everyone,
I am new to OBIEE. I want to find out all the reports based on a particular subject area as there are many subject areas and lot of reports in OBIEE.
Please help me out in this issue.
Thanks
Regards
Sohail Dayer

Sohail,
Check out the catalogue manager reports :
http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/oracle-bi-ee-catalog-reports/
If you want this kind of thing automated, I personally am very fond of the ODI -> OBIEE Data lineage solution as provided in Oracle By Example tutorials :
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/fusion_middleware/odi/OBI-ODI_Lineage/OBI-ODI_Lineage.htm

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