Creation of reports in OBIEE

Hi,
I am new to BI.
I installed OBIEE in linux.
Can anybody please explain the brief procedure of crating tables and reports in bi dashboard.
It's urgent.
Thanks & Regards,
Kavitha

Hi,
I installed admin tool of bi for windows and trying to create rpd file for linux there.
I created a datasource by following the doc,
http://oraclebi.soundvoid.net/2008/10/open-a-linux-hosted-repository-in-online-mode/
but, it displayed only sample sales in the database list at the end of datasource creation.
Actually, in my linux server, I have created a database named test, I want to create an rpd to connect to that database
but, when I selected new from admin tool, it is asking to provide a name for rpd file and not asking any connectivity details, just showing three layers, in physical window, I selected new database, it asked for database nanme and datasource definition. I just gave name as test and definition as Oracle 10g XE, after that copied
this rpd to repository folder in linu bi, changed NQSConfig.INI and instanceconfig.xml fiels and restared bi server, but didn't find the database in the bi answers window. I think the procedure to create rpd file is wrong.
Can you please provide the steps how to create an rpd file to use in linux.
Thanks,
Kavitha

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