Discoverer Plus 10g

I wander to add an numeric field (e.g. Buying price) from the database to the worksheet. But I found that the field only entitled for Count, Max, Min only. Same data type for another field (e.g. Selling Price), it have Sum, Count, Max, Min, AVG & Details also. Thank you.

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Joining tables in Oracle BI Discoverer Plus 10g

My company just implemented Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus 10g and I'm a little confused. It looks like this new version of Discoverer was created with the idea of "simplifying" things for the end user. But it seems to be lacking crucial features that our power users need. Like writing their own SQL statements.
Does anyone have any suggestions? What version of Discoverer should our advanced user's use? Can you suggest another tool? We could always give them SQL Developer, but this seems like overkill. It seems like Oracle has ignored a certain market segment. That is the power user segment. There are many users who can write SQL but do not work in IT. SQL Developer is too much but Discoverer is not enough.

Hi
These days, Oracle is much more accepting of carrying on and even improving legacy products, so long as there’s customers willing to pay support fees.
You just have to see what happened to JD Edwards. When Peoplesoft purchased this several years ago they hardly made any improvements to it and it was being run into the ground. When Oracle purchased Peoplesoft they acquired JD Edwards too but rather than letting the slide continue they have actually have been actively improving it. So much so, that they have issued a major upgrade, thus prolonging the life of JD Edwards for years to come. Oracle could easily have let it slip into obscurity and told the JD Edwards' customers that they needed to convert to E-Business Suite, but they didn't. This is despite the fact that JD Edwards runs on one of their prime competitor's platforms, the IBM AS400!
So you see, Oracle are not going to cut off their nose to spite their face. I think Oracle has being very professional with regards to the products that it has acquired. They don't seem to be acquiring them with the intention of dropping them. They seem to be genuinely interested in market share and keeping customers happy. At least that's the way recent acquisitions have played out - like Siebel Analytics - aka OBI Enterprise Edition.
Best wishes
Michael

Menu "Export" in Oracle Discoverer Plus 10g

Hi..
Is there anyone knows how to hide "Export" menu in OracleBI Discoverer Plus 10g ?
Any help will be appreciated.
Regards,
Handoko

I have a T420 Lenovo with dual video card configuration is causing the Discoverer Plus 10g views to not refresh correctly.
I was able to find a solution to this issue. It requires the following changes in the system BIOS.
• In BIOS under Config -> Display ->Change the Graphics Devices to Discrete
• In BIOS under Config -> Display ->OS Detection for NVIDIA Optimus -> Changed to Disabled
Now system will only use the Nvidia Card versus the dual card configuration (Nvidia + Intel HD Graphics)
Discoverer Plus works correctly.
Hope this helps.
Yonas Mekuria

Discoverer Plus 10g Title & Table Viewing Size

Is there a way to increase the screen resolution of the title and table area in Discoverer Plus 10g? The font size says 10pt, but on the screen it looks more like 4pt. I couldn't find any settings in Plus to change it. Thanks, Amy.

Cause
By default in Discoverer Plus 10.1.2 fonts are rendered smaller in Java
than in other Windows applications.
Already saved workbooks will not have any change in font and formats even if
your default fonts are changed unless these workbooks are explicitly opened and
modified for using new fonts. The cause for this behavior is that when
workbooks are saved, font information is also along with it. This is very lengthy approach if you have over 1,000 upgraded workbooks.
Solution
To implement the solution, for existing/upgraded workbooks please execute the following steps:
Set AdjustPlusFontSize = "True" in pref.txt file.
This setting will make Discoverer Plus to display the font size correctly. It specifies whether Discoverer Plus Relational adjusts the font size to correct a discrepancy in the Java virtual machine, resulting in a smaller font size than other Windows applications.
true = adjust font sizes
false = do not adjust font sizes
1.Navigate to <Discoverer Home>/discoverer/util directory.
2.Edit pref.txt file and modify the setting as
AdjustPlusFontSize = "true"
under [Application] section
3.Run the script applypreferences.sh
https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/f?p=130:14:3586351170204990307::::p14_database_id,p14_docid,p14_show_header,p14_show_help,p14_black_frame,p14_font:NOT,338117.1,1,1,1,helvetica
Thanks, Jim Halverson

Emailing from discoverer plus 10g

Hi,
Please help on the ff question posed to me from our client who just had Discoverer Plus 10g implemented at their sites.
1. The old vs 3.1 desktop had the ability to send a report in an e-mail attachment to many recipients as a .dis file. This feature is no longer available. Is there plans to include this in future releases?
2. The old 3.1 vs was also able to save and open reports from the file system. This is no longer available on plus 10g. Is there plans to also include this feature in newer releases of plus.
pls advise.
thanks
saliha

Hi Saliha
The new 10g Desktop still has the email feature, as does the 10g Viewer tool. I doubt very much that Oracle will add emailing to Plus because Viewer is where the users are supposed to run their reports. Plus is a developer tool so I think you will be out of luck. Many folks that I go to initially say they don't like Viewer but that is because they have no idea what it can do. After I have given training every company so far tell me they will be using Viewer for end users (viewers), with Plus being reserved only for the report writers.
As for saving to the file system from Plus, as you say this does not exist. Oracle do have this under consideration. I thought it was scheduled for the next release but I don't think it made it. We'll just have to wait and see. Like you, I would like to see it.
Sorry about this, please don't shoot the messenger :-)
Best wishes
Michael

User not able to login to Discoverer Plus 10g with Java 1.8 and Java1.6

Hi,
The user is using Windows machine and trying to login to Discoverer Plus 10g. He recently upgraded to Java 1.8 and was not able to login.
We informed the user that Discoverer 10g is not compatible with java version above 1.6. The user removed the java 1.8 and installed 1.6 again.
Still he is facing issue.
The error he gets is:
Unable to connect to the Discoverer Server: null
Please contact your Oracle Application Server administrator
Please suggest.
1. Is there also a way to make it work with java 1,8 version as the user need to use it for the Oracle HRMS.?
Thanks
Chhavi

Hi,
The user is using Windows machine and trying to login to Discoverer Plus 10g. He recently upgraded to Java 1.8 and was not able to login.
We informed the user that Discoverer 10g is not compatible with java version above 1.6. The user removed the java 1.8 and installed 1.6 again.
Still he is facing issue.
The error he gets is:
Unable to connect to the Discoverer Server: null
Please contact your Oracle Application Server administrator
Please suggest.
1. Is there also a way to make it work with java 1,8 version as the user need to use it for the Oracle HRMS.?
Thanks
Chhavi

Strange Problems with Discoverer Plus 10g

Hello All -
I'm working an exercise to bring an application online which uses Discoverer Plus 10g as its client. This application is located in an area that I don't have access to, so the symptoms I'll describe have been reported to me by users.
1) When users log into Discoverer Plus and it launches, it does so with the iconic menu buttons (located below the pull-down menus) disabled and grayed-out. The users are forced to do all operations using the pull-down menus. This is a problem that is consistent across different PCs.
2) When users do File....Save As.... the "Save Workbook to Database" window opens and the user is unable to modify the filename in the "New name" text field. If the user toggles the "View:" setting at the top of the window, they can then change the filename. This problem has only been reported by 2 users, but it's happening for them consistently.
3) When a user creates a new report using File....New... the Workbook Wizard opens and all is normal until the "Workbook Wizard - Step 2 of 5: Select Items" page appears. On the items tab, the user activates the pull-down list to select the business area they want to use, and the business area name disappears when the users mouses-over it. So the user must click on the blank business area name to continue. This is a problem that is consistent across different PCs.
A number of the users' PCs have two Java versions installed on them like this:
Platform     Product
1.4     1.5.0_14
1.5     1.4.2_16
I had them make sure that 1.5.0_14 is the only one enabled, but that did not remedy any of the above problems.
At this point I don't know what to try next.
All help is greatly appreciated.
Patrick

Try the 1.4.2_06 java version
I suggest you remove other java version and stay with just one.
I do not remember but from some point the java version will use the higher there is and java 1.5 from my experience
is not working with the discoverer so well.
Tamir

Export issue in discoverer plus (10G)

I'm unable to export the report result into either excel or text file from discoverer plus.
Error message is "Operation Failed".
Please help me in resolving this in discoverer 10G.

Hi, I happened to come across Murali's thread here while searching for something else.
If anyone is interested, the resolution was MetaLink Note 401600.1 (Exporting To Xls/Cvs/Txt Formats With Discoverer 10g (10.1.2) Plus or Viewer Fails With 'Error Operation Failed').
It involved deleting dc* files from the temporary directory we have identified for exporting temporary files. The temporary directory was full.
Once the dc* files were deleted, it resolved the export to XLS from Discoverer Plus issue for us this time.

Connection to Discoverer Plus (10g) lost when exporting workbook to Excel

I have a user who was exporting a workbook to Excel and it showed that the export failed. When she closed that box, she got a message that her Connection to Discoverer was lost.
Anyone experienced this one? Any ideas why this is happening?
Cindy

Hi Kevin
It will do this if you change the parameters away from the default and you have told Discoverer to remember parameter settings. This is controlled by an entry called SaveLastUsedParamValue in pref.txt on the server.
If this is the cause then its not a bug. All Discoverer thinks is that you have changed something. Even switching an item in Page Items could trigger this.
If you have users who only need to View reports why not use Viewer? You can turn off saving altogether there if you so wish.
Best wishes
Michael

Discoverer Plus for OLAP

Hi....
Our company had installed Oracle Application Server 10g and using Discoverer Plus 10g (10.1.2.48.18) and also creating the EUL as the data storage/mapping for our workbooks/reports.
Our company has a plan to use Discoverer Plus for OLAP and already installed the discoverer catalog.
How to create a connection using option "Connect To" OracleBI Discoverer for OLAP ?
What is the diffrence between Discoverer Catalog and Analytic Workspace?
What tools that we must use to create data for OLAP (to create some dimensions, measures etc)?
Any Help will be appreciated
Thanks,
Handoko

Hi Handoko,
You can establish a connection from Discoverer Plus for OLAP, by specifying the database connect information in the form of HOST:PORT:SID (e.g MyServer.com:1521:orcl10g).
The Discoverer OLAP catalog is used to store end-user reports and is installed and maintained using Application Server Control console. It allows you to install the catalog and authorize users to store reports in the catalog. The Analytic Workspace Manager is used to define your multi-dimensional model and load the data from source tables.
Mark Rittman provides some indepth documentation, have a look at the link below :
http://www.rittman.net/2004/11/29/understanding-the-role-of-the-olap-catalog/
& Oracle’s info:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman_olap.html
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/olap/viewlet/awm10g_viewlet_swf.html
Hope this helps.
Lance

Discoverer Plus - Problem with Page Orientation when printing pdf's

Hi,
When printing pdf's in Disco Plus I have a problem:
My workbooks are a mixture of landscape and portrait pages.
I am printing the entire workbook and then using cutepdf to produce a pdf.
If I print to paper I get the correct landscape/portrait settings.
If I print to pdf then landscape pages appear vertically when I view on screen so that the text is running from bottom to top of the page.
So it is picking up th portrait/landscape settings from the individual worksheets but cutepdf has not realised that the pages are landscape so they appear on the screen vertically.
This was not a problem on discoverer desktop so I am confident that this is not a problem with cutepdf.
Any thoughts?
Justin

Thanks 2257648922,
Version details are as follows:
OracleBI Discoverer 10g (10.1.2.3)
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus 10g (10.1.2.55.26)
Discoverer Model - 10.1.2.55.26
Discoverer Server - 10.1.2.55.26
End User Layer - 5.1.1.0.0.0
End User Layer Library - 10.1.2.55.26
Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
Copyright © 1999, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
So I assume that means my version doesn't have the bug you mention.
Any other thoughts would be appreciated.
Justin

Views not available in Discoverer Plus

Hi Gurus,
I have created some views using Oracle 10 g Disco Admin v 9.0.4 and I am able to access them from Disco Desktop v 9.0.4
However, when I log in to Discoverer Plus, those views are not available. I am logging with the same user id that I am using for desktop. Some of the users who are on the previous version of Disco Desktop are facing the same problem. First I thought it might be a version mismatch issue, but now it is happening with Disco Plus too.
Here is the Disco Plus version details:
Oracle Application Server Discoverer 10g (9.0.4.00.00)
Oracle Application Server Discoverer Plus 10g (9.0.4.45.02)
Discoverer Model - 9.0.4.45.02
Discoverer Server - 9.0.4.45.02
End User Layer - 5.0.2.0.0.0
End User Layer Library - 9.0.4.45.02
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.6.0 - 64bit Production
Copyright © 1999, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Jagan,
Thanks for your reply and I have just transported the Role after the views have been assigned to it.
I'll update you once the Role is moved to Quality.
Regards
BN

Discoverer Plus on MOzilla 1.4

I have successfully used Discoverer Plus 10g on Mozilla 1.2 with the JRE 1.4.0 plugin.
I am now trying to use Discoverer Plus 10g on Mozilla 1.4. This version of Mozilla only supports JRE Plugins comiled under gcc322. This is onnly available for JRE 1.4.2.
The Discoverer Plus 10g applet does not seem to work with this plugin. Does anyone know of a workaround ?

Greetings:
Can you please point me in the right direction as far as getting Discoverer 4i to work with Firefox (both Windows and Linux)? I have found only vague references so far, have downloaded and installed JRE, but am having issues.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Discoverer Plus : Printing title issue

Hi,
Page title doesn't print all the time. Sometimes it's printed and sometimes it's not without changing anything in the report!
Do you know why?
OracleBI Discoverer 10g (10.1.2.2)
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus 10g (10.1.2.54.25)
Discoverer Model - 10.1.2.54.25
Discoverer Server - 10.1.2.54.25
Couche EUL - 5.1.1.0.0.0
Bibliothèque EUL - 10.1.2.54.25
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bi
Copyright © 1999, 2005, Oracle. Tous droits réservés.

Are you talking about printing out of Discoverer Plus? I am thinking you are, because you did not mention Discoverer Viewer nor Discoverer Desktop versions. I have noticed the same thing happening myself. Have not bothered to report this to support, since most of the time the workbooks will be executed in Discoverer Viewer, where the printing seems to be okay. You may want to check your print setup to make sure you have specified to print the heading, and if you want on every page or just on the first page, just in case you have not considered this possibility. Hope this helps a bit.
John Dickey

Discoverer Plus not wrapping column headers on print

OracleBI Discoverer 10g (10.1.2.3)
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus 10g (10.1.2.55.26)
I'm having issues with a new workbok I created and can't quite figure out how to fix it. I have columns with the Format Heading\Wrap words in cell set on. The columns wrap fine and display as expected in the Discoverer Plus workbook window, but they don't wrap on printing to pdf or a physical printer. They display in the upper left of the column and run to the right until they get cut-off by the next column on the right.
For instance:
Preprocessing
Lead Time
shows as
Preprocessing Lea|<next column>
-Tracy

Well, I hate to say it, but you may have run across a bug in your version of Discoverer Plus. I am on 10.1.2.54.25 and the word wrap works just fine when printing a worksheet out of Discoverer Plus in that version. I even retested it just now just to verify, and it printed just fine, and the way you would want it to print. So my suggestion is that you log a service request for this issue with support and see what they say. Good luck.
John Dickey

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