Is there a way to hide (mask) public connections from displaying?

Question

Would like to hide (mask) public connections from being displayed on Disco Connection page, but still display private connections
for our Disco Plus/Viewer users. Reason is...We have SSO enabled and publish Discoverer portlets (Single Worksheet, List of Worksheets) on our
enterprise portal pages. The List of Worksheets portlet requires us to use a public connection to publish the portlet in order to be displayed
via viewer by other SSO users otherwise, the other SSO users would be prompted for a password whenever we use a private connection to
publish portlet. Same problem for the "Analyze" link on the portlet. There is a doc to hide both private/public connection, but we are looking to
hide only the public connection. Anyone run across this situation when using Disco Portlets?

Answer 1

**Recommend that you make sure you have the Connection key for each of your Public connections before you hide them. Open Discoverer Plus or viewer and click the "Show" then write down connection key. In the portal if you wanted to create direct connects create URL http://host/port/discoverer/plus?cn=Enter Connection Key
the ViewerConnection.uix can be found in
Oracle_Home\j2ee\OC4J_BI_Forms\applications\discoverer\discoverer
You can edit the file with Notepad or any other text editor.
- In order to remove the "Choose Connection" table which include public connection already defined you have to find
<template:commonPageLayout preferencesRendered="false" quickLinksShown="true" helpID="disco_vw_connect" title="${uix.data.nls}">
<contents>
and start comment everything starting with the line
<!-- (start comment)
<rowLayout width="90%">
<contents>
<header rendered="${uix.eventResult.connectionMgmtEnabled}" text="${uix.data.nls}">
up to
</header>
</contents>
</rowLayout>
--> (end comment)
<rowLayout width="100%">
<contents>
<header text="${uix.data.nls}" shortText="${uix.data.nls}">
<contents>
<form name="connectionForm" method="POST">
If you want to do more customization in order to make the page look better
- if you want to remove "Connect to OracleBI Discoverer"
find <template:commonPageLayout preferencesRendered="false" quickLinksShown="true" helpID="disco_vw_connect" title="${uix.data.nls}">
<contents>
and comment
<!--
<html:noscript>
<styledText styleClass="OraInstructionText" text="${uix.data.nls}" />
</html:noscript>
<styledText rendered="${uix.eventResult.connectionMgmtEnabled}" styleClass="oraInstructionText" text="${uix.data.nls}"/>
<styledText rendered="${ui:cond(uix.eventResult.connectionMgmtEnabled eq 'true', 'false', 'true')}" styleClass="oraInstructionText" text="${uix.data.nls}"/>
-->
- if you want to remove "Connect Directly" togehter with "Enter your connection details below to connect directly to OracleBI Discoverer.
* Indicates required field. "
change
<header text="${uix.data.nls}" shortText="${uix.data.nls}">
into
<header> <!--text="${uix.data.nls}" shortText="${uix.data.nls}"> -->
and comment
<!--
<styledText styleClass="OraInstructionText" text="${uix.data.nls}"/>
<rowLayout>
<contents>
<spacer width="1" height="8" />
</contents>
</rowLayout>
<rowLayout>
<contents>
<messageStyledText required="yes" text="" />
<spacer width="5" height="1" />
<styledText styleClass="OraInstructionText" text="${uix.data.nls}" />
</contents>
</rowLayout>
-->
- if you want to move all the fields like " Connect To, User Name, Password etc in the center of the page
find
<tableLayout id="connTableLayout" summary="">
and change to
<tableLayout width="150%" id="connTableLayout" summary="">
- if you want to remove the EUL fields which is not required if you have only one EUL
find and comment
<!--
<rowLayout rendered="${uix.eventResult.eulRendered}">
<contents>
<spacer width="1" height="4" />
</contents>
</rowLayout>
<rowLayout rendered="${uix.eventResult.eulRendered}">
<contents>
<cellFormat hAlign="right">
<contents>
<rowLayout>
<contents>
<messageStyledText required="no" text="" />
<spacer width="5" height="1" />
<styledText styleClass="OraInstructionText" text="${uix.data.nls}" labeledNodeId="${uix.data.constants.EUL_PARAM}"/>
</contents>
</rowLayout>
</contents>
</cellFormat>
<cellFormat>
<contents>
<spacer width="5" height="1" />
</contents>
</cellFormat>
<cellFormat>
<contents>
<textInput name="${uix.data.constants.EUL_PARAM}" columns="40" text="${uix.eventResult.eulName}" id="${uix.data.constants.EUL_PARAM}" shortDesc="${uix.data.nls}" >
<enterClientAction>
<fireAction event="connect" formSubmitted="true" />
</enterClientAction>
</textInput>
</contents>
</cellFormat>
</contents>
</rowLayout>
After you make the changes and save the file you have to restart the OC4J_BI_Forms component of the AS.