Rename Subject Area

What are the steps to rename a subject area in the Presentation Layer of the Admin Tool, so that any Answers reports pulling data from that subject area still work correctly?
I have tried to rename my subject area, and then I went to my report and replaced all references to the old Subject Area with the new one in the Advanced tab.
I am still missing the data formatting I set in the report though (i.e. number -> Currency)
Is there any way to get the formatting back?

I'm afraid not. Once you rename the Presentation Folder - it's not the same for Presentation Services purposes. What you can try to do is use the old name in the Aliases tab - but this might or might not work and is not generally recommended.
GL

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Problem after renaming Subject Area

Hi,
After renaming de Subject Area in Administration I´m not able to edit the reports built with this Subject Area. A message shows up in the columns pane telling something like "either you don´t have permission to use the subject area XXX within answers or the subject area does not exist".
What´s going on?
I really need help.

Check the "Aliases" tab of the presentation catalog (Subject Area) that you renamed. It should contain the previous name of your presentation catalog. If that doesn't exist, your reports should get the errors you have mentioned.

Renaming of subject area

Hi All,
In RPD, I renamed my subject area and in Answers, I changed the subject area name for the reports using the 'Advanced Tab'. But, I get the following error:
"Either you do not have permission to use the subject area "XXX" within Answers, or the subject area does not exist."
The new subject area name has 85 characters. If I specify a name that is less than 80 characters, then I do not get the error when I modify the XML in the 'Advanced' Tab.
Is there any constraint on the length of the subject area name specified in RPD or is it due to some other issue?
Thanks,
Radhika

This might be something new for all of us in this forum where you have Subject Area with more than 80 characters.Please raise the SR with Oracle to see if they have some constraints in naming the subject area.
Thanks

Subject Area diable

Hi
I login administrator account only but i am not able to see subject area for all the report.(it shows Either you do not have permission to use the subject area CERSTA within Answers, or the subject area does not exist.)
How to give privileges for that.I never implemented any RPD level security.
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Gram

Hi,
If you have not implemented any Subject area level security in the RPD,
the problem might that the subject area has been renamed. Kindly log on to the RPD in online mode and check if the subject area is proper.
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Handling Reports if subject area is changed

Hi,
We are using OBIEE 11g. We developed around 30 reports and around 50 prompts but problem is the Subject Area we used is now INVAID because its Re-Named.
My Question is what is the fastest way to link the reports and prompts to new subject area assuming all the table and column names will be same.
Thanks

You can create aliases for the subject area to reflect the same name used prior to the change. In order to do that follow the steps below:
1) Open the RPD.
2) Double click on the subject area which was renamed and navigate to the aliases tab.
3) Click on New Icon and type the subject area name prior to the change.
Thanks,
-Amith.

Duplicate Subject areas

Hi All,
We are facing an issue where we are given only 1 OBIEE instance for testing.
I need to connect to DEV and a test instance.
I am thinking of an option where I will duplicate the subject area and create a new subject area.
For example: - My current subject are is 'Shipment Reports".
I will rename this as 'Shiment Report DEV" and duplicate this to create new subject area ( along with Business Model and Physical layer both) "Shipment Report UAT"
Now I will point 'Shiment Report DEV" to DEV database and "Shipment Report UAT" to UAT databse.
Is this possible and feasible?
Any other shortcut idea is also welcome. I tried merging of RPD but instead of creating 2 subject area, admin is retaining only 1 subject area.
I want to duplicate existing subject area.
Appreciate the input

take a copy of existing rpd calling as A.rpd and the base one is as base.rpd
in A.rpd rename Physical layer then BMM layer and then Presentation layer
and do the connection settings to point Test envi.
save it and keep open the A.rpd
Using different Admintool open base.rpd
Copy Physical layer content from A.rpd using CTRL+C
in base.rpd click on physical layer and paste it, then save with no consistence
Do the same for each BMM and Presentation
at the end save + consistence
host it, mark this as correct and have fun

Swithcing Subject Areas

Hi Experts,
I want to use all the reports created for one Subject Area A for another Subject Area B as I am removing Subject Area A from repository. Is there any way to remove rework of creating all the reports again for SA B.
Thanks
Meera

Ummm are you saying Subject Area A and B are basically the same hence you want to re-use the reports? Otherwise how do you expect reports with different attributes to work? If they are the same or similar and the same attributes exist then you should look into "Renaming A Subject Area" so that your reports get migrated to the new SA. Once you done that you can copy them to another installation where you din't rename the SA they they should point to the new SA.

Subject areas of BI Answer

if i rename, delete or create a new presentation catalog from Bi Administrator, on BI Answer i don't see the changes in a list of subject areas, why??

Hi,
When you do some modification to your RPD to reflect the changes in the presentation you need to take care of 2 scenarioes:
1St Scenario: If you are working on the Online RPD then in presentation please click the reload server metadata. This link can be found on the left hand bottom when you click answers or you can go to Settings----->Administration------>Reload server metadata.
If you still face the issue then clear your cache. Log off from the session and open the presentation in a new session clearing your cookies.
2nd Scenario: If you are working on the RPD in Offline mode then save your RPD and close the same. Restart your Oracle BI Server and Presentation services and the changed data will be visible in the presentation.

Google Map Issue in OBIEE - Subject area not getting associated

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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.
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We looked into other threads in this community, different oracle support documents - Doc ID 1485088.1,Doc ID 1346805.1 etc and in different internet blogs - where it's easy as child's play, but we are still out of luck.
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Environment- windows server 2008 R2
Please suggest.
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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.

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,
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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.
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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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Report from multiple subject areas

Hi,
I need to create a report from multiple subject areas. I am not sure whether it;s possible in OBIEE answers.
Is there any other tool from OBIEE suite where I can design it?
Thanks

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.

OBIEE 11g: Searching Subject Area for measure names in Answers

Hello,
I have installed OBIEE 11g SampleApp 825 and just exploring the provided set of dashboards.
From the samples, I am performing following steps:
- I selected Edit Dashboard (for 2.1 Simple Demo Dashboard)
- For Column 2, in the Master Detail 1 Compound View, I did Edit Analysis
- which took me into the Answers design interface with 4 tabs (Criteria, Results, Prompts, Adv).
In the Criteria tab, there is the Subject Area pane on the left where it shows the Subject Area this Answers report is built on and a bunch of Folders like Time, Products, Base Facts etc.
Beside the Subject Area pane, is the Selected Columns pane where you drop fields from the folders.
This particular analysis (Product Line Analysis) has three columns: Revenue Analysis, Products Hierarchy and T05 Per Name Year.
Now, I want to find the folder to which the Revenue Analysis measure belongs. So, I started expanding each node/folder in the Subject Area pane and visually searching for "Revenue Analysis"....cannot find it!
How to determine which Subject Area folder a field on the Analysis belongs to? In Oracle Discoverer, only the Folders from which fields are selected are "enabled" so it's easy to navigate straight to that folder. Or again, in Discoverer, you can actually search for a particular field name and it will return all folders that have that field name pattern. While the Search feature on the top row is useful in finding which Analysis/Report match a string, it does not help in identifying relevant Subject Area Folder fields that match a pattern.
Is something similar available in Answers/OBIEE 11g?
Thanks,
Manish
Edited by: mhathi on Oct 21, 2010 8:53 AM

Again answering part of my own question...It was staring me right in the eye and I couldn't see it:-)...When you have a column in the Selected Columns pane, it's source is right there above the field name. If there is no source folder listed, then it might mean it's a formula. For example in my case, the Products Hierarchy column has the word Product above it...that's the folder it belongs to.
Good. But, the follow-on question still remains, how to search for folders containing a particular string, to find say all folders that have columns like %Margin%?
Edited by: mhathi on Oct 21, 2010 9:27 AM

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