Required User Variables

I don't know if there's a definitive / specific answer for this question but it's one thing I can't seem to really understand. I've read the 11g R2 docs which advise you that if you're using Bash$ in Linux, then you're going to add entries in your $.bash_profile and they tell you just which ones you need to get the OUI installer running on a Linux system. They don't however clearly recommend or display examples or what you 'should' have in your Oracle users home environment. So besides the few that are listed below, are there any other mandatory 'env' variables I should / must have in a production Oracle 11g R2 Enterprise Edition system?
# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/11.2/db1
ORACLE_SID=ide
export PATH ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID

actually none of these are mandatory or "must have" in your profile
they just make your life easier so you dont have to set them at each login
its comfortable when you have only 1 instance on a server, but not much of use when you have several in different homes
1.2.1 & 1.2.2 & 1.2.3 :
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10839/admin_ora.htm
you can however simply set the enviroment by e.g:
. oraenvwhich will prompt for a SID, then read /etc/oratab and set the variables based on that

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According to me it should work in the below mentioned manner , but need help in improvising the formula.
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If anybody can help in suggesting how can i use user variable in this formula to achieve the required result.
Thanks

Hi
Thanks for the suggestion and it would be a better idea to use ISIDESC as compared to ISMBR.
I also wanted to ask if in the below mentioned formula if the result of first line is true than will the second line pick the current_forecast value of the respective member of Q1 and divide it by the current_forecast value of Q1.
IF(@ISIDESC("Q1"))
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Odd Behaviour using User Variables to select members in Planning form

I have a form to enter budget adjustments and another form to review the effects of those adjustments at a parent Entity level.
For each area of the business there are obviously different adjustment and parent levels required in the form.
In summary I can drive a form from a User Variable using the functions (Children, IChildren, ILvl0Descendants, Descendants and IDescendants) but trying to use other options results in unexpected behaviour.
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To get round this problem i've relied on security to filter out the accounts i do not need to see in the forms for the specific users, and kept the form selection on @IDESCENDANTS(Account_Parent).
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Require User Input for either dashboard prompts not BOTH ! !

Fellow Earthlings,
How to make required for user input for either of dashboard prompts not BOTH. !!!!!!
Like if they enter '123' on DashP1 they need not have to enter DashP2 value and vice versa on same dashboard prompt.
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If this any way possible with Action links or any other methods.
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Hi Vidya, Please post that Script it will be quite handy for other OTN users.
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Multiple members for single user variable???

Hi,
Can I select multiple members or a hierarchy for a single user variable?
My requirement is to use a dimension which consist of more than 100 members but the user will not enter data for 100 members
at the same time so I want to give user an option to select the members for which he wants to enter data.
I was thinking of using user variable but it is allowing me to select only one member for user variable created for that dimension,
that means if he has to enter data for 10 members he has to change that variable 10 times or I have to use 10 different user variable for that dimension.
what if any user wants 20 members, at that time I have only 10 user variables.
Please help..
Thanks in advance..

Hi,
Can I select multiple members or a hierarchy for a single user variable?Are the required members descendants of any particular member(hierarchy )?
If so, you can use IDescendants<user variable> in the form's page. And you can also use dynamic user variable option.
Regards
-Samrat Mane
Edited by: 918547 on Aug 22, 2012 4:54 PM

Am I able to create a conditional action or user variable on a question slide?

Hey everyone
We have modules where there is content slides mixed with question slides. We want the learner to answer the questions and not skip them so originally we removed the next button and just used the continue function of the question. We have lots of feedback from people that they are getting stuck as they want to go back and review the content but once they hit the question slide again (which they may have already answered) they cant get past it as they have already answered it and there is no 'next' button so they have to close and reopen the module.
Is there a way to make it so they have to answer the question but once they have answered it the 'next' button appears so they can then keep going back and forwards within the module. I was wondering if it was possible using a conditional action or user variable?
Thanks
Sarah

Go to Quiz > Settings > Required drop down and set to Answer All - The user must answer every question.

ICM Admin Script to export user variables to log file

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These are global variables set in admin scripts for open/close flags and looking to see at a glance what the values of all the variables are at a given time throughout the day without having to monitor each script/etc that uses them.
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Utilizing XML Publisher Report Bursting Program user-variables

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Bursting propertes.....
{user-variable:cp:territory=US, user-variable:cp:ReportRequestID=4413342, user-variable:cp:language=en, user-variable:cp:responsibility=20678, user-variable.OA_MEDIA=http://hostname:8000/OA_MEDIA, burstng-source=EBS, user-variable:cp:DebugFlag=N, user-variable:cp:parent_request_id=4413342, user-variable:cp:locale=en-US, user-variable:cp:user=USER, user-variable:cp:application_short_name=XDO, user-variable:cp:request_id=4413368, user-variable:cp:org_id=204, user-variable:cp:reportdescription=Report Name, user-variable:cp:Dummy for Data Security=Y}
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Thanks Ike, it likely would. The thing I keep coming back to is an example in the BIP Developer's Guide that suggests you can set a property and have it made available:
DocumentProcessor dp = new DocumentProcessor (cfgFile, xmlFile, dir);
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dp.setConfig(prop);
dp.process()
Seems to me that the work going on behind the scenes here (based on log statements alone) suggest the same sort of integration.. but I suppose not.
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User Variable Options: How can I use them in a Business Rule?

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What do I do if I want to have that dimension in Columns or Rows? How can I set a BR to directly reference the member chosen under User Variable Options?
J

Thanks Alp, but I can't seem to reproduce what you are writing below. I want to refer my Business Rule to address the value set in File / Preferences / User Variable Options; no matter what members I show elsewhere in the data form.
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J

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HP LaserJet 1320 requires user intervention to print after Leopard

Ever since upgrading to Leopard, almost every single time I send a print job to my HP LaserJet 1320 (over the network, it actually connected to a PowerMac G5 in my office), it triggers an error warning (orange flashing light) on the printer. Pressing the main green print button lets the job print, but this is really annoying.
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A quick Google reveals at least one other Leopard using HP LaserJet 1320 owner is seeing a similar issue. And actually, as I composed this post, I found some 1320 owners in another Apple Discussion post about HP printer issues with Leopard. They suggested using the generic PostScript driver, but then I really like to have the ability to duplex.
Nothing in the /private/var/log/cups/error_log file of note as far as I can tell.
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Hi all,
I'm working on a sales training with Captivate 5, based on PPT. I want to do the following, but can't figure out how to design the advanced actions to do it:
The learner is asked to choose 1 of 3 products he wants to work with (ok, that's easy).
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If anybody is interesting in creating the necessary actions for me at a reasonable rate, please let me know. I'm bordering desperation.
Happy new year,
Anja

I'm not sure I fully followed exactly what you are trying to do, but essentially what I got from your post is that its pretty complicated and you want to create new variables on the fly.
For that sort of thing I would suggest that advanced actions may not be advanced enough for what you are trying to achieve and that you should go for a Flash Widget instead.
For anybody getting started on widgets, I throughourly recommend the Widget Factory by the Widget King, which can be found at:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/widgetking/
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http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=register_no_session&id=1719643&loc=en_u s
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Value of user variable passed in sender/receiver queries

Hello experts,
I have to BEx queries, one sender and one receiver, I linked them in RSBBS
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Regards,
Thibault Jacobs

HI Thibault,
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Unable to publish in Swf format. Get error message: 'Swf compilation failed. Note: Please verify if any of the actionscript keywords is used as user variable name'. Anyone know how to fix?

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Hi All,
One of my client is using User variable in data form to define POV.
Now if user has access to 2 member in the Dimension, he should able to see 2 member when he try to assign the value to this "user variable"
but he can see some of the parent member name ,this parent name has only one child which is a shared member of the 2 base member for which he has access.
For Example:
Entity Dimension:
E1 (user has access)
E2
E3(user has access)
E4
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Alt_Entity1E1 (sharedmember)
Alt_Entity2E2 (sharedmember)
Alt_Entity3E3 (sharedmember)
Alt_Entity4E4 (sharedmember)
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E1 (user has access)
E3(user has access)
Alt_Entity1
Alt_Entity3
Now if I add another member under this parent, than user are unable to see this parent member.
For Example:
Entity Dimension:
E1 (user has access)
E2
E3(user has access)
E4
Alt_Entity
Alt_Entity1
E1 (sharedmember)
E2 (sharedmember)
Alt_Entity2E2 (sharedmember)
Alt_Entity3
E3 (sharedmember)
E2 (sharedmember)
Alt_Entity4E4 (sharedmember)
User is able to see below members, when he try to assign value
E1 (user has access)
E3(user has access)
Any idea?

Sorry, but actually its the parent that needs tagging with "Never Share", not the level 0 member, so Alt_Entity1 and Alt_Entity2 etc, see Essbase DBA guide
understanding Implied
Sharing
The shared member property defines a shared data relationship explicitly. Some
members are shared even if you do not explicitly set them as shared. These
members are said to be implied shared members.
If you do not want a member to be shared implicitly, mark the parent as Never Share so
that the data is duplicated, and is not shared. See Understanding Shared Members for an
explanation of how shared members work.
So in the example above
Entity Dimension:
E1 (user has access)
E2
E3(user has access)
E4
Alt_Entity
Alt_Entity1 - Set to "Never Share"E1 (sharedmember)
Alt_Entity2E2 (sharedmember)
Alt_Entity3 - Set to "Never Share"E3 (sharedmember)
Alt_Entity4E4 (sharedmember
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Anthony

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