Setting up a default Dashboard

Hi
We created a session variable to get portalpath for the users inorder to set a default dashboard. But, this is not working unless we choose default option for the Dashboard choice under "My Account" option.
Please, let us know if there is any workaround available to set a default dashboard without making any change to the Account(setting default in My Account) of a user.
Thanks.

Hi,
Refer : http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2008/06/obiee-directing-user-to-default.html
Cheers,
Aravind

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Setting Default Dashboard based on Groups/users in OBIEE 10g

Hi,
I am having a requirement and facing some issues with setting a default dashboard option to the users who ever access the application. Below is the brief description of entire requirement.
The main requirement is to integrate OBIEE into a .net and silver light application. We will be having a 3 links in the .net application , which in turn displays the OBIEE reports and dashboards upon clicking the 3 links.
We are using the concept of Init blocks, session variables and Go URL from an OBIEE standpoint for accomplishing this integration requirement. We have also configured LDAP server in OBIEE.
The issue we are facing is out of the 3 links in .net application, we have one link/icon called dashboard icon which should display bunch of OBIEE dashboard pages in the form of 4 tabs but currently it is showing the My Dashboard home page. For this to achieve to set default dashboard page is to go to My account and change the default dashboard to the desired dashboard and log out and log in back to the application and we will be all set with dashboard pages being displayed upon lcking the dashboard icon but this is manual process for each user as they need to login into the .net application and change the setting s in My Account manually to change the default dashboard setting to the desired one.
How should I make sure, whoever is logging into the Application (every user) should be able to see the default dashboard pages without changing the options manually by going to My Account.
The LDAP server is taking care of the Authentication part of the users as every user record is maintained in Active directory which in turn is part of LDAP server.
To brief high level requirement on single statement is  how to make a default dashboard pages to users based on group in OBIEE. Is there any option in OBIEE, where we can change or set a default dashboard to particular group in OBIEE either in RPD or UI level.
Appreciate your help on this.
Let me know if anyone needs any more information in this regard.
Thank
Praveen

You can set 'PORTALPATH'. Have a look at these threads below:
how to get default dashboards when users logs in
Re: PORTALPATH for Each Group
- Bharath

Setting Default Dashboard for weblogic

I have migrated from 11.1.1.5 to 11.1.1.6 I have copied & pasted catlog in EM.
Issue is I am not able to set default dashboard page to weblogic i get error
Exception occured when saving user preferences to catalog access denied for user to path /users/weblogic/_prefs/userprefsxmlstore
I have granted full control to weblogic. & I can set this page as home page for another user.
How can I achive this for weblogic
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You can check this topic on suppot.oracle.com
https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/ui/km/SearchDocDisplay.jspx?id=1474923.1&type=DOCUMENT&displayIndex=1&returnToSrId=&srnum=&org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.webapp.AdfacesFilterImpl.IS_RETURNING=true&_adf.ctrl-state=sixc8by79_9

How to set the Default Dashboard for a Group

Hello,
we have, in our project, two groups defined in the dashboard; How can we set the Default Dashboard for each Group?
Actually every user of both groups at logon views the "my dashboard" page.
Thank you

hi
check this http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2008/06/obiee-directing-user-to-default.html
also this..
http://bvellinger.blogspot.com/2008/04/default-dashboard-obiee.html

Generating list of users' default dashboard setting

An Init Block has been created to set the "PORTALPATH" system session variable. However the users precedence in their Settings takes precedence over the variable.
With that being the ask is to provide what the current Default Dashboard is for each user, in other words, those who have set it through their My Account settings.
I assume this is stored in each users folder in the web catalog. With that being said and with their being a user population in the thousands, is anyone aware of any script or options to gather this information?
Thanks

Hi,
On 10g default users created are -
ANONYMOUS
CTXSYS
DBSNMP
DIP
DMSYS
EXFSYS
MDDATA
MDSYS
MGMT_VIEW
OLAPSYS
ORACLE_OCM
ORDPLUGINS
ORDSYS
OUTLN
SCOTT
SI_INFORMTN_SCHEMA
SYS
SYSMAN
SYSTEM
TSMSYS
WMSYS
XDB
Roles
CONNECT
RESOURCE
DBA
SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE
EXECUTE_CATALOG_ROLE
DELETE_CATALOG_ROLE
EXP_FULL_DATABASE
IMP_FULL_DATABASE
RECOVERY_CATALOG_OWNER
GATHER_SYSTEM_STATISTICS
LOGSTDBY_ADMINISTRATOR
ROLE
AQ_ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE
AQ_USER_ROLE
GLOBAL_AQ_USER_ROLE
SCHEDULER_ADMIN
HS_ADMIN_ROLE
OEM_ADVISOR
OEM_MONITOR
WM_ADMIN_ROLE
JAVAUSERPRIV
JAVAIDPRIV
JAVASYSPRIV
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JAVADEBUGPRIV
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JAVA_DEPLOY
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CTXAPP
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XDBWEBSERVICES
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Default Dashboard not working after user login

Hi All,
We have one issue in 11.1.1.7.1 where PORTALPATH is not working for users. As a result, user lands on home page/recent page instead of the default dashboard after login.
I followed Doc ID 1576576.1 and Bug 17071629 - PORTALPATH SESSION VARIABLE IS INEFFECTIVE is reported. I applied patch 17071629 on top of 7.1. I have tried and verified that
·     The URL we are using to login is “http://machinename:9704/analytics/saw.dll?bieehome&startPage=1”
·         There is no Start Page set in user’s My Account other than Default.
·         In Answers, the PORTALPATH session variable fetches correct dashboard path.
·         I removed space in the dashboard name and tried with following path “/shared/Dashboard/_portal/PortalPathTest”. Also, assigned same default value to the session variable. I also tried “/Shared Folders/Dashboard/Dashboards/PortalPathTest” and “%2fshared%2fDashboard%2f_portal%2fPortalPathTest” but nothing works.
·         lsinventory shows the patch got applied successfully.
One thing to notice -
1.       Login url is: "http://machinename:9704/analytics/saw.dll?bieehome&startPage=1"
2.       After login, browser URL gets changed to "http://http://scoreboard-sit.wellsfargo.com:9704/analytics/saw.dll?bieehomemachinename:9704/analytics/saw.dll?bieehome" and shows Home Page instead of default dashboard.
3.       Now at this stage, if I append "&startPage=1" to the above step 2 URL in browser, it automatically navigates to correct default dashboard.
Also, This patch has fixed default dashboard in Act As. That means, If I act as a User, I land on correct default dashboard. But if same user actually logs in, s/he lands on home page.
I suspect if URL redirection after login is the actual issue. Please suggest if anyone has an idea.
Thanks,
Akshat

I think this was the issue -
There was a java script error related to an undefined object, "accessMode" in logon.js. This is related to Accessibility or Section 508 (checked by Developer Tools of IE). We may have removed this code from the logon page which was causing the error. We had customized the page quite a bit previously. When I ignore the error and step through, I go to the correct portal path page. So we are going to replace the logon.js file with backup and hopefully it will fix the issue.
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Default dashBoard for Group

Hi Gurus,
How to set up default dashboard for a group of users..if i have 3 groups like g1,g2,g3..users need to get default page based on the group they belong to.

Hi SaiChand,
By looking the above link he used SQL to authenticate user like p_user=upper(:user)..how can i authenticate user and Group..can u send me SQL for that....what I am Expecting is when user enters his user name,it should be authenticated and get Default dashboard based on group he belongs to?
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Default dashboard page for each user group

How can I set for each user group (or for each user) which dashboard will be opened as the deefault after login?
Can I also set the default page in that dashboard?

Hi,
Under Settings->My account->Preferences->User can select his default dashboard.Is it ok?
If you dont want them to select that option,you need to redirect them...You can use that blog....
Create a table in db with two columns-User, Portalpath
In initialization blog give query to fetch Portalpath from db based on user login... Follow steps from blog...
Check this blog....http://bintelligencegroup.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/external-table-authentication/
Clear explanation for external table authentication....in the same way you cna do but take two columns user,portalpath and follow the steps in blog.
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Srikanth
Edited by: Srikanth Mandadi on Oct 7, 2010 1:44 AM

Default Dashboard for user

Hi!
i am facing the problem to give default Dashboard for user.i can set my default dashboard from "my account" but is there any other way so that Administrator can give diffrent dashboard to diffrent user as default dashboard ???as in i want user1 can have dashboard1 as default dashboard whereas user2 can have Dashboard2 as default, which admin can set.
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Deepak

Is this helpful?
http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2008/06/obiee-directing-user-to-default.html

Default dashboard Page.

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My dashbaord like below
Country: Date: Team:
I have 3 prompts
i set max(Date) in date prompt.
In edit dashboard page i set default. MY-8/05/11-Chennai
When i schedule dashboard reports. It automaticaly took above prompt values.
My requirment is when i schedule we need to take max of date value in the prompt.
When i remove default dashboard prompt it took max(date) but when i schedule it took apply saved selection values.
How to automate apply saved selection values.
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Edited by: Raj on May 9, 2011 9:28 PM

yes you can,first you log in as arnold and go to his settings -> my account do it like that

Several users have lost the ability to change their default dashboard.

The users have the ability to set other preferences, but if the default dashboard is changed they get an Access Denied message. The user's default dashboard still exists and is working. They want to change it to another existing dashboard for which they have access. When they try to change the dashboard, they get the access denied message.
They can view the dashboards and change other preferences (language, time zone, etc.) they just cannot change the default dashboard.

Thanx for the reply. According to catalog manager, the user has change/delete to this file (and the entire directory). As for the file system, the directory security is no different than for any of the user directories that are work fine.
I did find that if I give the user:
(1) Presentation Server Admin
(2) The user then gets a "path noth found error".
(3) Have the user change the url to go to answers instead of dashboards.
(4) Create a simple report.
(5) Save it under "My folder"
Then I remove them from Presentation Server Admin and have them log back in. Then they can set their default dashboard. This is obviously an unacceptable work around.

Regarding Default dashboard

Hi Experts,
i want to set default dashboard for particular user and group.
i dont know the steps for setting different default dashboard for
different users.
please give any solution for it.

if you're using external table authentication, you better store the PORTALPATH in your database for each user and now in initialization block assign this column value to the PORTALPATH variable so that when user logs in using PORTALPATH it always navigate to the specified dashboard in portalpath column.
check this for more info
http://obiee101.blogspot.com/2008/06/obiee-directing-user-to-default.html

Default dashboards for users

How can I set default dashboards for users on startup? I mean always a user start OBI,one (default) dashboard should be shown...How can I set this property? Can anyone tell me in detail?

Hi,
You can set the default dashboard for user.
After logging with the user in OBI Answers Goto-->Settings on right top corner then click on My accounts and there you will find default dashboard preference where you can set it.
If you find thsi answer useful please mark it correct.
Regards,
Tarang Jain

Different project users require different default dashboards.

The OBI system has two projects, maybe more in future, with distinct sets of users. I need to set the default dashboard, dependent on which project they belong to, so that they do not have to go 'My account' >> 'default dashboard' on initial login. The user list is held externally in an Oracle database table. each user is a member of a 'group', 'group' can be linked to project in the table if necessary.
How can I do this?

We have a similar situation with the users list in Active Directory. So we set up groups in Active Directory like App A Users, App A Dev, App B Users, App B Dev, etc. We assigned Active Directory members to their respective application groups and then got the list of users and groups into an external table using an LDAP query. The we set up a session initialization block for the GROUP session variable based on user id, to read the GROUP values from the external table.
Then in Presentation Services Administration --> Manage Interactive Dasdhboards, we assigned the permissions of the dashboard to the groups that needed them. So when a user logs in, he will see only the dashboard to which he has either Read or Full Control permission.

ACT AS - default dashboard

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I am using ACT AS functionality and everything is set in the backend as well in front end. I see that if am A, and am given privilege to see the dashboard as B, once i click OK after selecting the User as B, it takes to me a landing page which is not the default dashboard set in PORTAL PATH variable where user login is considered with an initialization block. What is going wrong. How can we connect the variables PROXY, PROXY LEVELwith PORTAL PATH variable. i have two diff initialization blocks in rpd where one checks for the logged user authentication and hits on portal path as default dashboard and the other one to check proxy access which is not hitting on PORTAL PATH.
Is there any solution
Thanks & Regards
VM

I think this was the issue -
There was a java script error related to an undefined object, "accessMode" in logon.js. This is related to Accessibility or Section 508 (checked by Developer Tools of IE). We may have removed this code from the logon page which was causing the error. We had customized the page quite a bit previously. When I ignore the error and step through, I go to the correct portal path page. So we are going to replace the logon.js file with backup and hopefully it will fix the issue.
Cheers!
Akshat

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