Smartview for OBIEE - Excel 2007

Hello,
I have installed OBIEE 11.1.1.6.0 on my desktop with simple install. and have "SmartView" Menu on Excel 2007. When I click smartview and try to create private connection using: http://localhost:7001/analytics/jbips
by selecting "Oracle BI EE" connection provider type. I am getting the error "can not connect to the provider". Then I am getting the login screen. I entered the user id and password. Now, I am getting the login error. The login user id and password are correct because I use the same user id and password to connect to analytics, enterprise manager and console (weblogic) and my OBIEE is up and running.
Anybody has any ideas on this error?
Thank you,

No I don't think so because SV 11.1.2.3 user guide mentioned that it suports Office Excel 2007 as follows:
Office support
When working with Oracle BI EE data sources, Smart View supports these versions of Microsoft Office:
2007
2010 32-bit
2010 64-bit
Regards,
Ahmad.

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"Out of memory" error using SmartView v11.1.1.3.500, MS Excel 2007 & MS Win7 Prof SP1 (all 32-bit)

Hi All,
A user is regularly experiencing "Out of memory" error messages while retrieving large MS Excel 2007 worksheets (ad-hoc analysis; approx 700 rows by 13 columns) connected to a Planning cube via 32-bit SmartView v11.1.1.3.500 (Build 008) on a 32-bit MS Windows 7 Prof (SP1) computer with 4GB of RAM. The same user is reporting experiencing a number of other issues (eg, TCP-related time-out, unable to connect to the APS, SmartView add-in disappearing, etc) at the same time.
I could not locate any specific KB document from the My Oracle Support website which addressed these specific issues all at once but from various posts out there, the recommendations to address similar issues were as follows:
Tick the Options > Display > Reduce Excel file size option;
Tick the Options > Display > Improve metadata storage option;
Rebuild the MS Excel workbook from scratch;
Delete all temp files located in the C:\Users\USER NAME\AppData\Local\Temp directory;
Disable auto-recovery for MS Excel;
Add misc TCP-related registry entries (eg, TcpTimedWaitDelay, MaxUserPort, MaxFreeTcbs, etc) on both the client PC and server;
Adjust MS Windows for best performance;
Increase the page file by 25%-50% more than the physical amount of RAM installed on the client PC;
Relocate the page file to a different drive as compared to the drive where MS Windows is installed on the client PC;
On top of the above, are there any other recommendations anyone else would like to share to address the "Out of memory" issue?
Many thanks in advance,
JBM

Monitor the Full GC in GC log and see if there is any gradual increase in the free memory retained after every Full GC over a period, if there is a gradual increase and if its reaching maximum specified heap over a period of time, that means there might be some slow leak from application or native libraries.
Also please check if you have any pattern or request which might be triggering OOM all of the sudden.
If its memory leak best way to investigate that is to capture JRA's at regular interval's and monitor top 10 objects and see which one is growing and consuming more % of heap over a period of time.
You can also have this by captured by print_object_summary and print_memusage options in JRCMD command over a period of time.
Hope this helps.
- Tarun

Smartview for OBIEE - Excel 2007

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