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I don't mean to rant, but I've been a huge supporter of OBIEE 10g for years now. I've finally got 11g installed on my laptop, and I've spent 5 minutes playing with straight forward answers stuff, and I've already hit two or three "showstopper" issues, and 2 or three "really annoying" items:
1. I go in to Answers (Sample sales), choose "P1 Product" and then go to the Results tab. As expected, I see a list of products. So then I go back to the Criteria tab, and add in "P2 Product Type", "P3 LOB", and "P4 Brand". Navigate back to the Results tab...and it's showing exactly the same 1 column of products as before. Hit the refresh button just in case...and that doesn't help either. Is this a bug? Or is there some magic other than just switching between criteria and results tabs to see the "new" results???
2. Trying to figure out what SQL is going on in #1, I click on the administration link. But instead of popping up a new window and leaving my original analysis alone, it navigates me to the admin page. When I try to go back to the analysis using back arrow, everything has been erased...so I've lost it. Also, the "Administration" link doesn't allow me to "Open in new browser window". Am I completely insane, or has this functionality been totally ruined?
3. In the criteria tab, items used to have a filter icon, formula icon, sort icon, etc. directly on their tiles. Now I have to hit the little dropdown and pick from a list. 1) this hides functionality from users, 2) this adds extra mouse clicks and slows things down with little if any apparent benefit. Is there a reason this was done?
4. In the criteria tab, if I have two dimensions with several attributes, I used to be able to re-sort the dimensions in front of each other by dragging and dropping the dimension name (upper part of tile) instead of each individual dimension attribute. Looks like this completely doesn't work in 11g. Bug?
I'm hoping my experience improves (quickly)...because this is really really poor. To find this much stuff in less than 10 minutes is really disappointing. New functionality might be great...but if I can't even get basic queries to show results properly, this is useless. Can someone please confirm if these are bugs and/or if I'm not doing something right?
Thanks,
Scott

Just to update item #1, if I add all four columns at the start in the criteria tab, I can then "remove" any of them and they get removed from the results. But if I go to add them back in, again they are not showing up in the results.
Two other dumb questions:
1. Anyone hear info on when 11.1.1.4 will be out?
2. There are like 30+ patches already on support.oracle.com for 11.1.1.3. Do I have to patch all of them?
3. Will the patches address the issues I'm seeing?
Thanks, sorry for the rant, quite frustrated.
Scott

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