Working
with Oracle BI Briefing Books
Oracle
BI Briefing Books are used to store/capture a series of static images of
pages/requests at server, allowing the information to be viewed offline and
shareable with others users or we can keep track of changes offline.
How
do we enable this feature?
By default this functionality will
not be available to everyone how is using Oracle Business Intelligence.We need
to do few server side setting and client side settings to enable this feature.
Server
Side configuration:
Go
Settings – Administration -- Manage Privileges
In
Access -- 'Access to Briefing Books' provide who are all can access the
Briefing Books functionality
In
Briefing Book section– 'Add to or edit a Briefing Book' in this section add
people/groups who need this ability.
In
Briefing Book section– 'Download Briefing Book' this enables to option to
download or print captured information. Set
who can download by users or groups.
Based
on login, user will be able see Briefing Book icon
/link where ever is applicable.
/link where ever is applicable.
In
Answers catalog section, user will be able to see one more folder called 'My
Briefing Books' after enabling this feature.
If
user is allowed to access Briefing Books, then on each interactive page bottom
left they will be able to see Briefing Book icon .
.
If
users are interested in requests to see in Briefing Book, then user need to
enable this feature at request level, to do that follow these steps.
Go
to Dashboard Editor – Select Request –Click on Properties –Chose Report Links
from menu –Choose check box 'Add to Briefing Book' option.
Once
User clicks on Briefing Book Icon/Link following page will pops up with in
which Book and how to captured information will be there as follows.
Use
new Briefing Book button to create new Book or select from drop down where do
you want to add snapshot.
We
can add content into briefing books by two ways:
Snapshot: This adds the
content in its current state. Snapshot content preserves the original data
and
is not updated when the briefing book is rerun. Snapshot content will not be
updated using Oracle BI Delivers.
Updatable: The content is
refreshed whenever the briefing book is downloaded,or when it is specified as the delivery content for an iBot
in Oracle BI Delivers.
Where
Briefing Books will be stored?
In the Presentation Catalog briefing
books are saved under My Folder -- _briefingbook folder. Here you can rename
Briefing Book names or you can delete completely Book.
How
do we access Briefing Books?
All
saved briefing books are accessible under My Briefing Books which is present
under Oracle BI Answers catalog section.
To
access briefing books user needs to have access to Answers access apart from
Briefing Book related access.
When
ever user desire to access snapshot he has to navigate to My Briefing Books
then select which ever Briefing Book user needed.
To
download the briefing book, click the Get Now button and specify the location
in which to save it.
Downloaded
briefing books are saved with an .ssb(Simply Safe backup archive) file
extension.
If
user chooses Print Now, in above screen it will create a PDF version of
Briefing Book.
How
do user views Briefing Book?
To
view Briefing Books at client side, in client machine need to have Briefing Book
Reader.
Where
do we get Briefing Book Reader?
We
can find Briefing Book Reader software in Client Ancillary folder.
OBIEESoftware\Installables\OracleBI\Windows\Client_Ancillary\Oracle_Business_Intelligence_Briefing_Book_Reader\
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