Have you ever felt the need to modify the analytics system
settings in an easier way other than getting inside the OS’s file system and
editing the files? The latest update of Oracle analytics cloud offers a comprehensive
capability to configure system settings easily through a user interface. where users can alter configuration and restart services
through the click of a button.
To access this new capability, from the DV home page, click
on the burger icon and navigate to Console. Under Console, navigate to Service
Administration. Clicking on Configure System Settings will open a new page
where parameters are available for modification. Below is a screen shot of the
new screen
To edit the parameters, one must double click on the value
and a text box appears where user types the appropriate value. As soon as the
value is changed, a call out appears next to the fields indicating that the
value has been updated and a restart is required. There is a Restart button on
the top right corner which can be leveraged to bounce the services for the
parameter to take effect.
Below is a digest of some of the config parameters that can
be modified via this interface in the Jan 2019 update of OAC.
Default Scrolling Enabled
This parameter specifies the data view for tabular, pivot,
trellis views in BI dashboard. By setting this to true, it sets reports to show the output with Data View as 'Fixed
headers with scrolling content'
If the parameter is set to false, it sets reports to show
the Data View as 'Content Paging'.
Dashboard Prompt Parameters
Show Null Value when column is Nullable
Have you ever been troubled by the ever-present NULL in your
dashboard prompts? Have you ever wondered how to get rid of that NULL value
from the prompt? Well, here is the answer. Set the parameter to these values
and expect the changes in behavior
always —
Always shows the term "NULL" above the column separator in the
drop-down list
never —
Never shows the term "NULL" in the drop-down list.
asDataValue —
Displays as a data value in the drop-down list, not as the term
"NULL" above the separator in the drop-down list.
Dashboard Prompt Auto Complete.
Have you ever thought if you can make your dashboard work
like google search engine which provides auto complete suggestions? If yes,
then it is possible by turning on the parameter “Support Auto Complete” to
true.
If you set Support Auto Complete to true, then the “Prompt
Auto Complete” option appears under My Account. The same would appear under
Dashboard settings as well
In addition to auto complete, here are 2 more additional
parameters you can play with for more options.
Case Insensitive Auto Complete: (Default: True)
Specifies whether the auto-complete functionality is case-insensitive.
If set to true, case is not considered when a user enters a prompt value such
as "Oracle" or "oracle." If set to false, case is
considered when a user enters a prompt value, so the user must enter
"Oracle" and not "oracle" to find the Oracle record. The
system recommends the value with the proper case.
Matching Level: (Default: MatchAll)
Specifies whether the auto-complete functionality uses
matching to find the prompt value that the user enters in the prompt field.
These settings do not apply when the user accesses the Search dialog to locate
and specify a prompt value.
StartsWith — Searches
for a match that begins with the text that the user types
WordStartsWith — Searches
for a match at the beginning of a word or group of words
MatchAll — Searches
for any match within the word or words.
In the below screenshot you can see that I have a Product
Name prompt and I have typed “St” and it is being searched for every occurrence
in the prompt field
Time zone parameters.
Have you ever wanted to have the date time columns in your report
in your preferred time zone? If yes, then there are parameters mentioned below
controls the display of time zones.
Default Data Offset Time zone (Default: None):
The time zone offset of the original data. To enable the time zone
to be converted so that users see the appropriate zone, you must set the value
of this element or variable. If
you do not set this option, then no time zone conversion occurs because the
value is "unknown". An offset that indicates the number of hours away from GMT time.
For example: "GMT-05:00" or "-300", which
means minus 5 hours.
Default User Preferred Time zone:
Specifies the users' default preferred time zone before they select their own in the My Account dialog. Setting the value here will affect the default time zone under my account in BI answers and dashboards.For example: (GMT -02:00) Cairo
Setting Currency preferences
With the new user interface, currency settings can be managed
in Oracle analytics cloud by uploading the currencies.xml and
userPrefcurrencies.xml, which earlier had to be saved in the file system. Double
click under the property value of the respective parameter to enter edit mode.
Upload the appropriate xml files to currencies.xml and user
currency preferences.xml to obtain the desired currency functionality.
In OAC, currency settings are similar to the way it is done in
on-premise OBIEE. Please refer to the documentation link for more details.
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