What Action Types Are Available?

The types of actions that are available are categorized into two groups: those that navigate to related content and those that invoke operations, functions, or processes in external systems.

Privileges control which types of actions you can create. You might be able to create only navigate-type actions, only invoke-type actions, or both navigate- and invoke-type actions. Or, you might be able to only execute actions (if they exist as shared objects in the catalog or in a shared object, for example in a dashboard or analysis). For more information, see "Who Can Create Actions?"

In addition, where you can an add an action depends on its type. For information, see "Where Can I Add Actions?"

For information about the Contextual Event action type, which developers can use when adding Oracle BI EE objects to Oracle ADF applications, see "Passing Business Intelligence Content with the Oracle BI EE Contextual Event Action" in Developer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Actions that Navigate to Related Content

The following list identifies and describes the types of actions that navigate to related content:

Navigate to BI Content — Navigates to an analysis, a specific dashboard page, or dashboard.
Navigate to a Web Page — Navigates to a specified URL.
Navigate to EPM Content — Navigates to Financial Reporting content.

This action type requires some configuration before it is available. For information on the required configuration, see Integrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.
Navigate to E-Business Suite — Navigates to an Oracle E-Business Suite page or form. You use this type of action to allow users to navigate back to an Oracle E-Business Suite page or form after they have first logged in to Oracle E-Business Suite and then accessed Oracle BI EE.

This action type requires some configuration before it is available. For information on the required configuration, see Integrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.
Navigate to Siebel CRM — Navigates to a view (such as an opportunity) in a Siebel CRM application. You use this type of action to allow users to navigate from a dashboard that is embedded in a Siebel CRM application to a record in a view in the CRM application.

This action type requires some configuration before it is available. For information on the required configuration, see Integrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Actions that Invoke Operations, Functions or Processes in External Systems

The following list identifies and describes the types of actions that invoke operations, functions, or processes in external systems:

Invoke a Web Service — Invokes a Web Service operation or any SOA service that is exposed as a Web Service (for example, a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) process in the Oracle SOA Suite that is exposed as a Web Service).

This action type requires some configuration before you can use it. For information on the required configuration, see Integrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.
Invoke a Java Method — Invokes a Java method in an Enterprise Java Bean (EJB).

This action type requires some configuration before you can use it. For information on the required configuration, see Integrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.
Invoke a Browser Script — Invokes a JavaScript function from the client web browser.

This action type requires some configuration before you can use it. For information on the required configuration, see Integrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Invoke Server Script — Executes a custom script when the current agent completes. The custom script type can be either Javascript or VBScript.

Note:

This action supports custom script actions when the server is running on Microsoft Windows. For other platforms (including Windows), consider using the Invoke Java Method (EJB) or Invoke Web Services action.

Invoke an HTTP Request — Sends an HTTP request through the server to a target URL. This action type is used to invoke external systems that are exposed by URL APIs.
Invoke Agent — Invokes another agent. This action type lets you chain agents. For example, you can have Agent A invoke Agent B, which invokes Agent C and so on.
Invoke Java Jobs — Executes a custom Java program action that was created in a previous release (prior to 11g) and upgraded in this release. You cannot create this type of action. (See "How Will Actions Created in Previous Releases Be Upgraded?") This action type is read-only.