Home page

Use this page to:

• Quickly navigate to the area of the application where you can complete a specific task (for example, create a dashboard).

• Access your objects or the objects to which you have been given permission to view or edit.

• View your alerts.

• Access Oracle Business Intelligence documentation and other Oracle product information.

• Download Oracle applications that can integrate or interact with Oracle BI EE.

• Quickly perform pre-defined searches (for example, search for all of your dashboards or Scorecard objects) or access the full-text catalog search option.

For more information, see:

• "Accessing and Managing Your Alerts"

• "What Is the Oracle BI EE Home Page?"

• "Where Do I Store and Manage Oracle BI EE Objects?"

Components

Create...

Provides links to initiate the most popular creation tasks by category (for example, Published Reports or Actionable Intelligence). Click the More link to access a list of the category's other creation tasks. Oracle BI EE populates this list of categories based on what is installed on your company's system and the pieces to which you have been given the rights to access.

Browse /Manage...

Provides the ability to search the folders and objects to which you have permission to access. You can click the Catalog Folders [Search] link to access the catalog search interface where you can search for an object by name, location, and type. For more information about the catalog and how to search it, see "Managing Objects in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog."

This section also gives you the ability to quickly perform pre-defined searches of the catalog by clicking any link. For example, click My Scorecards to access a list of all of the Scorecard objects located in your My Folders location. After you click a link, the Catalog page displays and contains the results of your search, as well as the pre-defined search's criteria defaulted into the Search fields.

Get Started...

Provides links to information and tools that will acquaint and help you with Oracle BI EE and other related Oracle technologies. Note that your administrator can customize this section to meet the informational needs of the users.

This section contains the following links:

• Oracle BI EE Documentation — Click this link to access the Oracle Business Intelligence documentation library, which contains the complete set of Oracle BI EE guides in HTML and PDF formats.

• Help Table of Contents — Click the drop down button to choose which product document's table of contents you want to access. User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition displays in this list, along with the tables of contents for products that integrate with Oracle BI EE (for example, Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Enterprise and Oracle Marketing).

• Oracle Technology Network — Click this link to access the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), where you can search for technical articles about Oracle products, participate in discussions about Oracle products, ask the user community technical questions, and search for and download Oracle products.

• Download BI Desktop Tools — Displays options that allow you to download various BI desktop tools, such as Smart View for MS Office. The options available depend on the products that you are eligible to download.

  For more information on the BI Desktop tools, see "Downloading BI Desktop Tools."

  After you have installed or configured a product, the product download link is no longer displayed in the list.

Alerts

(This section is available only when one or more alerts are delivered to the Oracle BI EE Home page.)

Displays your alerts (up to a maximum of five), including the priority (High, Normal, or Low) and last delivery date and time for each alert.

To view the latest occurrence of an alert, click its name. The "Alert dialog" is displayed, where you can view information about the alert and the content of the alert. You can also edit and run the agent that generated the alert, if you have the appropriate permissions.

Each alert has the following links:

• View — Use this link to display the Alert dialog, where you can view information about the alert and the content of the alert. You can also edit and run the agent that generated the alert, if you have the appropriate permissions.

• Clear — Use this button to delete the alert.

• More — Displays the following options:

  • Edit Agent — (This option is available only if you have permission to modify the agent.) Use this option to display the agent in the "Agent editor," where you can edit the agent.

  • Run Agent — (This option is available only if you have permission to execute the agent.) Use this option to run the agent that generated the alert.

  • Subscribe to this feed — Use this option to display the browser's page that lets you subscribe to an RSS feed. Using this page, you can subscribe to an Oracle BI Alerts feed (that is, the channel that contains the delivered agents). For more information, see "Subscribing to an RSS Feed for Alerts."

  • View all alerts — Use this option to display the "Alerts dialog," where you can view and manage all your alerts.

If more than five alerts have been delivered, the View All Alerts link is displayed. Click this link to display the "Alerts dialog," where you can view and manage all your alerts.

To configure an agent to deliver an alert to the Home page, you must select the Home Page and Dashboard option on the "Agent editor: Destinations tab." For more information about creating agents, see "Creating Agents."

Recent

Contains two sections:

• Dashboards — Contains a list of dashboards that you have recently viewed, created, or updated. Note that these dashboards display in the first row of this section. Click the More Dashboards link to access additional dashboards.

• Others — Contains a list of objects (other than dashboards) that you have recently viewed, created, or updated. For example, this list can include: KPIs, scorecards, and BI Publisher data models.

The links that are included with an individual object (for example, Edit and Properties) are displayed based on the object's type and your permissions for that object. For example, if you can view but not edit a dashboard, only the Open link is displayed with the dashboard. If a dashboard that you created displays in this section, then the Open and Edit links display with the dashboard. Click the More link to access a list of additional dashboard options, such as Properties.

Most Popular

Contains a list of recommended objects that other users with your same role viewed. You have not accessed these objects yet but may find them useful. Oracle BI EE compiles this list of recommendations by determining which objects similar users have accessed and compares those objects to your list of recently accessed object. Oracle BI EE includes only items to which you have the view permission. Only items saved to the Shared Folder display in this list.

The links that are included with an individual object are displayed based on the object type and your permissions for that object. For more information about how Oracle BI EE determines the object's links, see the Recent component in this topic.