What Is the Oracle BI EE Global Header?

The global header provides quick access to commonly used functions and is always available from the user interface. For example, you can use the global header to begin a new task, search the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, access the product documentation, or view a different object, without having to return to the Home page. The global header also includes the Home page link so that you can quickly access the Home page from other pages. Note that the functionality available on the global header is determined by privileges.

Your administrator can customize the global header by changing the order in which the links display or by adding links to internal or external locations such as Google or OTN. For more information, see "Providing Custom Links in Presentation Services" in System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

Figure 1-4 shows the global header.

The global header includes the following components:

• Search — Enables you to search the catalog. For information on how to use this area, see "How Can I Search for Objects?"

• Advanced — Displays the "Catalog page" in search mode, where you can search for objects in the catalog. In search mode, the "Search pane" is displayed rather than the "Folders pane" within the page.

• Administration — Available only if you are logged in as an administrator. Displays the"Administration page," where you perform administration tasks such as managing privileges and metadata for maps. For information on the administration tasks, see System Administrator's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

• Help — Displays the following options:

  • xxx Help (where xxx is the name of the page, editor, or tab) — Dynamically changes to display the help topic for the current page, editor, or tab.

  • Help Contents — Displays a cascading menu that provides options that link to the tables of contents for Oracle BI EE, BI Publisher, and Marketing.

  • Documentation — Displays the documentation library for Oracle BI EE.

  • OTN — Displays the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Technology Center page on the OTN.

  • About Oracle BI EE — Displays a dialog identifying the Oracle BI EE version and copyright information.

• Sign Out — Signs you out of Oracle BI EE.

• Alerts — Available only if one or more alerts have been generated for you. Displays the "Alerts dialog," where you can manage your alerts. An alert is a notification that is generated by an agent that delivers personalized and actionable content to specified recipients and to subscribers to the agent.

• Home — Displays the Home page. For information about the Home page, see "What Is the Oracle BI EE Home Page?"

• Catalog — Displays the "Catalog page," where you can locate objects in the catalog and perform tasks specific to those objects.

• Favorites — Displays your favorite objects and any categories that you created to organize your favorite objects. Also displays the Manage Favorites link that you can click to access the "Manage Favorites dialog," where you can create and manage categories to organize your favorites. For more information about favorites, see "What Are Favorites?"

• Dashboards — Contains links to all dashboards that are stored within the Dashboards sub-folder of the user's folder or any shared folder. Note that dashboards not saved to the Dashboards sub-folders are not displayed from the global header's Dashboards list).

• New — Displays a list of the objects that you can create. To create an object, select it from the list. The appropriate dialog or editor is displayed for you to create the object.

• Open — Displays the following options:

  • Open — Displays the "Open dialog," where you can select the object with which you want to work.

  • Recent objects — Displays a list of the objects that you have recently viewed, created, or updated. You can use this list to select an object with which you want to work.

  • Most Popular objects — Displays a list of the objects that are accessed the most often by the users that are assigned to the groups to which you belong. You can use this list to select an object with which you want to work.

• Signed In As username — (where username is the user name that your current session is using) Displays the following options:

  • My Account — Displays the "My Account dialog," where you can specify your preferences, such as time zone, delivery devices, and delivery profile. For information about setting preferences, see "Setting Preferences."

  • Act As — Available only if your organization has enabled this functionality and you have been granted the appropriate permissions. Enables you to act as another user. For information, see "Acting for Other Users."