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Rittman Mead BI Forum Atlanta, GA
May 16th
Today is my first day at the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Atlanta, GA.
My ‘Ignite-style’ presentation on Groups, Roles and Issues went pretty well. I think… 
Great sessions, great insight from Oracle Corp and listening to Stewart Bryson (@stewartbryson) is always a good thing to do !
Rittman Mead BI Forum 2012
Mar 9th
This years BI forum (#biforum) is open for registration!
All information on topics, speakers and locations can be found here:
http://www.rittmanmead.com/biforum2012/
Adding new columns to existing views
Feb 27th
In OBI 11.1.1.6, columns that are added afterwards to an analysis with existing (table-)views are automatically added to these views. This is the default behavior, where in 11.1.1.5, existing views needed to be edited to include the new columns. This can be changed under the Analysis Properties button: More >
First attempt installing OBIEE 11.1.1.6
Feb 24th
Oracle released the 11.1.1.6 version of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite just this week. Although on a skiing holiday, I could not resist the urge to download it and install it. The Repository Creation Untility is still there. Please be sure to use the 11.1.1.6 version of the RCU as well ! After kicking off the installer and choosing the Simple Install option, everything is done for you. It’s smooth as silk. Unfortunately, the Internal Server Error page is still shown right after the initial startup. But F5-ing after a while shows the well-known login screen. Curious as I am, I wanted to check out the Sample Application. But unfortunately, I ended up with this error message: More >
Renaming Views in OBIEE 11.1.1.6
Feb 24th
Up until version 11.1.1.6, it was not possible to provide custom names for views.
Now we can ! :
Press the red-bracketed button and rename the view !
More >
Update on strange security behaviour
Dec 1st
An update, as promised…
Over and over again, this issue is reproducable.
So get rid of underscores and numbers in Application Roles’ names and your life will be much more pleasant !
Thanks to everyone in my team (@bifacts, @bvdh80, Cindy and Marcel) for your valuable input in resolving this issue !
strange security behaviour
Nov 30th
Dear community,
I’m writing this because I am facing a serious issue in OBI 11g (11.1.1.5) and I can’t seem to pinpoint the exact problem. I hope you can share your thoughts with me in order to come up with a solution. The situation is as follows: There seems to be a mismatch between the Application Roles assigned to a user and the way they are translated onto the ACL’s in the webcatalog. I use Weblogic’s default Authenticator. Users sit in a group and for every group, there is a corresponding Application Role.
For instance: More >
OBIEE 11.1.1.3 and 11.1.1.5: different approach to AGO function
Sep 15th
Hi again.
After spending some time on the Time Hierarchy in 11.1.1.5 I found it useful to mention that it now is possible to use the AGO function in the BMM layer whilst the underlying logical facttable has multiple sources on different grains.
What I mean is the following:
store non-OBIEE objects in the catalog
Sep 14th
Thanks to John Minkjan (obiee101.blogspot.com) I was able to disclose (and secure) non-OBIEE content on a dashboard.
Upgrade OBI 11.1.1.3 to 11.1.1.5 findings
Aug 11th
Well,
