Example 3: Starting Discoverer Plus Example 4: Starting Discoverer without prompting for connection details

12-10 Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer For more information about finding out connection IDs, see Section 12.4.3, How to find out the connection ID of a connection . ■ wbk=value specifies the workbook ID of a Discoverer workbook. ■ wsk=value specifies the worksheet ID of a Discoverer worksheet. ■ qp_regionparam=value specifies a value for a parameter called regionparam. ■ In this example, MONTHLY_ANALYSIS is the workbook ID of the Monthly Analysis workbook, and 179 is the worksheet ID of the January Analysis worksheet. For more information about finding out workbook IDs and worksheet IDs, see Section 12.4.1, How to find out the unique workbook ID of a workbook and Section 12.4.2, How to find out the unique worksheet ID of a worksheet .

12.5.3 Example 3: Starting Discoverer Plus

To start Discoverer Plus, connect automatically as jchan to the Sales EUL, open a worksheet called January Analysis in a workbook called Monthly Analysis, you might use the following URL: http:host.domain:portdiscovererplus?cn=cf_a156opendbid=MONTHLY_ ANALYSISsheetid=179 Notes ■ http:host.domain:portdiscovererplus? is the Discoverer Plus URL. ■ cn=value specifies the connection ID of a Discoverer connection. For more information about finding out connection IDs, see Section 12.4.3, How to find out the connection ID of a connection . ■ opendbid=value specifies the workbook ID of a Discoverer workbook. ■ sheetid=value specifies the worksheet ID of a Discoverer worksheet. ■ In this example, MONTHLY_ANALYSIS is the workbook ID of the Monthly Analysis workbook, and 179 is the worksheet ID of the January Analysis worksheet. For more information about finding out workbook IDs and worksheet IDs, see Section 12.4.1, How to find out the unique workbook ID of a workbook and Section 12.4.2, How to find out the unique worksheet ID of a worksheet .

12.5.4 Example 4: Starting Discoverer without prompting for connection details

To start Discoverer Viewer using a connection called Sales Data that has the connection ID cf_a157, you might use the following URL: http:host.domain:portdiscovererviewer?cn=cf_a157 Notes ■ http:host.domain:portdiscovererviewer? is the Discoverer Viewer URL. ■ cn=value specifies the connection ID of a Discoverer connection. For more information about finding out connection IDs, see Section 12.4.3, How to find out the connection ID of a connection . ■ If the connection specified by cn=value is a public connection, the end user is not prompted for a password. If the connection specified by cn=value is a private connection, the end user is prompted for a password. You create public Starting Oracle BI Discoverer Using URL Parameters 12-11 connections using Oracle Enterprise Manager for more information, see Section 3.6, How to create public connections . ■ If private connections are not allowed, you can only use the connection ID of a public connection for more information, see Section 3.5, About specifying whether Discoverer end users can create their own private connections .

12.5.5 Example 5: Starting Discoverer Viewer and prompt for a password