Click OK. Click the Subscribe to RSS feed button located to the left of the Clear All

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c. Make your edits and click OK to return to the My Account dialog: Deliver

Options tab.

5. Click OK.

Accessing and Managing Your Alerts You can access a list of your alerts. The list shows the name of each alert along with its delivery date and time, and number of occurrences. Using this list, you can: ■ View the content for an alert. ■ Clear an alert and all its occurrences. ■ Edit the agent that generated the alert, if you have permission to modify the agent. ■ Run the agent that generated the alert, if you have permission to execute the agent. ■ Subscribe to the Oracle BI Alerts feed. See Subscribing to an RSS Feed for Alerts . ■ Clear all your alerts and all their occurrences. For more information about alerts, see What Are Alerts? To access and manage your alerts: 1. In the global header, click Alerts. The Alerts dialog is displayed. 2. View and manage your alerts as needed. You can also access and manage your alerts from the Alerts section on the Home page . Subscribing to an RSS Feed for Alerts You can receive alerts by way of an RSS 2.0 compatible reader that supports HTTP basic authentication. However, if Oracle BI Presentation Services uses the HTTPS protocol, then the RSS reader that you use must also support the HTTPS protocol. To subscribe to an RSS Feed for alerts, you must have been granted the Access to RSS Feeds privilege by the administrator. To subscribe to an RSS feed for alerts: 1. Click the Alerts link to display the Alerts dialog .

2. Click the Subscribe to RSS feed button located to the left of the Clear All

button. The browsers page to subscribe to an RSS feed is displayed. 3. Subscribe to the Oracle BI Alerts following the instructions on the browsers page. 8-14 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 9 Working with Conditions 9-1 9 Working with Conditions This chapter describes conditions and explains how you work with them. It contains the following topics: ■ What Are Conditions? ■ For What Do I Use Conditions? ■ What Are the Elements of a Condition? ■ What Are Named Conditions? ■ What Are Inline Conditions? ■ Who Creates Conditions? ■ Creating Named Conditions ■ Using Conditions to Determine Whether Agents Deliver Their Content or Execute Their Actions ■ Using Conditions to Determine Whether Action Links Are Displayed in Dashboard Pages ■ Using Conditions to Determine Whether Sections Are Displayed in Dashboard Pages ■ Specifying the Settings for Conditions ■ Editing Named Conditions ■ Editing, Customizing, Testing, Saving, and Disabling Conditions Used in Agents ■ Editing, Testing, Saving, and Removing Conditions Used in Action Links in Dashboard Pages ■ Editing, Testing, Saving, and Removing Conditions Used in Sections in Dashboard Pages What Are Conditions? Conditions are objects that return a single Boolean value based on the evaluation of an analysis or of a Key Performance Indicator KPI. What a condition evaluates depends on whether it is based on an analysis or on a KPI, as follows: ■ For an analysis, it evaluates the row count of the analysis. ■ For a KPI, it evaluates the status of the KPI. 9-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition For example, a condition might evaluate whether the results of an analysis return a number of rows greater than 0: ■ If the analysis returns at least one row, then the condition evaluates to true. ■ If the analysis does not return any rows, then the condition evaluates to false. For What Do I Use Conditions? You use conditions to determine whether: ■ Agents deliver their content and execute their actions ■ Actions links which when clicked run actions are displayed in dashboard pages ■ Sections and their content are displayed in dashboard pages For example, a sales manager wants to deliver a Monthly Sales Report to his direct reports only when sales drop below 2 million. You might create a condition that is based on an analysis that shows sales that are below 2 million and add it to an agent whose delivery content is the Monthly Sales Report. When the condition evaluates to true that is, the analysis contains rows where sales are below 2 million, the agent is triggered to deliver the Monthly Sales Report. You can also use a different kind of condition to determine whether action links are enabled in analyses. For information, see About Conditionally Enabling Actions Added to Analyses . What Are the Elements of a Condition? A condition consists of the following elements: ■ An analysis or KPI. ■ The criteria to use when evaluating the condition: – For an analysis, the criteria is a row count and an operator to apply to the row count; for example, the row count equals 100. – For a KPI, the criteria is a KPI status, for example, the KPI status is OK. ■ Values for any prompted filters that are associated with the analysis or values for KPI dimensions that were set to Set in watchlist in the KPI. What Are Named Conditions? A named condition is a condition that you define and then save by name in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog so that you can reuse it in agents and dashboard pages. You create a named condition when you create a new condition from the: ■ New menu in the global header by selecting Condition under Analysis and Interactive Reporting ■ Home page by clicking the More link under Analysis and Interactive Reporting in the Create area and selecting Condition You also create a named condition from the Agent editor: Condition tab when you save an inline condition to the catalog. For information on inline conditions, see What Are Inline Conditions? Working with Conditions 9-3 What Are Inline Conditions? An inline condition is a condition that you define at the point of use and do not save by name in the catalog. Instead it is saved as part of the dashboard page or agent. An inline condition is automatically deleted when the dashboard page or agent that contains it is deleted. This simplifies catalog management for conditions that make sense only within particular Oracle BI content. You can create an inline condition when you: ■ Create or edit an agent and specify in the Agent editor: Condition tab that the agent is to deliver its content and run associated actions conditionally. See Using Conditions to Determine Whether Agents Deliver Their Content or Execute Their Actions . For information on creating agents, see Creating Agents . ■ Add an action link to a dashboard page and specify that the action link is to be displayed conditionally. See Using Conditions to Determine Whether Action Links Are Displayed in Dashboard Pages . For information about adding action links to dashboard pages, see About Adding Actions to Dashboard Pages . ■ Add a section to a dashboard page and specify that the section is to be displayed conditionally. See Using Conditions to Determine Whether Sections Are Displayed in Dashboard Pages . For information about adding sections to dashboard pages, see Adding Content to Dashboards . Who Creates Conditions? Generally: ■ Administrators create the named conditions for an organization, which are then used by content designers providing they have the appropriate permissions to the conditions or the folders in which the conditions are saved as they create dashboards and agents. The ability to create or edit named conditions is controlled by the Create Conditions privilege, which is managed by the administrator. ■ Content designers create inline conditions. For information about privileges, see Managing Presentation Services Privileges in Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. For information about permissions, see Chapter 13, Managing Objects in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. Creating Named Conditions You can create named conditions that you can reuse in agents and dashboard pages. See What Are Named Conditions? To create a named condition: 1. In the global header, click New and then select Condition. The New Condition dialog is displayed. 9-4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 2. Complete the New Condition dialog. For more information, see Specifying the Settings for Conditions . Using Conditions to Determine Whether Agents Deliver Their Content or Execute Their Actions You can use conditions to determine whether agents deliver their content or execute their actions. For information on agents, see Chapter 8, Delivering Content. To use a condition to determine whether an agent delivers its content or executes its actions: 1. Edit the agent. 2. Click the Agent editor: Condition tab .

3. Select the Use a condition box.