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Copy and send the link to other users who then can view the exact same content that you are viewing, providing they have the same permissions as you and have
access to the page.
When you create a bookmark link, the state of a dashboard page is saved in the catalog as a hidden bookmark object for the amount of time that your organization specifies.
The default is 30 days. See the administrator for the amount of time that your organization specifies. Because the state of a dashboard page is saved when you create
a bookmark link, you can continue to modify the content of the page after you create the link.
What Are Prompted Links?
A prompted link captures the path to a dashboard page and a simplified presentation of the dashboard prompts, for example:
...Action=Navigatecol1=Products.Colorval1=Armory+Clearcol2=Periods.Month op2=gtval2=050119982012:00:0020AM
When you create a prompted link, you can manually or programmatically manipulate the link, such as by adding different values for the prompts.
What Is the Syntax for a Prompted Link?
The prompted link syntax is as follows: Content Path, Action=Navigate, Column1 col1, Operator1 op1, Values1 val1,
Column2 col2, Operator2 op2, Values2 val2… When manipulating this syntax:
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Use plus signs to separate values.
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Use the same operators as those for the Go URL. For a list of these operators, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Integrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise
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Optionally omit the operator parameter for equal eq.
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Optionally omit the double quotes if there are no white spaces inside the values.
Creating Links to Dashboard Pages
To create a link to a dashboard page: 1.
Open the dashboard in which you want to create a link to a dashboard page. For information, see
Opening and Using Dashboards .
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Navigate to the page for which you want to create a link.
3. Click the Page Options toolbar button on the dashboard page and:
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To create a bookmark link, select Create Bookmark Link.
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To create a prompted link, select Create Prompted Link.
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The link is displayed in the Address Bar of the browser. If the link is a:
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Bookmark link, then you can save the it as a bookmark or copy and send it to other users.
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Prompted link, then you can manually or programmatically manipulate the link.
Working with Briefing Books
If your organization licensed Oracle BI Briefing Books, then you can work with briefing books.
The following topics explain what briefing books are and how you work with them:
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What Are Briefing Books?
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Adding Content to New or Existing Briefing Books
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Editing Briefing Books
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Downloading Briefing Books
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Adding a List of Briefing Books to a Dashboard Page
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Using Agents to Deliver Briefing Books
What Are Briefing Books?
A briefing book is a collection of static or updatable snapshots of dashboard pages, individual analyses, and BI Publisher reports.
You can:
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Add the content of dashboard pages including pages that contain BI Publisher reports or individual analyses to new or existing briefing books. See
Adding Content to New or Existing Briefing Books
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Edit briefing books to reorder content, delete content, and change the content type, navigation link properties, and content description. See
Editing Briefing Books .
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Download briefing books in PDF or MHTML format for printing and viewing. See Downloading Briefing Books
. The PDF version of a briefing book contains an automatically generated table of
contents. For information about the table of contents, see About the Table of
Contents in a PDF Version of a Briefing Book .
Note: The administrator can control the display of the Create
Bookmark Link and Create Prompted Link options. For information,
see Configuring Links to Dashboard Pages in Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence
Enterprise Edition.
If you drill in an analysis that has been set to replace the dashboard with the new results rather than show the new results directly in the
dashboard, then the Create Bookmark Link option is displayed as a link below the new results rather than as an option on the Page
Options menu. To specify how drilling works in an analysis, you use the Drill in Place option on the Properties menu for a section. For
more information, see
Properties Buttons for Objects .
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Add a list of briefing books to a dashboard page. See Adding a List of Briefing
Books to a Dashboard Page .
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Update, schedule, and deliver briefing books using agents, if your organization licensed Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers. See
Using Agents to Deliver Briefing Books
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About the Table of Contents in a PDF Version of a Briefing Book
The PDF version of a briefing book contains a table of contents that is automatically generated. It contains an entry for each dashboard page, analysis, and report in the
briefing book. Each of these entries includes a time stamp and the page number within the PDF file. The time stamp value depends on how the content was saved to the
briefing book. If the content was saved as updatable, then the time stamp is current. If the content was saved as a snapshot, then the time stamp is the time of the snapshot.
Indented beneath each entry for a dashboard page are any briefing book links included on that page, up to a maximum of nine links. These entries do not include
timestamps. For example:
Table of Contents My Dashboard Page 7112008 9:15:20 AM . . . . . .1
Years to Dollars Dashboard . . . . . . . . . .2 The administrator can modify the template for the table of contents so that the table of
contents that is generated in your briefing books might have a different look.
For more information about including BI Publisher reports with briefing books, see About Briefing Books and Printing BI Publisher Reports
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Adding Content to New or Existing Briefing Books
You can add the content of dashboard pages including pages that contain BI Publisher reports or individual analyses to briefing books. You can add the content to existing
briefing books or to new briefing books that you create.
To add content to a new or existing briefing book: 1.
Open the dashboard that contains the content to add to a briefing book. For information, see
Opening and Using Dashboards .
2.
Navigate to the page to add or that contains the analysis to add.
3.
Perform one of the following actions:
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To add the contents of the dashboard page to a briefing book, click the Page Options
toolbar button on the dashboard page and select Add To Briefing Book
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Note: The table of contents is always generated in English. Other
languages are not supported. Therefore, you might want to translate the tables of contents that are generated in briefing books.
Note: The Add to Briefing Book option is not available on an empty
dashboard page or if the Show Add to Briefing Book box in the
Dashboard Properties dialog has not been selected for the page.
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To add the results of an individual analysis to a briefing book, locate the analysis on the dashboard and click the Add to Briefing Book link.
The Save Briefing Book Content dialog
is displayed.
4. Click Browse to display the
