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Configuring and Managing Analyses and Dashboards 18-7 Before you begin this procedure, ensure that you are familiar with the information in Section 3.4, Using a Text Editor to Update Configuration Settings. To manually edit the settings that change the display of graphs and gauges: 1. Open the instanceconfig.xml file for editing, as described in Section 3.6, Where Are Configuration Files Located? 2. Search for the Charts sections, in which you must add the elements that are described in Table 18–2 . 3. Include the elements and their ancestor elements as appropriate, as shown in the following example: ServerInstance Views Charts EmbedFontsTrueEmbedFonts SectionSliderDefault5SectionSliderDefault SectionSliderLimit10SectionSliderLimit DefaultWebImageTypepngDefaultWebImageType FlashCodeBase\\CORPORATE\Download\FlashFlashCodeBase FlashCLSIDE38CDB6E-BA6D-21CF-96B8-432553540000FlashCLSID Charts Views ServerInstance 4. Save your changes and close the file. 5. Restart Oracle Business Intelligence. Table 18–2 Common Elements for Manually Configuring Graphs and Gauges Element Description Default Value EmbedFonts See Section 18.3.2.1, Configuring Fonts for Graphs for details. False DefaultWebImageTy pe Specifies the default type for rendering an image when a format has not been specified in the URL or in the XML file for the view. Valid values are flash, png, and svg. The svg value is not supported in this release, so flash is used if svg is specified. flash SectionSliderDefault Specifies the default number of values that can be displayed on a section slider bar. A section slider displays members of one or more attribute or hierarchical columns as values on a rectangular bar and provides mechanisms to select a value. For more information about defining section sliders in graphs and gauges, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. 5 SectionSliderLimit Specifies the maximum number of values that can be displayed on a section slider bar. 10 18-8 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

18.3.2.1 Configuring Fonts for Graphs

You can do one or both of the following tasks to configuring fonts for graphs: ■ Set the embed fonts element ■ Deliver font files for printing

18.3.2.1.1 Setting the Embed Fonts Element By default, graphs rely on users to have the

appropriate device fonts installed on their system to display multilingual text in the graphs. When users enable rotation on O1 axis labels, the graphs can look unattractive at certain angles. The labels appear obscured without any anti-aliasing. You can set the EmbedFonts element to True to specify the use of embedded fonts instead of device fonts, which resolves this display issue. Be aware that the use of embedded fonts can cause a loss of fidelity. Whenever end users select fonts, they see the Oracle-licensed Albany WT plain fonts by default. Because the graphing engine does not provide embedded fonts for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean locales, users with those locales might obtain unattractive results for label rotation.

18.3.2.1.2 Delivering Font Files for Printing If you plan to print graphs in bi-directional

languages to PDF or graphs in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean to PNG images, then you must deliver required font files .TTF as follows: ■ To print graphs in bi-directional languages to PDF, you must deliver the Albany family of fonts to this Java Run-time Environment JRE directory: FlashCodeBase Specifies the name of the source for downloading the Flash plug-in. The default download source for the Flash plug-in is the vendors Web site. In some organizations, users are instructed to download the latest Flash software from a corporate location instead of the vendors Web site. You can modify the setting to point to another location that holds the Flash code base. Then, when users view a graph and a newer version of the Flash software is available on the corporate server, they can be prompted to download the newer version. vendors Web site FlashCLSID Specifies a custom global identifier clsid property for downloading Flash. After modifying the Flash download directory using the FlashCodeBase element, you can enable a download prompt by creating a new classID for the Flash ActiveX control to add a custom global identifier property. You can obtain the current global identifier property from any computer where Oracle BI Presentation Services graphing is being used. The global identifier property used by Oracle Business Intelligence is D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000. The custom global identifier property must contain the same number of characters and dashes as the global identifier used in the default Flash ActiveX control. You should test flash graphs independent of Oracle Business Intelligence to ensure that they function with the custom global identifier property. NA Table 18–2 Cont. Common Elements for Manually Configuring Graphs and Gauges Element Description Default Value