Example 5: Starting Discoverer Viewer and prompt for a password Example 6: Starting Discoverer Plus OLAP Example 7: Starting Discoverer Plus and opening a scheduled workbook

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

In this example, you want end users to be prompted to specify a password before they can access Discoverer. You therefore specify a user name, database, and EUL on the URL. To start Discoverer Viewer, connect automatically as video5, and open a worksheet called January Analysis in a workbook called Monthly Analysis, you might use the following URL: http:host.domain:portdiscovererviewer?us=video5db=db1eul=VIDEO5 wbk=MONTHLY_ANALYSISwsk=179 Notes ■ http:host.domain:portdiscovererviewer? is the Discoverer Viewer URL. ■ us=value specifies the database user name. ■ db=value specifies the database. ■ eul=value specifies the End User Layer EUL. ■ wbk=value specifies the workbook ID of a Discoverer workbook. ■ wsk=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 .

12.5.6 Example 6: Starting Discoverer Plus OLAP

To start Discoverer Plus OLAP and display the login page, you might use the following URL: http:host.domain:portdiscovererplus?db=host1:1521:ora925 Notes ■ http:host.domain:portdiscovererplus? is the Discoverer Plus and Plus OLAP URL. ■ db=host1:1521:ora925 specifies the host name that is, host1, port number that is, 1521, and SID that is, ora925. For more information about URL parameters for Discoverer Plus OLAP, see Chapter 5, Configuring Discoverer Plus OLAP .

12.5.7 Example 7: Starting Discoverer Plus and opening a scheduled workbook

To start Discoverer Plus, connect automatically as jchan to the Sales EUL, and open a scheduled workbook, you might use the following URL: 12-12 Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer http:host.domain:portdiscovererplus?cn=cf_a156opendbid=SALES_ ANALYSIS2sheetid=42workbooksource=Scheduled 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 scheduled workbook. ■ sheetid=value specifies the worksheet ID of a Discoverer scheduled worksheet. ■ workbooksource=Scheduled identifies the workbook as scheduled.

12.5.8 Example 8: Starting Discoverer Viewer and opening a scheduled workbook results set