RPD Using a Simple Python Script to Mass-Produce RPD Objects Introduction Doing repetitive tasks as a developer can be the bain of your existence, sometimes you get a ticket on a project where you have one of two options; Either bite the bullet and create those 50 aliases for the time dimension, logical tables, and hierarchies…. or come up with
Oracle Analytics Oracle Model Administration Tool Available on Linux and macOS The Model Administration Tool is a fundamental component of the Oracle Analytics suite that enables developers to create and manage the metadata used in analyses, reports and workbooks. So far the tool has been available only on Windows platforms, but today is a date to be remembered: Oracle finally released
obiee Enabling Concurrent OBIEE RPD Development - for free One of the most common and long standing problems with developing in OBIEE is the problem of multiple developers working on the RPD at the same time. This blog explains the problem and explores the solution that we’ve developed and have been successfully using at clients over the last
obiee Web-Based RPD Upload and Download for OBIEE 12c I was among the people who were dancing and singing after finding out some of the OBIEE 12c new features. The feature I liked the most was a scripted deploy of an RPD file from a developer’s computer. I hate to make dozens of clicks for every deploy of
Technical OBIEE 12c - Repository Password Corruption Issue Here at Rittman Mead we’ve been working with OBIEE 12c for some time now, as part of the beta programme and more recently with clients looking to get the most out an upgrade to OBIEE 12c [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2016/01/obiee12c-three-months-in-whats-the-verdict/]. We’ve also been hard
Technical Using the BI Server Metadata Web Service for Automated RPD Modifications A little-known new feature of OBIEE 11g is a web service interface to the BI Server. Called the “BI Server Metadata Web Service [https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/bi.1111/e16364/bi_server_web_services.htm#BIEIT3235] ” it gives a route into making calls into the BI Server
Technical Concurrent RPD Development in OBIEE OBIEE is a well established product, having been around in various incarnations for well over a decade [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/a-potted-history-of-oracle-bi-suite-enterprise-edition/]. The latest version, OBIEE 11g, was released 3.5 years ago, and there are mutterings of OBIEE 12c already [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/
Oracle BI Suite EE MDS XML versus MUDE Part 4: Simple Multi-Branch Development After getting our MDS XML repository ready for development in the last post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/07/mds-xml3/], I am ready to demonstrate what multi-user development without MUDE would look like using Git as our version control system (VCS). Let me apologize for the slightly different username
Oracle BI Suite EE MDS XML versus MUDE Part 3: Configuring MDS XML with Git In the previous installment of this series [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/06/mds-xml2/], I gave an overview of MUDE (multi-user development environment), and described it's strengths and weaknesses, hopefully presenting a fair assessment on both sides. For a recap, here are three properties that I think
Oracle BI Suite EE MDS XML versus MUDE Part 2: What is MUDE? Mark Rittman once joked during a presentation on OBIEE and SCM that "MUDE" (multiuser development environment) was the closest thing to a dirty word in the OBIEE documentation. I know many people who feel that way... some justified, some perhaps not, as MUDE has certainly gotten better in
