
If you’ve organized your web catalog content into these group folders, applying security should be reasonably straightforward as you’ll assign the same permissions to all objects within each group folder. To secure access to these groups, ensure that their names correspond to your groups in the RPD or your LDAP server, and then the presentation server will assign them to the corresponding web catalog groups when the user is authenticated using the BI Server. If you followed the process above, you will have web catalog groups and corresponding group folders in which you will store their dashboards. Enable permissions and security within the web catalog.

If you like, you can store saved filters either directly in these group folders, or in a special “Filters” sub-directory under the corresponding group folder.ĥ. These group folders can then be used to hold the requests associated with each group’s dashboards.

The simplest way to create these groups is to use the Add/Edit Group function with the web-based Presentation Services Administration screen. Typically though, you will have a number of departments or functions that are using OBIEE, and so you will usually want to create web catalog “groups” and “group folders” per department or function. If you’ve got just a single user community for your system, you might create one folder per dashboard, and place all the requests used by that dashboard within that folder, keeping things simple for when you want to apply security. How you structure sub-folders under the shared folder really a question of how the system will be used. In terms of the folder structure within the web catalog, we tend to leave the users folder to itself (the Presentation Server creates a folder for each user that registers in the web catalog), the system folder to itself (the Presentation Server looks after this), and concern ourself instead with the shared folder.

Create catalog groups and folders for each area of analysis within the web catalog. You can now create reports, dashboards and so on in here, without any of the demo items from Oracle cluttering things up.Ģ.
