Introduction to OBIEE:

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Introduction to OBIEE: Learning to Access, Navigate, and Find Data in the SWIFT Data WarehouseLesson 8: Printing and Exporting an OBIEE Analysis

This course, Introduction to OBIEE, provides a high-level overview of the basic elements and navigation in OBIEE, the SWIFT Data Warehouse query and reporting tool.

OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) provides State of Minnesota agencies the ability to retrieve and present financial and human resources data from the SWIFT Data Warehouse in a variety of formats including queries, reports and dashboards. OBIEE delivers a user-friendly business intelligence platform that makes it simple to access data, whether the user is running pre-built queries and reports or creating them from the ground up.

This course is recorded as a PowerPoint presentation, allowing you to review it at your own pace. Click your mouse or use your keyboard arrow keys to advance slides. Red boxes shown in demonstrations are intended to simulate mouse clicks in OBIEE.

NOTE: Many of the screenshots in this course were recorded in a demonstration environment. Data displayed in the examples provided does not reflect actual State of Minnesota data.

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Lesson 8: Printing and Exporting an OBIEE Analysis

OBIEE provides several simple options for printing and exporting an analysis. The ability to export an analysis to another application such as Microsoft Excel provides flexibility for working with the data that you retrieve from the SWIFT Data Warehouse.

We’ll start the lesson by browsing the OBIEE Catalog to find and open an analysis.

The lesson will introduce:

•The various options and instructions for printing an analysis, either electronically or on paper

•The various options and instructions for exporting an analysis

Note: Data presented in this demonstration does not reflect actual state of Minnesota data.

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Let’s start by finding an analysis.

As we’ve seen, there are several methods for finding an analysis.

This time, let’s browse the Catalog to find an analysis within My Folders called Rev by Region.


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Notice that the My Folders folder is currently selected (highlighted in blue).


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The contents of the selected folder are displayed to the right in the Catalog area.


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Let’s view the contents of the Financials folder.


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Click its Expand link.


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Here is the analysis we’d like to open: Product Rev by Region.


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Click the Open link under the Product Rev by Region analysis.


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The analysis, which is based on a query against the SWIFT Data Warehouse, runs and the results are displayed.

The Product Rev by Region analysis displays in a compound layout with a table view on top and a graph view on the bottom (this time in the form of a pie chart.)

Let’s check out the Printing options.


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Notice the Print link at the bottom of the analysis.


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Click the Print link.


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You have two printing options: You may print to a printable PDF file or HTML document.

Let’s check these out.

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Click Printable PDF.


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The analysis is rendered as a PDF document, which opens in a separate browser window.


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You could print this document by clicking the PDF’s Print button.


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Let’s close this PDF document and return to the analysis.

Click the Close Tab button for this window.


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Click the Print link.


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This time, click Printable HTML.


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The Printable HTML option displays the analysis as it would appear on a web page. It opens in a separate browser window.


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If you wanted to print, you could click the browser window’s Print Icon, or click File, Print.


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Let’s close this HTML view and return to the analysis.

Click the Close Tab button for this window.


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A nice feature of OBIEE is the ability to export data to other applications. This provides lots of flexibility for working with the data that you retrieve from the SWIFT Data Warehouse.

Let’s check out the export options next.


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Click the Export link at the bottom of the analysis.


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You’re presented with several different options for exporting the results of the analysis.

Let’s check a couple of these out.


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Click PDF


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A File Download box opens with options to Open or Save the file as a PDF document.

Let’s open it.


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Click the Open button.


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Your analysis is presented as a PDF file using Adobe Reader software.


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Close the Adobe Reader.


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Let’s export the analysis to Microsoft Excel.


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Click Excel 2003+


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A File Download box opens with options to Open or Save the file as a Microsoft Excel Worksheet.

Let’s open it.


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Click the Open button.


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The analysis, including both the table view and graph view opens in a Microsoft Excel Workbook.

You can use the functions available in Microsoft Excel to change the presentation of the data to meet your needs.


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For example, you could delete the graph view, add new calculated columns, and re-format the data.

You could then save the spreadsheet.


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Close the Excel workbook.


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Let’s take a look at some other export options.


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You may need to export data for a purpose that requires a specific type of data format.

Click the Data link.


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Three separate options are provided for exporting the data from the analysis.

Let’s take a look at those.


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The CSV Format export provides the results of the analysis in an Excel spreadsheet.

This format provides the data in a comma-separated list of values in plain-text form.


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The Tab delimited Format export also provides the results of the analysis in an Excel spreadsheet.

In this format, each record in the table is presented as one line with tab separators between the values.


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The XML Format export provides the results of the analysis in a new browser window.

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a language that is used to structure, store, and transport information. It is presented with built-in tags.


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This concludes our discussion of printing and exporting an OBIEE analysis.


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