Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Intended Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions
• JGoodies License Agreement

1 Introducing OracleBI Discoverer and OracleAS Portal

• What is Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer?
• What is a Discoverer workbook?
• What is Oracle Application Server Portal?
• What are the different types of Discoverer portlet?
• About the Discoverer Worksheet portlet
• About the Discoverer Gauges portlet
• About the Discoverer List of Worksheets portlet
• About integrating Discoverer portlets in OracleAS Portal pages
• What are Discoverer connections and why do I need to know about them?

2 Setting up Discoverer Portlet Provider in OracleAS Portal

• What are the prerequisite tasks and which roles are involved for publishing Discoverer portlets in OracleAS Portal?
• How to publish Discoverer portlets in OracleAS Portal
• An overview of registering Discoverer Portlet Provider with OracleAS Portal
• How to register Discoverer Portlet Provider with OracleAS Portal
• How to edit Discoverer Portlet Provider after it has been registered with OracleAS Portal
• Notes about changing the default performance settings for Discoverer
• How to upgrade a 9.0.4 metadata repository to work with Discoverer Portlet Provider Version 10.1.2 and Oracle Portal 10.1.2
• How to upgrade just the OracleBI Discoverer part of a Metadata Repository
• About copying Discoverer portlets from one Oracle Business Intelligence installation to another
• How to copy Discoverer portlets from one Oracle Business Intelligence installation to another
• How to log in to OracleAS Portal
• How to export Discoverer portlets to a transport set
• How to obtain the PORTAL login password
• How to create a dump (*.dmp) file to copy the Discoverer portlets
• How to extract a transport set from a dump (*.dmp) file
• How to import a transport set into OracleAS Portal
• How to copy Discoverer connections from one Oracle Business Intelligence installation to another
• How to obtain the ORASSO login password
• How to export Discoverer connections
• How to import Discoverer connections

3 Authoring OracleAS Portal Pages with Discoverer Portlets

• Pre-requisites for publishing Discoverer worksheets in OracleAS Portal
• How to connect to OracleAS Portal and display the Add Portlets page
• How to add a Discoverer List of Worksheets portlet to an OracleAS Portal page
• How to add a Discoverer Worksheet portlet to an OracleAS Portal page
• How to add a Discoverer Gauges portlet to an OracleAS Portal page
• How to edit a Discoverer portlet
• How to customize a Discoverer portlet using Discoverer Portlet Provider
• How to customize the Discoverer worksheet shown in a portlet in Viewer, using the Analyze link
• Notes about resizing graphs in Discoverer Worksheet portlets
• Notes about using worksheet parameters in Discoverer portlets
• How to map worksheet parameters to Page Parameters in OracleAS Portal
• How to map worksheet parameters to Generic Page Parameters
• How to create a Page Parameter
• How to map a Generic Page Parameter to a Page Parameter
• How to add Simple Parameter Form portlets to an OracleAS Portal page
• Notes about publishing Discoverer content in portlets
• About choosing database connections for Discoverer portlets
• About choosing refresh options for Discoverer portlets
• About Discoverer connections and OracleAS Single Sign-On

4 Using Discoverer Portlets in OracleAS Portal

• About using OracleAS Portal as a personalization framework for Discoverer

Index