tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16995409567880373802024-03-05T18:29:52.220-05:00Adashek EPMUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-21593917092722961922019-09-22T10:38:00.002-04:002019-09-22T10:38:53.635-04:00OAC Sandbox - Your Name in Lights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is always fun to see your name in lights!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See your name here -> <a href="https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/OACsandbox/oacsandbox.html" target="_blank">Oracle DV canvas</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was able to find a data set that would allow me to do just that, see your name among the USA census data for first names at birth all the way back to 1910!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Beyond the top 1000 names</b> - https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found it interesting that there were so babies named 'baby*' and over 90% of them over an approx. 20 year span from 1986 to 2006</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was also interesting to take a look at the trend using the custom Butterfly Viz as I was particularly trying to see if there really was a baby boom. This is what I found. Id does appear that there was a baby boom in the 1960s</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, the fun part was getting to see where my name was in the data and determine if there were any trends, etc.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Filter: Gary</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And to use the Grid Heat map to look into my name over time by state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gary looks like a popular name in the 1950s particularly in CA and NY.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interesting that the name wasn't 'nation-wide' until 1941 and started to taper off in the 1980s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again, here is the link to start exploring the OAC Sandbox</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And in case you needed more reason to there is another canvas that is available in the Sandbox -> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Real Time Sandbox Usage'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check out the usage of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the USA census names canvas over the last 30 days!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-35949499020252595582019-05-15T14:31:00.002-04:002019-05-15T14:53:52.606-04:00Available to download - Oracle Data Visualization Custom PLUGIN Butterfly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Excited to announce that a 3rd custom PLUGIN I have been working on is available to download and start using now - <a href="https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/data-visualization/extensions.html" target="_blank">available on</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or <a href="https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/data-visualization/extensions.html" target="_blank">download here</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Name of Viz: <b>Butterfly Chart</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The Butterfly chart, also sometimes known as a tornado bar chart allows to compare 2 data sets side-by-side.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">This provides a quick analysis of variances and is a simple comparison chart.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-73457277747894838982019-04-20T15:00:00.002-04:002019-04-20T15:01:16.704-04:00New Version Oracle Data Visualization Desktop 12c (12.2.5.2.0)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-56087410187494814132019-03-23T07:46:00.000-04:002019-03-23T07:46:12.131-04:00Available to download - Oracle Data Visualization Custom PLUGIN Vertical Waterfall<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Excited to announce that a 2nd custom PLUGIN I have been working on is available to download and start using now - available on</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Oracle Analytics Library: https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/data-visualization/extensions.html</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or </span><a href="https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/data-visualization/extensions.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">download here</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Name: Vertical Waterfall</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Vertical Waterfall is the βtippedβ (top-to-bottom) version of what many know as the traditional horizontal (left-to-right) Waterfall chart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By rotating the visualization 90 degrees clockwise, this allows for easy to read text along the y-axis spine of the visualization.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Happy New Year!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And a start to #MakeoverMonday (MM) in 2019</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is the set of data to take a look at.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Data: http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/data/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Year: 2019</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Week: 01</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Date: Dec 31</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Data: <a href="https://data.world/makeovermonday/2019w1">data.world</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Source Article Visualization:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://nhltoseattle.com/2013/02/10/nhl-attendance-through-feb-9th/">NHL Attendance</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Data Source: <a href="http://www.espn.com/nhl/attendance/_/year/2018">ESPN</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Original Visualization:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">NHL attendance continues to grow</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Article: <a href="https://nhltoseattle.com/2013/02/10/nhl-attendance-through-feb-9th/">NHL to Seattle</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is what I did to start to make this better.</span></span><br />
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I did notice that the overall Total Attendance starting from the 2000-01 season has gone up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That can be seen from this simple Line chart that I created.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Total NHL Attendance did go up from 40.8M to 44.3M</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The original data set did not include the 2004-05 season.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I added that to the data in order to show a full and proper picture of the seasons over time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can see the line chart drop to 0 that season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is another drop below 30M in the 2012-13 season since there were only 48-games played in that shortened season. 25.5M that season was the Total Attendance and with a simple ratio formula would have kept the Total Attendance rising to just below 43.6M, an Attendance mark that wouldn't be reached and surpassed until the 2017-18 season! π³</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stacked Bar with Color by Team gave me a view that there was an extra team, welcome to the league <span style="color: orange;"><b>Vegas</b></span>, in the NHL that last season with a Total Attendance of 1.472M</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you simply take that off of the Total the attendance would actually be lower than the previous year of 43.050M versus the adjusted amount of 42.875M.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can see that with the Parallel Coordinates chart by adding a few filters.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Filter for showing only the 2 seasons in question as well as removing Vegas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I was able to answer the MM question for myself that with just the simple attendance totals, yes, attendnace did go up but that is not entirely fair to simply state since there was another team added to the league last year that skews the data.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I wanted to take a deeper look into the data for my favorite team, the Chicago Blackhawks. Maybe there was something interesting I could find.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I picked a few Attributes as well as Measures to start.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once I had what I wanted, I then wanted to find out what DV thought would be the best. While the multiple selections are made, Right-Click and select "Create Best Visualization", just that simple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the result was not pretty π</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looks like a mess in my opinion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Time to start making changes but leaving alone the Viz Type as Scatter (kind of). I changed the Viz type to "Scatter (Cat.)". This allowed me to group the measures together on the Y-axis and display the Seasons over time on the X-axis. This was the result.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are a few things that I noticed. It does look like the attendance all around (Total, Home & Road) was going up. But there was something else, if you look at the <b><span style="color: red;">Red</span></b> (Road) and <span style="color: #999999;"><b>Grey</b></span> (Home) attendance there is a "flip" after the 2007-08 season, meaning that the Home attendance is more than Road from that year onward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wanting to highlight this as a part of my final Viz, this was going to help be the baseline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With that, I right-clicked on the Canvas name and selected "Duplicate Canvas".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I then changed the Viz Type to "Combo" and removed the Total Attendance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can see with Lines that the trend does go up and there is a season as mentioned before that <span style="color: #999999;"><b>Home</b></span> exceeds <span style="color: red;"><b>Road</b></span> attendance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To make the data easier for the reader to distinguish this fact about the data, I made a change to the HOME #Values.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The change was to make this a Bar instead of a Line.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do do this I right-clicked on the HOME ATTENDANCE #Value in the Y-axis assignments section and selected "Bar".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the pre-final Visualization of a Combo with both Line and Bar</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In order to create the narrative of the data, I removed the Legend and added the color context to the Title, added text to let the reader know about the league labor disputes, and also added the svg image for additional #1-SVG image context to highlight when the Chicago Blackhawks </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">π </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">won the Stanley Cup! 3-times πππ</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Final Visualization was a Combo with both a Line and Bar to be able to clearly highlight the <b><span style="color: #999999;">HOME attendance Bars</span></b> rising above the <span style="color: red;"><b>ROAD Line</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Link to Tweet - </span><a href="https://twitter.com/GADASHEK/status/1081655382169276416" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">https://twitter.com/GADASHEK/status/1081655382169276416</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another week, another #MakeoverMonday (MM) set of data to take a look at.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is .. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The Data: http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/data/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Year: 2018</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Week: 52</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Date: Dec 17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Data: <a href="https://data.world/makeovermonday/2018w52">data.world</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u><a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/246963/christmas-spending-in-the-us-during-november/">Average spending on Christmas gifts in the U.S. 1999-2018</a></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The statistic depicts the results of a survey about the estimated Christmas spending of U.S. consumers from 1999 to 2018. The most recent survey revealed that U.S. consumers expected to spend approximately 794 U.S. dollars on average on Christmas gifts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The Christmas season or so called holiday season is the strongest sales period of the year for retailers. It usually commences on the Thanksgiving weekend with Black Friday being the leading sales and traffic day of the whole season, and continues to the end of January. Black Friday sales are closely followed by Super Saturday, which names the Saturday occurring before Christmas Eve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Christmas is a public holiday in the United States and is celebrated on December 25th each year. Itβs known as a big economic stimulus for many people to purchase Christmas gifts for their beloved family and friends. After Christmas and New Yearβs Eve, retail sales usually peak again in January as many people redeem their received Christmas gift cards and vouchers. The latest holiday consumer survey revealed that almost 48 percent of U.S. consumers plan to buy gift cards or gift certificates in 2016. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">During the holiday season, many retailers extend their return policy and set special shipping deadlines for guaranteed Christmas delivery in order to improve their customer-friendly service.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Region: United States</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Survey time period: November 1 to 11, 2018*</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Number of respondents: 1,037 respondents</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Age group:18 years and older</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Method of interview: Telephone interview</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Supplementary notes: * Figures from 1999 to 2017 were conducted in November of each year among equally large samples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the original chart, a line chart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As the dataset was published, it looked very simple, and assuming.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And so I thought to myself .. easy .. less than 1 hour and all in the spirit of the #MakeoverMonday!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let's take a look at my first visualization. A Bar Chart.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Easy. Simple. Created a focus data point that clearly stands out. That's it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, that's it. </span>Well, NOT SO FAST!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Something was telling me that this was too easy and not all was right with this data.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wasn't sure what, but I was determined to find out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With that, I turned to my friend GOOG and did a few searches to see what I could find. And what do you know, a dataset showed up, and just the one that I was looking for π</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Data Source: <a href="https://news.gallup.com/file/poll/244046/181024ChristmasSpending.pdf">GALLUP</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Good news was that I was able to match data point-by-data-point to the source data in our MM week 52 Christmas shopping in the US.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What I found in this data was different from what was given to us.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was a second data point for NOV-2002, 2 telephone surveys?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was a telephone survey about crime?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Where was the data for NOV-2018? Because it is not a part of this data.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This all led me to analyze the data a bit more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Using 1999 as the baseline I wanted to know how the 20 years since measured up. Not good.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Only 2 years over the last 20 were about the 1999 mark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few years we over 15% less and a single year over 25%!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The chart that I created was an Area chart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was nice, but boring to say the least.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So to give the reader more context I added a few elements.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1999 appeared to be the year that with only small 2 exceptions was far and above the other 18 years. In that, I added a lyric line from the <span style="color: purple;"><b>Prince song 1999</b></span> and made sure to add that text in his favorite color,<span style="color: purple;"><b> <a href="https://youtu.be/TvnYmWpD_T8">Purple</a></b></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Added the survey question asked via telephone to set the frame of mind that gave looking at the data over time as well as added what I thought was a catchy subtitle </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Removing all of the data points and only adding back the points that were critical for highlighting the data trend and what was important takeaways over the 20 year span</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also adding a few vector images made by Freepik from Flaticon to spruce up the overall design.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is what I posted as my Visualization. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Twitter post: https://twitter.com/GADASHEK/status/1078133461221851141</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />It has been a while, the end fo the year was certainly fast paced (heart reference)!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that gave me another dose of what I wanted to shift my passion for technology wise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, that brings me to the next adventure that I am passionate about exploring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But in fact, I want to look into the Data Visualization aspect of Oracle tech, and specifically, the product <b>Oracle Data Visualization</b> (DV) <i>{cloud}</i> or Desktop (DVD) <i>{not-cloud}</i> <a href="https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/oracle-data-visualization/downloads/oracle-data-visualization-desktop-2938957.html">download DVD here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was only as recently as this past spring when I knew something wasn't right (or left, that is an eye joke) with my left eye. And for me, the topic area of Visualization has become deeply passionate for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so that led me to start reading books, researching online, listening to podcasts, and just plain talking to people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the books that I read recently was a book called <b>#Makeover Monday</b> by the authors Andy Kriebel (vizwiz.com, <a href="http://www.theschoolofdata.co.uk/">Data School</a>, <a href="http://vizwiz.blogspot.com/search?q=makeover+monday&by-date=true">Makeover Monday</a>, <a href="http://vizwiz.blogspot.com/search?q=tableau+tip+tuesday&by-date=true">Tableau Tip Tuesday</a> and <a href="http://www.vizwiz.com/p/workout-wednesday.html">Workout Wednesday</a>. He also writes at <a href="http://datavizdoneright.com/">datavizdoneright.com</a>) and Eva Murray (blog: <a href="http://www.trimydata.com/">www.trimydata.com</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is "The Book" -> #</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Makeover Monday <a href="http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/book/">http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/book/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that brings me to the topic of what I can see as the future of many blog posts to come. Each week as the new data for the week gets published I will participate in #Makeovermonday as it will give me a chance to explore new data, get feedback about the visualizations that I create and work on being able to tell good stories about the data. Lastly, I will focus on using Oracle DV(D) as my primary tool of choice although the #MM community prefers to use Tableau but they do not make that a requirement. You could create your canvas on a napkin, literally and totally your choice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, let's get started on the first #Makeovermonday that I am participating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Data:</b> http://www.makeovermonday.co.uk/data/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Week:</b> Week 51</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Date:</b> Dec 17</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://content.tfl.gov.uk/q2-18-london-bus-safety-dashboard.pdf">London Bus Safety Performance</a> (page 3)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Data Source:</b> <a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/bus-safety-data">TFL</a> (January 2015 β June 2018)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What works and what doesn't work with this chart?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Post your alternative on the discussions page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View -- </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No definitions added for the 1 file and the 11 columns in this dataset.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now let's get into the data and see if there is a story to tell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the Data Visualization as a sum of the parts and the story that I was able to tell. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dear Abby,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am writing this letter to inform you about the bus safety,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">or lack thereof when riding the London Bus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This letter is to warn you about the <b>HIGH</b> amount of Bus accidents in Londonβs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><span style="color: red;">Westminster borough</span></b><b><span style="color: red;">!</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You are at a higher chance of being involved in an accident since you are an</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And please, whatever you do, </span><b style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">DO NOT RIDE</b><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> a bus Operated by </span><b style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><i><span style="color: red;">Metroline</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sincerely,</span><br />
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The trend shows that the number of accidents is on a constant rise and with a 95% confidence it will continue that way into the next quarter.</div>
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By Borough North, South and 5-parts - <b><i>Horizontal Bar with Focus on 1 Borough</i></b></div>
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By London Borough and the 5 Parts - <b><i>Horizontal Stacked Bar with Borough 5-Parts</i></b></div>
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PBCS .. Oracle Financial Reporting Web Studio URLs<br />
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<b>Goal:</b> <b><i>Easy to use weblink for users to click and run reports (FRs)</i></b><br />
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While working with PBCS and creating FR (Financial Reports) using the Oracle Financial Reporting Web Studio, I wanted to be able to send a simple URL to Users via email and at the same time use this URL in the Task List.<br />
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This would give them the ability to view on their mobile phone, tablet or browser directly without having to log into the app, search-dig around for the report via Reports, etc. They could simply use the URL or the Task List item!<br />
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So, this is how you would do that, easily, and with a few simple steps.<br />
These steps assume that you have <b><i>already created and saved</i></b> your Financial Report (FR)<br />
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Let's use the sample app = <b>"Vision"</b> in this case<br />
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<b>Step 1:</b> Locate your report in the Web Studio repository folder; Done<br />
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example: Vision/Plan Reports/Income Statement - Act vs Plan<br />
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<b>Step 2:</b> It is Free to use, go to <a href="https://www.urlencoder.org/" target="_blank">link</a> https://www.urlencoder.org/<br />
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<b>2.1)</b> In the box where it says "Type (or paste) here..."<br />
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<b>2.2)</b> click > ENCODE <<br />
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you then have a simply encoded the URL in the proper format<br />
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<b>2.3)</b> Copy the entire string result now encoded<br />
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In this example: Vision/Plan%20Reports/Income%20Statement%20-%20Act%20vs%20Plan<br />
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<b style="font-style: italic;">notice</b> that I needed to also encode the folder <b style="font-style: italic;">"Income Statement"</b> since there is a space in the name<br />
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It is fun to know that Workspace is still running, makes me feel like I should be looking for the ships-wheel, Ahoy Matey! .. but I digress ..<br />
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The reason that I mention Workspace is because it is needed for this next step.<br />
Your desired outcome should look like this example.<br />
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https://<your_services>.oraclecloud.com/workspace/index.jsp?module=tools.relatedcontent&repository_path=/<folder_name>/<encoded_report_name></blockquote>
Now let's break up the parts<br />
<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b>Part 1:</b> <your services><br />
example: planning-test-MyCompany.pbcs.em2<br />
<br />
<b>Part 2:</b> .oraclecloud.com/workspace/index.jsp?module=tools.relatedcontent&repository_path=/<br />
<br />
<b>Part 3:</b> <folder_name>/<br />
<b><i>part 3a:</i></b> if needed, add folder names<br />
example: Vision/Plan%20Reports/<br />
<br />
<b>Part 4:</b> <encoded_report_name><br />
example: Income%20Statement%20-%20Act%20vs%20Plan<br />
<br />
This is an example of the final result:<br />
<br />
https://planning-test-MyCompany.pbcs.em2.oraclecloud.com/workspace/index.jsp?module=tools.relatedcontent&repository_path=/Vision/Plan%20Reports/Income%20Statement%20-%20Act%20vs%20Plan<br />
<br />
You can now copy paste that URL and use it in the Task List or simply email that URL to any user that has the proper provisioning to run the report!<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-74164832715699732132018-08-06T08:23:00.003-04:002019-03-23T07:42:25.490-04:00Available to download - Oracle Data Visualization Custom PLUGIN "Elbow" Dendrogram<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Excited to announce that a custom PLUGIN I have been working on is available to download and start using now - available on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The Oracle Analytics Library: </b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/data-visualization/extensions.html</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Within the Extensions tab</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JWhOHUMd1jlsiVIvU_yvcJMMRQowgYg5" target="_blank">download here</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Name:</b> "Elbow" Dendrogram</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Authors:</b> G. Adashek & D.Flores</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Description:</b><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The βElbowβ Dendrogram creates a hierarchy based Parent-Child like structure with βlinks-armsβ that are bent at a 90Β° angle. This plugin can render a #measure element and is zoomable.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-864913767275635102018-06-15T14:14:00.000-04:002018-06-15T14:14:09.238-04:00Smart View 11.1.2.5.800 released!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so it is mid-June .. and we now have <b>Smart View version 11.1.2.5.800</b> as stated released in GA!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">per the documentation here are the listed new features a part of this release and the hyperlinks to go directly to the documentation for each</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=22259976#smartview_readme_book_2"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New Features in This Release</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=22259976#GUID-347B5097-888A-4C6C-A34B-355A39461370"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New Essbase Expense Type Option</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=22259976#GUID-0DB52AA4-7EF3-4841-AB5F-D75A12EFB3CE"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Display Varying Attributes in Ad Hoc Grids</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=22259976#GUID-F18919DC-3029-4F6A-9E79-0E4DA1988245"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Support for MDX Calculations for Aggregate Storage Databases</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=22259976#GUID-8A3D6BFF-DE23-4C30-A216-C964616C94EB"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New View Properties Button in Oracle BI EE Ribbon</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=22259976#GUID-C21A7FAC-2D14-44BE-BBE0-A900FB081A01"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enhanced Move Formatting Behavior</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=22259976#GUID-212D8D1E-2A97-4B59-9C99-189EEC6148B1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perform a Health Check On Your System</span></a></li>
</ul>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's take a look at one of the new features ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=22259976#GUID-212D8D1E-2A97-4B59-9C99-189EEC6148B1">Perform a Health Check On Your System</a> (for Smart View settings, Options, etc.)</b></span><div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I really like this feature being added!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So many times as a new user (new Smart View installation), a power user, an administrator, there are a number of settings that are or are not set by default.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Glad that there is now an easy way to be able to see the commonly asked settings all in 1 place to be able to update and/or edit-provide yourself.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This setting is found on the Main Smart View tab within the "? Help" dropdown menu as menu item</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">named <b><i>"Health Check"</i></b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9yWJNuQJw2OqofZIUoxbGoutE05xDwOV7Bb8IRnUxbrwnzRE7ZuygF0Ek0FzzSA7pwKLLBp_PrRRRDmibH8mzfixow-ZKGDlhz0C-CVFiFH9EFTBfOvBXuVPq0xQQ0QDWi6kGIZnvqiw/s1600/HealthCheck800.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9yWJNuQJw2OqofZIUoxbGoutE05xDwOV7Bb8IRnUxbrwnzRE7ZuygF0Ek0FzzSA7pwKLLBp_PrRRRDmibH8mzfixow-ZKGDlhz0C-CVFiFH9EFTBfOvBXuVPq0xQQ0QDWi6kGIZnvqiw/s640/HealthCheck800.png" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click on the menu item and you will see a Health Check diagnosis msg box that shows the Details as information, properties, settings, options are set on your local machine</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ2RpJU1cQZo-Syfj6qsq77QfQN03M7IgHXtMlmZtaoCXNpn-n5UE4wsvYEv2ovcvSTL8xw_eRcQntqxG3H0QwsbjqrkjMCT0lsZujdvl5uqBSyKX1BjxOeP5FUBALCAbj_GJ-ugciJyM/s1600/HealthCheck800detail.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ2RpJU1cQZo-Syfj6qsq77QfQN03M7IgHXtMlmZtaoCXNpn-n5UE4wsvYEv2ovcvSTL8xw_eRcQntqxG3H0QwsbjqrkjMCT0lsZujdvl5uqBSyKX1BjxOeP5FUBALCAbj_GJ-ugciJyM/s640/HealthCheck800detail.png" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you click on the <b><i>"Recommended Settings"</i></b> button on the bottom of the msg box the health check will provide another dialog box. In my case, this is a brand new VM .. as my prior VM melted, so none of the Timeout settings have been updated.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This time, no Google searching required or digging up the regedit file .. just 2-button clicks and the settings were updated! I didn't need to know the hex values, etc.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click "YES"</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT1Bl9QP_fRxQGFfO7VpVqd3tAeQgkbHgRn8FtPvg8FtKhu3xjL8Zm7l-W6h5I-mHVULkBf5hyLWZyhrhE72uudQm7is6IBuSYsb9LNLUnCMXpDf_JgN0SgMBxIjAaUhfT-mFc27O7_s4/s1600/HealthCheck800Timeupdate.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT1Bl9QP_fRxQGFfO7VpVqd3tAeQgkbHgRn8FtPvg8FtKhu3xjL8Zm7l-W6h5I-mHVULkBf5hyLWZyhrhE72uudQm7is6IBuSYsb9LNLUnCMXpDf_JgN0SgMBxIjAaUhfT-mFc27O7_s4/s640/HealthCheck800Timeupdate.png" width="640" /></a></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And with that .. I think this feature might cause 1 of my prior blog posts to become deprecated!!!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to the Oracle Smart View product management and development teams for implementing the suggestion :)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<u><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Side Note:</span></b></u></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We heard, were told, and saw slides at KSCOPE18 during the EPM Sunday Symposium session that Smart View and Office 365 support will be coming at some point <b><i>CY2018</i></b> as well as <b>Mac support</b>!!!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-10649508898560353122018-05-27T16:36:00.001-04:002018-05-27T16:37:15.870-04:00Smart View 11.1.2.5.800 coming soon!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A NEW version of Oracle Smart View for Office will be available in mid-June ..<br />
<br />
KSCOPE18 is about that time, would be nice to have the update prior to the conference π<br />
<br />
<br />
Here is the release note:<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b>Oracle Smart View for Office 11.1.2.5.800</b> will be available by mid-June. This version includes new features such as:</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Move Formatting behavior enhancement to notify you of performance impact</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Improved resolution on high-definition devices, such as Microsoft Surface Pro tablets</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>New Health Check, where you can view information about your system, and configure Smart View options and Windows Registry settings geared toward improving performance and reducing flickering</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
This release also fixes a number of defects.</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<br />
<br />
These updates feel very cryptic, not without mention to MS Surface Pro tablets and wish that it read Macbook Pro instead for a High Def device. Someday a Mac version will be available.Maybe?<br />
<br />
Health Check sounds fun. I wonder if this also includes the ability to regedit the 3 settings always needed to be added to first time users for timeout-fails.<br />
<br />
Happy Birthday to me today! π<br />
<br />
Can't wait for KSCOPE18 in 2-weeks!!!<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-38070492305299175382018-04-29T09:49:00.002-04:002018-04-29T09:49:44.717-04:00Spring Fever .. OAC .. Major League Baseball<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is that time of year again --</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when spring is upon us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the snow starts to melt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the birds chirp outside the window in the morning .. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the Major League Baseball season begins βΎ</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I am getting ready for presentations, I wanted to share a few neat visualizations .. a little bit of a sneak peak.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CAN'T WAIT for anyone who wants to attend to see the full finished product!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Custom Plugin CollapsibleTree</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>WITH </b>DATA (#measure)</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxP7GeO8kJ_-YDn7U6mXxgjzgqBSuMSlhvWBWcHin5GIIlEPGZpz4x2Xsps-j5_EbRj04DTpdWF-tE50TSELA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>WITHOUT </b>DATA (#measure)</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxRcO653o-khwizcCUbQf3EZCc6yNjQvJ3Bj6KF1eSz7Cd0v7JeINvLJnqMX1S7cX1w6qhMezHnPj8G50PEsQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is still one of my favorite visualizations!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DimPlayer is my favorite combo visualization!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now that the 2018 MLB season is underway, it is time to update the ALL_MLB_STATS Essbase cube with 2017 data :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A nice night & weekend little project is about to get started!! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stay tuned</span><br />
<br />
<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-70520126335969423192018-03-15T17:23:00.003-04:002018-03-15T17:23:51.976-04:00Selected to Present at KScope18!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am honored to be selected as a speaker-presenter x2 at KScope18!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year it will be in Florida at Disney World! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to the ODTUG communication, there were more than 1,000 abstracts submitted!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are the presentation titles and can't wait to attend!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Presentation Title (solo): Inside Out OAC Essbase & DV</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hope you like the disney pixar theme</span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Presentation Title (co-presenting with Gary Crisci): Save "The Beverage Company"! -- How to impress people with Smart View in PowerPoint</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And an Essbase classic or should i say a basic sample</span></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-39937600354919376432018-03-11T17:49:00.001-04:002018-03-11T17:49:09.610-04:00OAC - DV .. Plus BI via Smart View<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OAC - Essbase & DV .. plus BI via Smart View</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a few posts ago and I only mentioned it at the very end of this prior post</span><br />
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<a href="http://adashek-epm.blogspot.com/2017/11/oac-data-viz-bi-new-dbx-v12211108.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://adashek-epm.blogspot.com/2017/11/oac-data-viz-bi-new-dbx-v12211108.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That if you want to see the Visualizations in Smart View you had to open the Classic Home...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do you create .. a "classic" BI report/analysis</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, you can find the Classic BI as it is the link on the lower left of the Data Visualization panel pane</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Open Classic Home..."</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWFPuTseThn9m3Vupmz5sTuh3umVKKLZggUQcMuzafw45KEOV6ybp3SxvK6Yn4-TZlTSBZqjRKmgf2tTXXA-7EVfGmQrYT7YfG2Xn-V_IUEjLLDEsTud3FoK7ePBlhsqJWOyE3bFW0fX4/s1600/OAC_ClassicHome.png" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWFPuTseThn9m3Vupmz5sTuh3umVKKLZggUQcMuzafw45KEOV6ybp3SxvK6Yn4-TZlTSBZqjRKmgf2tTXXA-7EVfGmQrYT7YfG2Xn-V_IUEjLLDEsTud3FoK7ePBlhsqJWOyE3bFW0fX4/s640/OAC_ClassicHome.png" width="236" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once clicked, it should open a new browser window/tab.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And you are now in the "Classic" BI .. this is the same BI as it always was ..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">go ahead and start to create analysis and dashboards, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only a small point to note, this BI does let you know that you are still in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), meh</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoSJvWVjdqOIMaMBEz_qd7aUII_dT_n-1jsWUDbtqKQXfabkTJdJM98GXZJsKQ4FM1pNNFysUqG13IfZOREzlhXBfwbpBPNMg_UW2aAoOBoxcQhtaTd13_vNn9SckEqPJG7Jaygb0Cmy8/s1600/OAC_BI.png" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoSJvWVjdqOIMaMBEz_qd7aUII_dT_n-1jsWUDbtqKQXfabkTJdJM98GXZJsKQ4FM1pNNFysUqG13IfZOREzlhXBfwbpBPNMg_UW2aAoOBoxcQhtaTd13_vNn9SckEqPJG7Jaygb0Cmy8/s320/OAC_BI.png" width="320" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For this example I created a simple analysis with a Pivot Table visualization-type</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as of now there are only a few limited visualizations that are supported in Smart View, hope we see all of them some day soon ..</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-YamGx1hKqF1XrVQ_sxTkazbyEC1VLmyzuEPkBHU5OtLHVc1Tj0YXWwfW7mgw70xhXTYiouhzdJi8Npcuc9dmHni1lfgYLeWTIO41oQCCSCrI2U1xB3eVrfN6kJ2PWj_gIE_-Uly5REg/s1600/OAC_analysis.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-YamGx1hKqF1XrVQ_sxTkazbyEC1VLmyzuEPkBHU5OtLHVc1Tj0YXWwfW7mgw70xhXTYiouhzdJi8Npcuc9dmHni1lfgYLeWTIO41oQCCSCrI2U1xB3eVrfN6kJ2PWj_gIE_-Uly5REg/s400/OAC_analysis.png" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once created, it is time to see it via Smart View.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here again, it follows the same tried and true procedure of setting up a Smart View OBIEE connection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj81cek0HIlY3vuHlXEqoggYzJ7FoATsc8RnxHF-KuDqkE0zAgW3mir5yXbUOu51pKzqgozJMT7z3HV-MYqhpxm86Jv_3ZxEfu-NRVV-ap8tOEdEQB89ZoA2HRnFMkzyPdjIWlzEVqUgCM/s1600/OAC_BI_NewConnect.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj81cek0HIlY3vuHlXEqoggYzJ7FoATsc8RnxHF-KuDqkE0zAgW3mir5yXbUOu51pKzqgozJMT7z3HV-MYqhpxm86Jv_3ZxEfu-NRVV-ap8tOEdEQB89ZoA2HRnFMkzyPdjIWlzEVqUgCM/s400/OAC_BI_NewConnect.png" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">using the syntax: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://my.ip.address:80/analytics/jbips</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that the connection is created, login</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I attempt to login, I am reminded of the painful question, why is the Connection type named, Oracle BI space EE???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Moving on, by expanding the folder where you have saved your analysis, etc. you can now bring that in via Smart View</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDcwfo6X7xcN8aqvXIRdvPZLZvlJbqJI4Yp2nTAATe6L0ZIfS0nJzh46oBjfreEDT3Tmq9mTk-8inxhYh4XDFv7ulhmv6Ld6avjOvQQI051GGRlWbMsScHJ60De1g-_FGLY3LPxUpXUZo/s1600/OAC_BI_connectOBIEE.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDcwfo6X7xcN8aqvXIRdvPZLZvlJbqJI4Yp2nTAATe6L0ZIfS0nJzh46oBjfreEDT3Tmq9mTk-8inxhYh4XDFv7ulhmv6Ld6avjOvQQI051GGRlWbMsScHJ60De1g-_FGLY3LPxUpXUZo/s1600/OAC_BI_connectOBIEE.png" /></a></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-P8gOXzUaA1ZwBuAxYzCZA7tXj-at-DBsDIGf16CVZM67bmlmKMAuJv0YofahLy99nM5gpppSguH3XIOuBjv_y9QosRad9faJYV6hjgCS1lNV_hEOGS4JujHbik430YyPlaSK2OzblsI/s1600/OAC_BI_insertAllviews.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-P8gOXzUaA1ZwBuAxYzCZA7tXj-at-DBsDIGf16CVZM67bmlmKMAuJv0YofahLy99nM5gpppSguH3XIOuBjv_y9QosRad9faJYV6hjgCS1lNV_hEOGS4JujHbik430YyPlaSK2OzblsI/s400/OAC_BI_insertAllviews.png" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I selected to see all objects on 1-slide .. I mean worksheet as I am in Excel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And there you have it, OAC - Essbase/DV plus now a little bit of BI via Smart View.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Again, hope to see many many many more visualization types supported in Smart View soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until next time, stay safe in the cloud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>OAC - Essbase WRITEBACK IS ALIVE!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, the day has finally arrived, Essbase Writeback in the cloud is real .. and a thing ππ€π€π</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's get into the how-to and what it looks like.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But first, a BIG shout out to <a href="http://garycris.blogspot.in/" target="_blank">Gary Crisci</a> for being able to battle the patch frontier and slay the OAC demons!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OAC - Essbase patched to version 109 .. skipped right over 108 to specifically Version 12.2.1.1.109 - Build 126</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Steps to success</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Create an Essbase cube in OAC (thought that this step and a few others might be obvious ..)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Go to the Data Visualization Cloud - <a href="https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/data-visualization/library.html" target="_blank">Oracle Analytics Library</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/data-visualization/library.html</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find the Custom Plug-In: Essbase Write-Back plugin by Oracle</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click Download to Download the zip file</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Log into the OAC - DV/BI instance</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the panel, click Custom Plugins</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Upload the saved Custom Plugin from the step above, drag and drop or click "Upload Custom Plugin" and select the zip file</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click, "add domain"</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Navigate to Data Sources / Create / Connection / Oracle Essbase (Beta)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click 'Save'</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click Create .. Data Set ..</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Select the Newly created Connection</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Select the Essbase Cube that is a part of that Connection that you want</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click 'Add'</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You should see a notification "The Data Set was successfully saved."</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Select the cube you added as a Data Source of the "Essbase Server" above</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Create your visualization adding the dimensions .. ALL of the dimensions</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Select the "Essbase Writeback" Viz</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click 'Fetch'</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click the dropdown arrow for Application and make your selection</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click the dropdown arrow for Database and make your selection</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click 'OK'</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.59456269999998312.4764182 76.949115699999979 13.4667792 78.240009699999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-71708082528534740202017-12-10T11:15:00.002-05:002017-12-10T11:15:24.755-05:00Smart View Release 11.1.2.5.720 & More<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy to see another version of the Smart View for Office Add-in release! 11.1.2.5.720</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can go and <a href="http://patch%2026783864/" target="_blank">download the patch set update PSU 26783864 here</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the <a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=21765213" target="_blank">Readme</a> as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Documentation: <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/applications/smartview/720/index.html" target="_blank">Oracle Smart View for Office Documentation Release 11.1.2.5.720</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are a number of New Features added in this release, very exciting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take a look at the list:</span><br />
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<li><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=21765213#smart_view_11125720_readme_270" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-indent: -24px;">Improved MDX and Smart Query Management</a></li>
<li><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=21765213#smart_view_11125720_readme_264" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-indent: -24px;">Cascade from Multiple Dimensions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=21765213#smart_view_11125720_readme_265" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-indent: -24px;">Business Rule Template Support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=21765213#smart_view_11125720_readme_260" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-indent: -24px;">New and Enhanced VBA Functions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=21765213#smart_view_11125720_readme_267" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-indent: -24px;">HsGetValue Accepts Additional Data Types</a></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Based on the first update, and specifically about Smart Query, I am going to have to go back to the post that I have had pending as a draft for a long long time ..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But at the moment, what does this update look like?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This give you a better way to manage all queries, modify, rename, run, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When selecting multiple members for a single dimension in the POV, now when you decide to cascade the report, a new dialog box appears kindly asking not only about the 'multi-members' but also the additional dimensions!! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would be careful with this option,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you can see from the info stat that the number of sheets going to be cascaded for this is 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This slight modification is going to cascade 36!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After I clicked okay, my Windows machine was going haywire to say the least. There was flashing, cursor jitter, scroll bar shaking, the Excel window was '(Not Responding)' and turned black. There is good news. The queries all finally finished running and the workbook updated all 36 new query sheets and added them to the workbook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was something that as I was using the Cube Designer found interesting. I could create the Smart Lists from the wizard/workbook, create and load them into the cube, but not be able to easily validate that the lists looked as desired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[HsGetValue] - {syntax to be updated here}</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New Essbase Option for Preserving Comments and Unknown Members</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unknown members and comments for OAC users.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Extension Update Process has been streamlined!!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now when you go into Smart View / Options / Extensions a new dialog box</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">appears when you click the hyperlink "β οΈ <span style="color: blue;"><b>Check for Updates, New Installs, and Uninstalls</b></span>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is great! Now that I have established a connection I can use that or any other connections/locations to find updates. Select and click 'Get Updates'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In real time you will see the job running the check for updates, etc. the location used to check.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like these Smart View Extension 11.1.2.5.720 updates:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OracleBI EE!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smart Query</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Detailed blog posts to follow!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since it has been snowing now for a few days here where I live,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think it is appropriate to say officially that #WinterIsHere!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Have to say that I am really liking the OAC DV and the custom Plug-Ins that you can easily download and drag and drop the zip file!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I mentioned a few of them in my <a href="http://adashek-epm.blogspot.com/2017/11/oac-data-viz-bi-new-dbx-v12211108.html" target="_blank">prior post</a> with the Tree Viz and the Row Expander</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is another custom plug-in that is really fun to use, Dim Player</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Again, a few</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Easy Prep Steps:</span></b><br />
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<li><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Navigate using your favorite browser to -> https://www.oracle.com/solutions/business-analytics/data-visualization/library.html</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Click the 'Plug-ins' tab</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Find the Plug-in that you are interested in adding to your set of visualizations</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Download the Zip file</span></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here are a few tips to make sure that you are able to properly use this plug-in</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You need to have a Dimension with the Dimension Type = Time (required)</span><br />
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Years dimension is shown with a clock π<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4sUA5thlreUATzsEx-n2ybc_dj5SUfgXvF8NFJ_z3XkO26qbExsz0NQSiYB91bXB0il6wsWgRMHJDXAADBGgEGarvfS0neglv3AlN3A0eyg5-ww8QGGhabfWl6iZXf_V_53eL9zqeIvg/s1600/Screen+Shot+2017-11-18+at+12.40.20+PM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4sUA5thlreUATzsEx-n2ybc_dj5SUfgXvF8NFJ_z3XkO26qbExsz0NQSiYB91bXB0il6wsWgRMHJDXAADBGgEGarvfS0neglv3AlN3A0eyg5-ww8QGGhabfWl6iZXf_V_53eL9zqeIvg/s640/Screen+Shot+2017-11-18+at+12.40.20+PM.png" width="449" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Start creating your Project, select your dataset(source), visualization.. add measure(s) etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Next you want to navigate on the left menu column and click the vertical bar icon for Visualizations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Scroll to find your next viz to add, in this case DimPlayer, drag it onto your canvas</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2BsHkVRbiS0kd-0tJ5nzXUZXVEtP809Lhw4zsG4ktWqxHOhH_Gv17pFFA-2Xmbb054e4gQDElvuxliNRZcjj3ZjoIkME3Ute-wfg0SQd60lJB0eIcjwrhEcrG643z3lLjLqmA7AWfmoY/s1600/Screen+Shot+2017-11-18+at+1.08.02+PM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2BsHkVRbiS0kd-0tJ5nzXUZXVEtP809Lhw4zsG4ktWqxHOhH_Gv17pFFA-2Xmbb054e4gQDElvuxliNRZcjj3ZjoIkME3Ute-wfg0SQd60lJB0eIcjwrhEcrG643z3lLjLqmA7AWfmoY/s320/Screen+Shot+2017-11-18+at+1.08.02+PM.png" width="320" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The magic of this plug-in is that it uses the Time tagged dimension as the Play Axis</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3biLpG5ZxqOy8Ave-OrvxIJRYqduDrZYxozkib_J_CTLGs7sKFhPHUegJ8L5pSbC3hdHwK9sT2G6x286c7myf7Va7C62cBoFwD9TSn5HObm1W7g387n2L8iG6tw35xIrAEh0JqShNp80/s1600/Screen+Shot+2017-11-18+at+1.07.23+PM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3biLpG5ZxqOy8Ave-OrvxIJRYqduDrZYxozkib_J_CTLGs7sKFhPHUegJ8L5pSbC3hdHwK9sT2G6x286c7myf7Va7C62cBoFwD9TSn5HObm1W7g387n2L8iG6tw35xIrAEh0JqShNp80/s320/Screen+Shot+2017-11-18+at+1.07.23+PM.png" width="320" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In my MLB cube, I have the Years dimension, drag the desired Generation in as the PlayAxis</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But we are not ready. We need to ensure a few more items.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Open the 'menu' of this newly added viz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Click/check ' Use as Filter'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You also have the ability to change the speed of the refresh rate of the viz, just use the interval and key-in +/- the # of seconds you would prefer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You are now ready to Just.Hit.Play</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All of the MLB Homeruns hit over time in approx. 1min!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-89988689668555903602017-11-05T12:12:00.001-05:002017-11-18T13:22:17.609-05:00OAC Data Viz & BI + New DBX v12.2.1.1.108It has not been that long since the Halloween π» π π holiday season.<br />
So let's have a little trick or treat spirit to this blog post shall we.<br />
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And in that spirit, we will only be getting tips and treats and less on the tricks. π¬ π π«<br />
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Let's begin.<br />
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As per one of my prior posts, I was able to 'connect' OAC DV/BI to OAC -Essbase and the amazingly fun Major League Baseball cube (And Yes I owe a few of you a copy of the Oracle Cube Designer for Excel model)<br />
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<b><i>π¬ </i></b><b><i>Fun Fact: the format for these Workbooks is called DBX format (Structured Excel)</i></b><br />
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π It is also worth mentioning that there is also a New version of the <b>Cube Designer Extension</b> available to download and install; <b>12.2.1.1.108 Build 117</b><br />
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Moving on. OAC DV/BI<br />
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I will be using the MLB STATS cube that I created to share my examples.<br />
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I noticed that there are a number of Visualizations already available, nice, but there are also more Plug-ins that can be easily download/uploaded for your use as well.<br />
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Click 'Custom Plugins'<br />
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Either 'Upload Custom Plugin' or drag-and-drop the downloaded zip file into OAC<br />
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Time to create your New Project and add one of these newly added Custom Plugins<br />
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One of the ones that I recently got feedback "That is REALLY cool!" was the use of the 'Collapsible TreeViz' Plugin.<br />
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This Plugin does NOT require a #Measure! Take a look.<br />
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This example was for the MLB World Series matchup between the Dodgers and the Astros.<br />
Looks like the list of Teams aligned to the Active Franchises of the Dodgers is 9 and the Astros is 3.<br />
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This in my opinion IS REALLY COOL!<br />
Wonder what it would look like against DRM?!?! I might need to create that as a Data Source.<br />
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Another Custom Plugin that I added was 'RowExpander'<br />
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There are times in DV that I want to see my data easily in an expandable Tree View (Hierarchy). My dataset is naturally 'built' that way in Essbase. And I want an easy way to navigate my dataset accordingly.<br />
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To simplify my example, I filtered the data to only include Players that Last Names begin with 'AA'.<br />
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Notice that there is a 'carrot-arrow' symbol '>' next to each row member that is available for expansion. This makes me feel a little nostalgic and creating HFR reports .. checking the checkbox to 'Allow Expansion'. Maybe it is just me and the good ole days of learning to use it, and, well .. since it has stood the test of time of it's look and feel of 1997 .. But I would like to have HFR available in OAC to create highly structured and formatted reports, books and even batches, that is, at least for Essbase, Planning, or other EPM datasources created in OAC. One can only hope, although, HFR is now only Web version supported and no more desktop client installer (HFR desktop client install, you were my nemesis! Hope you rode off into the sunset of product installers well my friend). I digress.<br />
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So, for me the Player above with 755 Career Homeruns is obvious. Do you know who this MLB Player is?<br />
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Another Fun Fact in closing this post.<br />
In order to see my Viz/analysis via Smart View, I needed to create Reports using the Classic OBIEE Designer.<br />
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Only then was I able to create a Smart View connection, see the repository and add these objects into Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).<br />
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Until next time. Stay safe while using OAC. Your Alias Table(s) might not be π» π π π»<br />
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And it is a Sunday GAMEDAY with less than an hour before kick-off, so I better complete this short but loving post in time..</div>
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I was creating a few Ad-Hoc Essbase queries and wanted to take one of my analysis sheets and turn that into a nice dynamic Query Designer report.</div>
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So, I followed the steps that I normally do. I usually start with an Ad-Hoc Query first. Then let Smart View and the Query Designer do a bit of the heavy lifting and transform that sheet into a 'Query'. I applied the query and got the desired results that I wanted.</div>
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A part of my analysis required me to start over and so I went ahead and started deleting the worksheets from the workbook. When I was done, I went to save my work. Clicked Save. And then the error appeared..</div>
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Sometimes when working with Smart View, I have to admit, I am reminded of this wonderful Disney Movie, Inside Out and all of the emotions.</div>
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Good news is that it looks to only be a warning-suggestion. But it feels a bit sad or even angry that the Query Designer worksheets were missing. Sorry to upset you Smart View.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-36416059571508852272017-10-13T14:37:00.000-04:002017-11-18T13:21:10.453-05:00OAC Patch 17.3.5 - Version 12.2.1.1.107 Essbase & Cube Designer<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oracle Analytics Cloud Service (OACS) 17.3.5 is Available - <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/analytics-cloud/acsam/managing-services.html#GUID-C8228086-044D-4D81-A0C6-5F453DDDFE22" target="_blank">apply the latest patch</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This caveat to the latest patch was talked about a TON at OOW this year .. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Along with this patch was an update to the Cube Designer Extension</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Previous Cube Designer Extension - 12.2.1.1.106</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8tA-5mBNDxgMfdwh8rcd4wViTxOc6wIRy-ePCb2x_ZwxVzAVvhnMj__xyXr_30a8ruQep2V9zzT-VWEMhKCQH1Hzlfi8tqeeKKGNs2VOQ7v94x5n4jT0Qu6NE6l4LAbH-uzZODoQo5UE/s1600/CubeDesigner12211106upavail.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8tA-5mBNDxgMfdwh8rcd4wViTxOc6wIRy-ePCb2x_ZwxVzAVvhnMj__xyXr_30a8ruQep2V9zzT-VWEMhKCQH1Hzlfi8tqeeKKGNs2VOQ7v94x5n4jT0Qu6NE6l4LAbH-uzZODoQo5UE/s1600/CubeDesigner12211106upavail.png" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">New Cube Designer Extension - 12.2.1.1.107</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know that there have been a few others that have posted about how to do this but I don't think it would hurt to continue to share how to be able to set up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OAC - Essbase as a Data Source in OAC - DV</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is really all about creating two (2) Access Roles on the OAC - Essbase-side</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the Oracle Support document that is easy enough to walk through</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OAC : How to create connection to Essbase from Visual Analyzer (VA) in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) (</span><a href="https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=2265410.1" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Doc ID 2265410.1</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once the roles are created you are then able to set up OAC - Essbase as a data source in OAC - DV, pretty cool! Happy visualizing π π</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More posts on OAC DV coming soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My MLB Baseball Essbase cube in the cloud fun side project (Yes, that is what i consider something fun to work on nights and weekends when I am not doing work-work, creating dioramas, reading, listening to all sorts of Disney movies, songs, dancing, etc.) has been coming along very nicely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am looking forward to seeing what that data looks like in OAC DV now! π</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">12.2.1.1.106 -- Smart View Cube Designer Extension</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, just a few days ago I blogged about 105 (Cube Designer Extension 12.2.1.1.105)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and now ready to Update!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few email exchanges and a few days later, here we are with another version AND with updates to features.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let's take a look at a few of those additions</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you are building using the Cube Designer from scratch. When you click 'To Sheet' the Worksheets get created and the Outline Order is now auto populated, starting with the first dimension you typed into the Extension panel; Beginning with 1, 2, 3, etc.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you have started by downloading/copying the cube workbook and deleted the number ordering, you can simply click on the 'To Sheet' button and the worksheet will get the Outline Order Numbering added directly into the worksheet "Essbase.Cube".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now added to the Cube Designer workbook is the ability to change the application level configuration settings (essbase.cfg settings). These at the moment are added manually and are required in a similar syntax/format as Substitution Variables; meaning Setting Name and Value in side-by-side cells.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>via OAC Web (settings)</i></span></span><br />
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But onto the other fun that I have been having this weekend. A little Cube Designer carry over from the last blog post as well as getting an Application:Cube built in OAC - Essbase! :)<br />
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I wanted to share a few fun items I found while building and validating data and OAC - Essbase features. Let's take a look.<br />
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First is the button for Member Information, take a look..<br />
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Wait, there is no more Member Information button! :)<br />
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Pretty nice. You can edit the solve order directly from Smart View. Press the Edit button on the lower left. Make the desired change to the solve order. Click OK.<br />
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Now let's take a look what happens when the cursor is on a dimension/member cell<br />
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Looks the same as it used to before, all of the member information for that dimension or member.<br />
Information, Aliases, Attributes, Formula, UDA(s), etc.<br />
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If you are following the blog posts, maybe you are starting to see a trend or at least notice the cube that I am building .. it is a decent size cube (stats back to the first year in 1871) with the real data. And I am looking forward to more blog posts using this Essbase Cube in the Cloud with Data Visualization and BICS!<br />
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A new way to create and build Essbase cubes, is not just from Excel workbooks, but also with Smart View! :) This has been technically available and supported with recent versions going back in Smart View to version 11.1.2.5.620 mentioned in a <a href="http://adashek-epm.blogspot.com/2017/06/lowest-supported-oac-smart-view-version.html" target="_blank">prior post</a><br />
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So let me get this out of the way. The naming/numbering conventions are making me a little insane<br />
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Well, onto the geeky portion of the post that starts now. Hope you enjoy the little bit of fun I added while working on this post.<br />
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<i>Note: I already had done the download and installation of the latest version of Smart View 11.1.2.5.710 that recently came out in August-2017. Plus the Smart View Cube Designer Extension was previously installed and enabled</i><br />
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Time to launch Excel 2016 32bit. Done.<br />
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Let's verify the Version of Smart View<br />
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Go to Smart View .. Options ..<br />
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AND NOW .. for the main attraction. Cube Designer.<br />
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Essbase Cloud Cube Designer. Slightly different name. Must be a version thing mentioned earlier ;)<br />
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And there you have it.<br />
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But we are not done just yet.<br />
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Why don't we continue to see what happens when we step through the extension window 'wizard' to build a cube.<br />
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Tabs across the top of the extension. Cube, Settings, Dimensions, Data, Calc<br />
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Add (enter) an 'Application Name'<br />
Add (enter) a 'Cube Name'<br />
Dimensions: where it says in <i><b>italic-grey</b></i> font '<i><b>Add Dimension</b></i>' start typing your desired dimension name, hit enter/return and keep repeating until you have all your desired dimensions.<br />
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Pretty easy and straight forward so far.<br />
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Now at this point or really any point from now on you can click on the button 'To Sheet'<br />
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this little button starts the magic to begin or adds the magic once you have begun to build your cube in the workbook .. click it and see<br />
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Pretty slick so far.<br />
And there are my wizards, I mean Dimensions to the worksheet named 'Essbase.Cube'<br />
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Next is 'Settings' or 'Cube.Settings'<br />
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As is, the Cube designer wizard builds a BSO cube as the default.<br />
But that can be easily changed by manually typing ASO into the cell changing the Application Type manually or by simply unchecking the checkbox 'BSO (Block Storage Outline) and clicking our friend the button 'To Sheet'<br />
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Moving onto Dimensions. The Dimension names were added on the 'Cube' tab but the tab 'Dimensions' is now where the property types, build method and mode, generation information (used for Drill-Through), along with the fields that are desired for use in the build process<br />
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And don't forget about any UDAs that you might want to add, provide how many, or the Alias Table you want to use, check the checkbox<br />
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Next, time to add the magic potion .. I mean Data<br />
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Provide the name for your data. This is probably best to think of your data in datasets.<br />
Actual. Budget. Forecast, etc. or in my example, Magic Potions<br />
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Onto the last tab in the wizard, Spells .. I mean Calc<br />
Add any calcs as needed!<br />
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Now that you have stepped through the wizard. I want to look at 1 item quickly before this post is done. Dimensions. And specifically adding members and viewing them in a Hierarchy GUI TreeView fashion. Like EAS or for those still using AppMan (Application Manager and I know you are out there.. I have seen you for myself and nothing wrong if it still works..)<br />
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The Cube Designer on the ribbon has a button 'View Hierarchy'<br />
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For those that are familiar with cubes, multidimensional, non-relational (field-record-row) data. Maybe this is not entirely needed but a part of my cube builds it is nice to see from time to time what the resulting outline is going to look like..<br />
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So in the Dimension that I wanted to create, Harry_Potter I started to define what that hierarchy was going to be .. and added a few members manually.. take a look what happened when I clicked the 'View Hierarchy' button on the ribbon, I can see what the hierarchy looks like and even make edits from this GUI window, very nice!<br />
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I would like to add that it is nice to see the TreeView of the Hierarchy and the features that are there in this version. In future versions of the Cube designer, it would be nice most if not all of the dimension/member property information. Including the child/descendant count, Generation # & Level #, Member Formula(s), the UDA(s), just to name a few.<br />
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So that is the OAC - Essbase Cube Designer Wizard in a nutshell .. <a href="https://youtu.be/jKMK3XGO27k" target="_blank">look, this is me in a nutshell</a> (Austin Powers) π<br />
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More blogging soon on the creation of the cube in OAC.<br />
And then onto DV (Data Visualization) and maybe a little bit BICS!!!<br />
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<i>p.s. Yes, I was in a car accident. Head on collision. Only me in my car. Only her in her car. As told to me on the accident site and also states in the police report. She was tired and fell asleep at the wheel. YIKES!! A LITTLE COMMON SENSE PEOPLE.. as a result >this guy< got a Broken Right Foot. Had Surgery 1-week later. Dr. says x-rays looked good 2-weeks after surgery. Surgery cast off, stitches out. Walking boot, YEAH.. but a big boo since i am still non-weight-bearing :( at least until my next doctor visit on September 1st.. wow, that still feels like a long ways away .. </i><br />
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<i>but I guess that just means more time on the nights and weekends to research on fun EPM and BI things going on, catch up on other fun things at work and oh what the hay.. download the free trial of the HBO NOW app on my iPad and start, yes start, watching Game of Thrones #GOT.. Season 1 done. Season 2 done. And just started on Season 3! Don't spoil it for me .. I do want to catch up to this season :)</i><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-62130235141292483092017-08-18T22:00:00.001-04:002017-08-18T22:01:31.342-04:00Smart View Release 11.1.2.5.710<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ah, yes, another version of Smart View for Office released .. 11.1.2.5.710</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I tweeted about it the other day.. the zip file <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/epm/downloads/smart-view-1112x-2412371.html" target="_blank">here</a> that downloads from OTN is nice enough to tell you which version you are downloading</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but unfortunately after the unzip the installer still leaves you unsure as it is still the SmartView.exe</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, onto other news.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The documentation for this version can be found here -> https://docs.oracle.com/applications/smartview/710/index.html</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And let's see what new features there are</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Change the Solve Order of Members in a Calculation</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Calculation Trace</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Audit Trail</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well then, all new features for OAC! Guess I know what this guy with a broken foot recovering from surgery and still not able to walk is going to be spending time doing this weekend ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.. a song starts playing in my head .. Are you down with OAC .. yeah you know me... might have dated myself. ENJOY!</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1699540956788037380.post-67526766203206635102017-08-04T15:40:00.002-04:002017-08-18T21:18:20.344-04:00Kscope17 Gary Interviews Gary About "The SV++ Utility Ribbon"<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I still enjoy being able to look back at how much Kscope each year has to offer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">This year I was asked to be interviewed at the Social Media Lounge by none other then Oracle ACE Gary Crisci, ODTUG Board Treasurer. And at the time of the interview I was not, but while at Kscope17 in San Antonio I was honored to be accepted into the Oracle ACE program! I too also volunteer with ODTUG as the EPM Community Leader. Gary C. and I talk about the Smart View ribbon utility SV++.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why the ribbon/toolbar came to be</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Where did it start from</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What are a few features, functions, etc.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How can you build your own?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Or just download a fully developed solution <a href="http://adashek-epm.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_24.html" target="_blank">here</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">https://youtu.be/B8v8KMBN8Dk</span><br />
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