VMWARE connection problems

I noticed when connection a vmware to certain networks the network doesn’t like a loopback adapter running on the vmware. Although you will get a valid IP it can’t connect to anything….

Disabling the loopback did the trick.

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OBIEE101 I’m still around ;-)

Thanks everybody for the interest in my whereabouts.

Yep, I'm still around. Just very very busy on a huge OWB migration.

Hope to be back soon we some OBIEE stuff.

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BIP Quartz tables

On a 11g BIP only install you can use the QUARTZ scheduler. The scheduler is fed from the XMLP_SCHED_JOB table from the repository. It will seed either the QRTZ_SIMPLE_TRIGGERS (one off jobs) or QRTZ_CRON_TRIGGERS (repeating jobs). This will feed the QRTZ_TRIGGERS table which controls the next execution time. The actual job is in the QRTZ_JOB_DETAILS table.

You can inject jobs directly into these tables. Remember that all DateTimes are in QUARTZ_TICKS calculated back to GMT time. A ms-sql conversion function DateTime to Ticks can be foud here. From Ticks to DateTime is this one.

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BIP11g Users and Roles

Did some work on a 11g BI publisher only install recently. Opposite to OBIEE11g you can still add users directly into BIP. Be sure to give them the right roles and sync it with your weblogic security realm.

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OBIEE11g / BIP Quartz Scheduler

Seems that Oracle is using there own standard for the Date Time format in the BIP quartz scheduler. They are not using standard ticks (starting on 1-jan-0001) but a milliseconds count starting on 1-jan-1970. So 1-Jan-2012 = 1325376000000. IE: a whole day is 86400000 ticks.

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OBIEE10g Auto Suggest Prompt

A client asked me if I could create an auto suggest prompt for him. (ie: Google Style Prompt). Basically he wanted an edit box prompt which would fill an suggestion box which he could tab trough to make the right selection.

Since this isn’t a standard 10g functionality I wrote some JavaScript to make it happen. But I didn’t reinvent the wheel ! The people at jQuery already did the bases, I simple adapted it for usage in OBIEE 10g.

1. Download the jQuery UI package here. Install it in your b_mozilla directory’s (or other webserver dirs you use).

2. Download the jQuerySetup from here.

3. Add the setup script to a textbox on your dashboard page:

Alter files locations if needed, don’t forget the Contains HTML Markup checkbox.

4. Add a dropdown prompt to your dashboard page.

5. Create a javascript file in your b_mozilla directory’s called: autocomplete.js

function SetAutoComplete(PromptColumn){
    var domNode = document;
    var tagName = '*';
    var tags = domNode.getElementsByTagName(tagName);
    var y ="";           
    for(i=0; i<tags.length; i++){
   
    if (tags[i].className  == 'GFPFilter') {
        if (tags[i].getAttribute('gfpbuilder').indexOf(PromptColumn) != -1)
        {   
            y = tags[i].getAttribute('sid')           
        };

        $(
        function()
        {
                $( "#"+y ).combobox();           
        });
        };   
    };
};

6. After the dropdown prompt add a textbox with:

<script src="res/b_mozilla/autocomplete.js" language="javascript"> </script>
<script language="javascript"> 
    SetAutoComplete('C1  Cust Name');
</script>

7. Add your report and run the dashboard:

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