OBIEE Creating Bookmark and or Prompted URL

By default the Create Bookmark Link is enabled in the dashboard page options menu:

This can be control in the instanceconfig.xml file:

<Dashboard>
  <EnableBookmarkURL>True</EnableBookmarkURL>
</Dashboard> 

Setting this to false gives:

When selecting Create Bookmark Link you get an URL giving back the same prompt settings.

An other option is creating a Prompted URL. This stores the value of the used prompts in the URL (Like goUrl) and allows you to edit the values.

This functionality is enabled in the instanceconfig.xml file:

<Dashboard>
   <EnablePromptedURL>True</EnablePromptedURL>
</Dashboard>

The URL will look something like:

http://vmobiee:9704/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&_scid=sccbLaQP0rs&PortalPath=%2Fshared%2FSample%20Sales%2F_portal%2F01%20Ranks%20%26%20Toppers&Page=11%20Multi%20Dim%20TopNs&Action=Navigate&col1=1&val1="7"&col2=%22D0%20Time%22.%22T05%20Per%20Name%20Year%22&val2="2007"&col3=%22D4%20Product%22.%22P04%20%20Brand%22&val3="Brand%203"

Before sending the URL to somebody you can "edit" the prompt values somewhat. If you want to this programmatically use the goUrl functionality.

You can set the "lifespan" of the bookmark with the <BookmarkExpirationDays> tags:

<Dashboard>
    <EnableBookmarkURL>True</EnableBookmarkURL>
    <EnablePromptedURL>True</EnablePromptedURL>
    <BookmarkExpirationDays>30</BookmarkExpirationDays>
</Dashboard>

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